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Magnitude 2.9 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION

Tuesday, July 03, 2007 at 16:36:59 UTC

Historic USGS Moment Tensor Solutions

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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 1985 03 16 14:54: 0.72  17.013  -62.448 PDE| 16.0 6.4 5.5  18 |5.24  1 345  0.57 85 239 -5.81  5  75|120 86   -2 210 88 -176| 80 GS              
 1989 06 18 14:06:28.83  17.761  -68.811 PDE| 70.0 5.6 3.4  17 |3.39  6  82  0.06 59 182 -3.45 31 348|129 64 -161  31 73  -27| 97 GS              
 1990 02 21 18:20:14.55  16.903  -62.326 PDE|                  |     50  80                    40 260|350  5   90 170 85   90|    GS              
 1996 09 24 11:42:18.87  15.191  -61.443 PDE|136.0 5.8 5.7  17 |6.58 11 163 -1.72 42 263 -4.86 46  62|214 50 -151 105 68  -43| 48 GS              
 1998 12 08 02:32:57.82  18.819  -64.046 PDE| 18.0 5.4 1.4  17 |1.40 16 168  0.02 22 265 -1.42 62  44|229 35 -131  96 65  -65| 97 GS              
 1999 12 20 10:43: 0.90  17.312  -61.705 PDE| 34.0 5.4 1.5  17 |1.27 38 305  0.52 43 169 -1.78 24  55| 96 44   12 357 82  133| 42 GS              
 2000 10 27 19:02:52.87  17.598  -61.194 PDE|  6.0 5.6 2.9  17 |3.21 49 270 -0.58  6   6 -2.63 41 101|240  7  144   6 86   84| 64 GS              
 2000 10 30 03:07:10.06  17.637  -61.193 PDE|  5.0 5.8 6.6  17 |6.63 52 244 -0.04  2 152 -6.59 38  61|138  7   75 332 83   92| 99 GS              
 2001 09 25 23:16:54.92  17.016  -61.415 PDE| 38.0 5.4 1.5  17 |1.50 79 314  0.01 11 150 -1.52  3  59|138 43   74 339 49  104| 99 GS              
 2001 10 16 15:27:27.70  19.355  -64.886 PDE|  5.0 5.6 3.0  17 |3.22 42 249 -0.40  9 151 -2.83 47  52| 46  9  -14 151 88  -99| 75 GS              
 2001 10 17 11:29: 9.92  19.354  -64.932 PDE|  4.0 6.0 1.1  18 |1.19 47 244 -0.12  2 151 -1.07 43  59|110  3   48 331 88   92| 80 GS              
 2003 06 30 00:07:27.66  17.457  -61.140 PDE| 19.0 5.6 3.6  17 |3.62  7 267  0.03 57 167 -3.65 32   1| 39 63  -20 139 73 -151| 98 GS              
 2004 11 21 11:41: 7.76  15.679  -61.706 PDE|  6.0 6.3 3.2  18 |3.10 10  56  0.16  1 147 -3.26 80 242|145 35  -92 327 55  -89| 90 GS              
 2004 11 21 18:53: 2.66  15.721  -61.762 PDE| 13.0 5.3 1.0  17 |0.99  6  44  0.07  7 134 -1.05 81 277|125 40 -102 320 51  -80| 87 GS              
 2005 02 14 18:05:59.32  15.775  -61.744 PDE|  7.0 5.8 7.1  17 |6.44 12  62  1.39  4 331 -7.82 77 223|158 33  -82 328 58  -95| 64 GS              

Latest USGS Fast Moment Tensor Solutions

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

 


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