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Magnitude 6.1 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS

Tuesday, July 17, 2007 at 09:39:34 UTC

Global CMT Project Moment Tensor Solution


July 17, 2007, SOUTH OF FIJI ISLANDS, MW=6.1

Goran Ekstrom
Meredith Nettles

CENTROID-MOMENT-TENSOR  SOLUTION
GCMT EVENT:     C200707170939A  
DATA: II IU CU IC GE 
L.P.BODY WAVES: 84S, 186C, T= 40
MANTLE WAVES:   69S, 109C, T=125
SURFACE WAVES:  96S, 212C, T= 50
TIMESTAMP:      Q-20070717204239
CENTROID LOCATION:
ORIGIN TIME:      09:39:31.7 0.1
LAT:26.17S 0.01;LON:177.65W 0.01
DEP: 16.9  0.5;TRIANG HDUR:  2.7
MOMENT TENSOR: SCALE 10**25 D-CM
RR=-0.290 0.012; TT= 0.147 0.012
PP= 0.143 0.013; RT= 0.241 0.033
RP=-0.057 0.033; TP= 1.700 0.012
PRINCIPAL AXES:
1.(T) VAL=  1.853;PLG= 3;AZM=315
2.(N)      -0.264;    80;     66
3.(P)      -1.589;     9;    225
BEST DBLE.COUPLE:M0= 1.72*10**25
NP1: STRIKE=  0;DIP=81;SLIP=-176
NP2: STRIKE=270;DIP=86;SLIP=  -9

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