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Magnitude 4.2 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS

Saturday, April 04, 2009 at 17:01:27 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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 2006 07 03 13:40: 0.96 -20.485 -176.109 PDE|205.0 5.4 1.8  17 |1.80 25 115  0.01  4  23 -1.80 65 284|214 21  -78  21 70  -94| 99 GS              
 2006 07 18 16:02:16.79 -20.084 -178.434 PDE|591.0 5.7 4.8  17 |5.56 27 150 -1.52  1  59 -4.04 62 327|243 18  -86  59 73  -91| 45 GS              
 2006 08 15 23:53:46.77 -21.189 -176.250 PDE|156.0 6.1 2.1  18 |2.05 34 127  0.04 35   9 -2.09 37 248|275 35   -3   8 88 -125| 96 GS              
 2006 09 03 04:26:29.41 -21.801 -175.146 PDE| 34.0 5.6 3.2  17 |3.17 61 197  0.13 28  32 -3.30  6 298|  1 46   49 232 57  124| 92 GS              
 2006 10 08 13:50:24.11 -23.554 -175.271 PDE|  8.0 5.8 6.2  17 |6.07 16 312  0.35  2  42 -6.43 74 141| 38 29  -95 224 61  -87| 89 GS              
 2006 11 24 19:55: 1.04 -23.422 -175.572 PDE|  5.0 5.7 5.3  17 |5.22 54 317  0.25  1 227 -5.46 36 136|223  9   87  47 81   91| 91 GS              
 2007 01 08 20:52:20.64 -18.580 -177.847 PDE|410.0 6.3 3.6  18 |3.53 41 249  0.07 48  81 -3.61  6 344| 35 57   28 289 67  144| 96 GS              
 2007 02 05 09:55:51.10 -20.609 -175.650 PDE| 22.0 5.7 5.3  17 |5.34 10 264 -0.15 78 109 -5.18  5 354| 39 79    4 309 86  169| 94 GS              
 2007 05 06 21:11:52.50 -19.401 -179.354 PDE|679.0 6.4 5.6  18 |6.11 73  58 -0.95 14 202 -5.16  9 295| 41 38  113 193 56   73| 69 GS              
 2007 05 06 22:01: 8.92 -19.406 -179.315 PDE|682.0 6.1 1.5  18 |1.51 74  38  0.01 13 184 -1.51  9 276| 22 38  112 175 55   74| 99 GS              
 2007 05 07 20:32:32.33 -21.213 -178.619 PDE|555.0 5.7 4.2  17 |4.26  9 176 -0.07 14  84 -4.20 73 298|283 38  -67  74 55 -107| 97 GS              
 2007 05 13 11:26:42.91 -19.513 -179.329 PDE|679.0 5.8 6.4  17 |6.99 72  58 -1.20 14 200 -5.79 11 292| 40 36  114 190 57   73| 66 GS              
 2007 08 11 18:04:53.11 -22.264 -179.493 PDE|602.0 5.6 3.4  17 |3.23 34 102  0.45  4 195 -3.67 55 291|175 11 -110  16 79  -86| 75 GS              
 2007 10 08 18:37:53.70 -20.706 -177.398 PDE|323.0 5.7 5.2  17 |5.40 26 202 -0.42  2 110 -4.98 63  14|110 72  -93 300 19  -81| 84 GS              
 2007 11 19 00:52:12.51 -21.185 -178.752 PDE|545.0 6.3 4.0  18 |4.09 10 181 -0.09 11  89 -4.00 74 311|286 36  -70  81 56 -104| 96 GS              
 2007 12 09 07:28:20.82 -25.996 -177.514 PDE|180.0 7.7 4.2  20 |3.77 60 167  0.83  0 258 -4.60 29 348| 80 16   92 258 74   90| 64 GS              
 2008 01 15 17:52:15.69 -21.984 -179.535 PDE|588.0 6.5 6.4  18 |6.29 45 100  0.27 10 201 -6.56 42 300|102 10  171 201 88   80| 92 GS              
 2008 02 01 12:10: 6.40 -21.495 -179.352 PDE|613.0 6.0 1.3  18 |1.30 44 145  0.02  0  54 -1.32 45 323|288  1  -36  54 89  -91| 97 GS              
 2008 04 15 17:24:56.48 -18.696 -175.959 PDE| 11.0 5.6 3.0  17 |2.81 21 232  0.32 61  96 -3.13 18 329|281 88  151  12 61    2| 80 GS              
 2008 07 03 03:02:37.56 -23.370 -179.778 PDE|564.0 6.2 2.4  18 |2.76 24 356 -0.83 16 258 -1.92 59 139|253 72 -107 117 25  -49| 40 GS              

Latest USGS Fast Moment Tensor Solutions

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