Historic USGS Moment Tensor Solutions

Magnitude 5.1 TONGA
Monday, November 12, 2012 at 14:58:14 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
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 2009 10 19 07:41:38.24 -15.437 -172.976 PDE| 10.0 5.8 5.4  17 |5.81 26  32 -0.86  0 122 -4.95 63 212|122 18  -90 302 72  -90| 70 GS              
 2009 10 19 22:49:38.41 -15.360 -172.264 PDE|                  |     15 216                    38 114|160 75  -40 262 52 -161|    GS              
 2009 11 01 21:28:58.94 -15.505 -173.753 PDE|108.0 5.8 5.9  17 |6.36 44 250 -1.08 18 359 -5.28 39 105|358 87   72 260 18  171| 66 GS              
 2009 12 11 12:33:39.04 -21.056 -174.448 PDE| 11.0 5.6 2.8  17 |2.21 80  47  0.89  8 209 -3.09  2 299| 39 43  103 202 48   78| 42 GS              
 2009 12 25 22:04:26.98 -15.963 -173.059 PDE| 47.0 5.6 2.8  17 |2.67 41 198  0.16 38 334 -2.84 24  85|326 80   51 224 41  164| 89 GS              
 2009 12 26 21:23:27.30 -17.299 -176.941 PDE| 17.0 5.5 2.1  17 |1.85 12 280  0.40 75  74 -2.25  6 189| 55 85   13 324 77  175| 64 GS              
 2010 02 09 01:03:44.44 -15.053 -173.492 PDE| 14.0 5.8 6.0  17 |6.07 34 321 -0.12 39 196 -5.95 31  75| 18 89  130 110 40    2| 96 GS              
 2010 02 13 02:34:28.86 -21.902 -174.767 PDE| 11.0 6.1 1.6  18 |1.30 67 255  0.47 18  35 -1.76 13 130| 25 61   69 243 35  123| 47 GS              
 2010 02 22 05:08:49.03 -21.511 -173.778 PDE| 29.0 5.7 3.9  17 |3.29 70  67  1.03  7 177 -4.31 18 269| 11 28  105 174 64   82| 52 GS              
 2010 04 10 16:54:24.25 -20.114 -176.223 PDE|273.0 6.0 1.1  18 |1.03 50 301  0.14 17 188 -1.17 33  86| 12 81  108 128 20   28| 76 GS              
 2010 04 21 17:20:29.11 -15.271 -173.219 PDE| 31.0 6.1 1.6  18 |1.64 18 239 -0.15 51 124 -1.49 32 341|113 81 -142  16 53  -11| 82 GS              
 2010 09 04 08:52: 4.10 -17.368 -173.999 PDE| 71.0 6.1 1.8  18 |2.08 61 112 -0.66 25 320 -1.41 11 224|286 40   49 156 61  119| 37 GS              
 2010 09 06 07:24:35.23 -18.314 -175.205 PDE|212.0 5.5 2.0  17 |1.44 21 135  0.86 11  40 -2.30 65 285|246 25  -63  36 68 -102| 25 GS              
 2010 09 16 01:54:40.29 -16.031 -173.960 PDE| 84.0 5.8 5.5  17 |6.11 44 116 -1.42 18   8 -4.69 41 262|283 18    5 188 88  108| 54 GS              
 2010 10 06 19:43:38.46 -17.818 -173.989 PDE| 75.0 5.7 5.3  17 |5.55 25 240 -0.44 27 344 -5.10 51 115|172 75  -61 287 32 -151| 84 GS              
 2010 10 12 12:02:55.58 -20.425 -174.065 PDE|  6.0 5.9 9.0  17 |8.31 65 292  1.31  3  28 -9.62 25 119| 27 70   87 215 21   98| 73 GS              
 2010 10 16 13:27:45.69 -20.460 -173.916 PDE|  9.0 5.6 3.4  17 |3.15 73 308  0.45  3 209 -3.61 17 118| 31 62   93 204 28   85| 75 GS              
 2010 10 16 20:08:30.07 -20.414 -173.846 PDE|  5.0 5.9 9.5  17 |0.89 78 259  0.11 11  48 -1.00  6 139| 39 52   76 241 40  107| 78 GS              
 2010 11 03 23:34:42.48 -20.466 -174.280 PDE|                  |     62 256                    10 146| 35 60   60 264 41  131|    GS              
 2010 12 18 22:24:18.00 -14.131 -173.306 PDE| 27.0 5.6 3.0  17 |3.18 42 205 -0.43 33  79 -2.74 30 326|263 83  124   3 34   12| 73 GS              

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