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Magnitude 5.6 NORTHERN XINJIANG, CHINA

Friday, July 20, 2007 at 10:06:52 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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 1987 01 05 22:52:46.55  41.964   81.319 PDE| 19.0 5.6 3.4  17 |3.33 73  45  0.22 15 256 -3.55  8 164|237 39   66  87 55  108| 88 GS              
 1987 01 24 08:09:21.30  41.529   79.318 PDE| 14.0 6.0 1.2  18 |1.17 64 213  0.00 24  56 -1.17  9 322| 27 42   53 252 58  118|100 GS              
 1990 11 12 12:28:51.52  42.959   78.071 PDE| 19.0 6.4 5.2  18 |5.02  9  70  0.31 81 239 -5.34  2 339|114 82  175 205 85    8| 88 GS              
 1995 11 01 12:29:26.73  42.942   80.307 PDE| 14.0 5.0 4.5  16 |4.62 57 332 -0.29 11  80 -4.33 30 177|298 18  130  77 76   78| 87 GS              
 2003 12 01 01:38:31.96  42.905   80.515 PDE|  8.0 5.8 6.9  17 |6.99 71 341 -0.15  0  71 -6.84 19 161|251 26   90  71 64   90| 96 GS              
 2004 10 27 09:23:38.95  45.087   80.162 PDE|  5.0 5.3 9.8  16 |9.87 65 299 -0.23 18  75 -9.65 16 170|285 33  125  66 63   70| 95 GS              
 2005 02 14 23:38: 8.66  41.728   79.440 PDE| 18.0 6.0 1.1  18 |1.10 51 339 -0.02 11  82 -1.08 37 181|320 13  148  81 83   79| 96 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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