Historic USGS Moment Tensor Solutions

Magnitude 5.1 SOUTHEAST OF LOYALTY ISLANDS
Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 09:06:26 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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 2008 04 28 18:33:34.20 -19.941  168.953 PDE| 35.0 6.3 3.5  18 |3.37 83 340  0.21  6 158 -3.59  0 248|345 45   99 152 46   81| 88 GS              
 2008 04 28 20:26:53.11 -20.238  168.824 PDE|  7.0 5.9 8.9  17 |9.14  8  10 -0.42 18 102 -8.72 69 256| 80 40 -119 296 56  -68| 91 GS              
 2008 05 01 04:57:50.19 -19.471  168.878 PDE| 35.0 5.6 3.1  17 |2.76 78 341  0.57 11 143 -3.33  3 234|134 49   75 336 43  107| 66 GS              
 2008 09 08 03:03:15.93 -19.964  169.108 PDE| 34.0 6.1 1.9  18 |1.55 81 145  0.53  7 343 -2.07  2 253|335 43   78 171 48  101| 49 GS              
 2008 09 12 16:44:30.75 -21.682  170.471 PDE|103.0 5.8 5.6  17 |5.74 39 323 -0.20 38  94 -5.54 27 208| 89 83   51 350 39  168| 93 GS              
 2008 10 02 23:28: 9.12 -23.019  169.861 PDE|  5.0 5.8 6.0  17 |5.78  1  25  0.48 19 294 -6.26 70 118|134 47  -63 277 49 -116| 85 GS              
 2008 11 23 08:58:18.06 -22.434  171.322 PDE| 33.0 5.5 2.6  17 |2.62 27 316 -0.12 45  78 -2.50 31 207|261 87  -45 353 46 -176| 91 GS              
 2009 01 15 07:27:20.29 -22.352  170.635 PDE| 33.0 6.4 4.5  18 |4.64 75  39 -0.35  0 131 -4.29 14 221|313 31   91 131 59   89| 85 GS              
 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 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 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 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 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 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              
 2010 12 26 02:13:37.68 -19.616  168.284 PDE|  3.0 6.0 1.1  18 |1.16 39  74 -0.05 12 335 -1.11 49 231|220 13  -25 334 85 -102| 91 GS              
 2010 12 29 06:54:19.64 -19.661  168.140 PDE|                  |     43  85                    47 265|355 88  -90 175  2  -90|    GS              

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