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Magnitude 6.1 AMAZONAS, BRAZIL

Saturday, July 21, 2007 at 13:27:03 UTC

Global CMT Project Moment Tensor Solution


July 21, 2007, AMAZONAS, BRAZIL, MW=6.0

Goran Ekstrom

CENTROID-MOMENT-TENSOR  SOLUTION
GCMT EVENT:     C200707211327A  
DATA: II IU CU IC GE 
L.P.BODY WAVES: 79S, 169C, T= 40
MANTLE WAVES:   58S,  70C, T=125
TIMESTAMP:      Q-20070721171000
CENTROID LOCATION:
ORIGIN TIME:      13:27:05.5 0.1
LAT: 8.02S 0.01;LON: 71.39W 0.01
DEP:638.7  1.1;TRIANG HDUR:  2.5
MOMENT TENSOR: SCALE 10**25 D-CM
RR=-0.769 0.011; TT=-0.087 0.015
PP= 0.856 0.019; RT=-0.391 0.015
RP= 1.030 0.015; TP=-0.081 0.014
PRINCIPAL AXES:
1.(T) VAL=  1.396;PLG=27;AZM=259
2.(N)      -0.047;     9;    165
3.(P)      -1.349;    62;     58
BEST DBLE.COUPLE:M0= 1.37*10**25
NP1: STRIKE= 10;DIP=20;SLIP= -64
NP2: STRIKE=162;DIP=72;SLIP= -99

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