Historic USGS Moment Tensor Solutions

Magnitude 4.5 LOYALTY ISLANDS
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 at 00:15:10 UTC

Historic Moment Tensor Solutions World Location
Major Tectonic Boundaries: Subduction Zones -purple, Ridges -red and Transform Faults -green

The most recent (20 or less) USGS Moment Tensor Solutions are shown.
Data from the Source Parameter Database.

                        E P I C E N T E R   |          MOMENT  |    P R I N C I P A L  A X E S       |N O D A L  P L A N E S | 
     DATE    TIME (UTC)   LAT      LONG  SRC|DEPTH     VAL  EX |     T            N            P     |     1           2     | %  SRC
  YR  MO DA HR MN SEC     deg      deg      |  km  Mw     Nm   |VAL  PL AZM  VAL  PL AZM  VAL  PL AZM|STK DP SLIP STK DP SLIP| DC
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 2009 01 19 03:35:18.84 -22.596  170.911 PDE|  7.0 6.4 4.8  18 |5.51 59 359 -2.33 13 113 -3.17 26 210|331 22  129 110 73   76| 15 GS              
 2009 01 21 17:08:42.99 -22.689  171.043 PDE| 21.0 5.9 9.5  17 |8.90 74  26  1.08  1 292 -9.99 15 202|291 30   88 113 60   91| 78 GS              
 2009 05 29 06:20:14.61 -17.026  168.329 PDE| 13.0 5.6 3.2  17 |3.11 12  17  0.17 72 149 -3.29 12 284| 61 73 -180 331 90  -17| 90 GS              
 2009 06 02 02:17: 3.51 -17.757  167.949 PDE|                  |     60  75                    30 255|165 75   90 345 15   90|    GS              
 2009 06 04 17:10: 3.67 -17.735  167.762 PDE|  6.0 5.5 2.4  17 |2.55 56  78 -0.27  1 170 -2.28 33 260|356 12   96 170 78   89| 79 GS              
 2009 06 05 21:16:55.58 -17.429  167.721 PDE|  7.0 5.7 3.9  17 |4.02 65  96 -0.29  3 359 -3.73 24 267|351 21   81 181 69   93| 86 GS              
 2009 06 09 05:11: 4.51 -22.685  171.469 PDE| 14.0 5.4 1.4  17 |1.23 72 344  0.30  6  93 -1.53 16 185| 91 62   83 285 29  103| 61 GS              
 2009 06 12 09:44:15.06 -17.611  167.812 PDE| 14.0 6.0 1.1  18 |0.93 62 134  0.30 20 358 -1.23 17 262|324 33   51 188 65  112| 51 GS              
 2009 07 16 17:59:36.10 -17.534  167.721 PDE|  4.0 5.8 6.2  17 |6.33 76  47 -0.25  9 179 -6.08 10 271| 13 36  106 173 56   79| 92 GS              
 2009 07 26 23:01:31.27 -17.755  168.089 PDE| 28.0 5.7 4.8  17 |4.67 33  83  0.19  3 350 -4.86 56 254|189 12  -71 350 79  -94| 92 GS              
 2009 08 21 11:15:39.03 -22.539  171.239 PDE|  3.0 5.7 4.3  17 |4.60 54   7 -0.66  3 103 -3.94 34 195|304 11  111 102 80   86| 71 GS              
 2009 10 11 03:12:13.47 -22.000  170.248 PDE|  5.0 5.9 8.2  17 |8.07 13 335  0.33 62  92 -8.40 23 238| 19 63 -172 285 83  -27| 92 GS              
 2009 11 08 15:46: 9.22 -16.008  167.993 PDE|174.0 5.5 2.0  17 |2.18 42 148 -0.37  9  50 -1.81 46 310|309  9  -11  50 88  -99| 66 GS              
 2009 12 09 09:46: 3.30 -22.150  170.963 PDE| 46.0 6.4 5.3  18 |5.36 47 317 -0.04 41 122 -5.32  7 218|346 52  147  98 64   43| 99 GS              
 2010 01 24 18:15: 9.27 -18.513  167.897 PDE| 15.0 5.6 3.1  17 |3.04  1 324  0.20 58  57 -3.24 31 233| 14 67 -158 275 70  -24| 88 GS              
 2010 06 09 23:23:17.35 -18.597  169.485 PDE| 20.0 6.0 1.2  18 |0.98  4 216  0.35 72 111 -1.33 16 308| 83 82 -165 351 75   -8| 47 GS              
 2010 08 03 22:30:23.80 -22.562  171.502 PDE| 16.0 5.4 1.6  17 |1.82 80  78 -0.43  9 259 -1.39  0 169|250 46   77  89 46  103| 53 GS              
 2010 08 10 05:23:44.98 -17.541  168.069 PDE|                  |     70  50                    20 230|140 65   90 320 25   90|    GS              
 2010 09 08 11:37:31.89 -20.671  169.818 PDE|  6.0 6.2 2.4  18 |2.22 11 253  0.35 76 103 -2.56  6 344| 29 77    4 299 86  167| 73 GS              
 2010 11 02 23:08: 7.10 -19.190  168.560 PDE| 31.0 5.5 2.0  17 |1.20 57  96  1.12 30 299 -2.32 11 203|261 44   42 138 63  126|  3 GS              

Latest USGS Fast Moment Tensor Solutions

Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver