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Saturday, April 11, 2009 at 03:48:12 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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 2005 11 09 08:00:27.99 -15.271 -173.637 PDE| 31.0 5.4 1.5  17 |1.70 45 180 -0.35 14 284 -1.36 42  27|187 14  173 284 88   76| 59 GS              
 2006 02 03 16:00:12.46 -16.361 -173.747 PDE| 83.0 5.5 2.6  17 |2.46  5  68  0.32 31 161 -2.78 59 330|129 49 -133   4 57  -52| 77 GS              
 2006 02 16 14:54:38.96 -15.980 -173.020 PDE| 24.0 5.8 6.1  17 |6.11 89 185 -0.01  0  67 -6.11  1 337| 66 44   89 247 46   91|100 GS              
 2006 02 26 04:18:42.11 -15.283 -176.239 PDE| 32.0 6.0 1.3  18 |1.33 14 331 -0.08 69 101 -1.25 16 237| 14 69 -179 284 89  -21| 88 GS              
 2006 03 05 17:12:52.07 -15.608 -174.548 PDE| 27.0 5.6 3.4  17 |3.43  6 296 -0.11 84  98 -3.32  2 206|341 84  177  72 87    6| 94 GS              
 2006 03 17 19:46:11.51 -15.325 -175.732 PDE| 30.0 5.6 3.1  17 |3.27 10 314 -0.32 80 139 -2.95  1  44| 90 82    7 359 83  172| 80 GS              
 2006 04 30 15:08:41.10 -15.436 -173.228 PDE| 19.0 5.5 1.9  17 |1.92 88  56 -0.04  2 223 -1.88  0 313| 45 45   92 222 45   88| 96 GS              
 2006 05 05 06:16:20.29 -19.833 -174.652 PDE| 26.0 5.9 8.1  17 |8.10 15 311 -0.06 66 184 -8.04 18  46| 88 67   -2 179 88 -157| 99 GS              
 2006 07 07 07:26:12.53 -15.244 -173.610 PDE| 34.0 6.0 1.1  18 |1.07 47 195  0.04  0 104 -1.11 43  14| 96  2   81 284 88   90| 93 GS              
 2006 09 28 06:22: 9.73 -16.592 -172.033 PDE| 36.0 6.7 1.3  19 |1.47  2 294 -0.30  6  25 -1.17 84 186| 19 43  -98 210 47  -82| 59 GS              
 2006 12 02 09:52:13.21 -17.774 -174.314 PDE|133.0 5.8 5.8  17 |4.86 21 360  1.78 55 236 -6.64 27 101|139 55   -4 231 87 -145| 46 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 04 05 03:25: 7.54 -16.999 -176.941 PDE| 18.0 5.7 4.2  17 |4.18  7 274  0.00 82 116 -4.18  3   5| 50 83    3 319 87  173|100 GS              
 2007 06 23 21:52: 3.08 -16.917 -177.069 PDE| 14.0 5.6 3.0  17 |3.03 13 266 -0.05 75 115 -2.98  7 357| 42 76    4 311 86  166| 97 GS              
 2007 07 06 17:40:49.64 -16.418 -172.644 PDE|  4.0 5.7 4.6  17 |4.91 34 202 -0.68 23 308 -4.23 47  65|238 24 -162 131 83  -67| 72 GS              
 2007 07 28 08:53:13.50 -15.898 -175.288 PDE|325.0 5.3 1.3  17 |1.15  4 157  0.21 14  66 -1.36 75 262|261 43  -69  54 50 -108| 69 GS              
 2007 08 26 12:37:31.19 -17.457 -174.335 PDE|                  |     40 105                    50 285| 15 85  -90 195  5  -90|    GS              
 2007 08 27 17:11:59.63 -17.311 -172.249 PDE|                  |     25 300                    65 120|210 70  -90  30 20  -90|    GS              
 2007 11 02 12:40:10.21 -15.376 -173.165 PDE| 14.0 5.6 3.4  17 |2.22 70 301  1.65  5 196 -3.87 18 104| 19 64   96 185 27   78| 15 GS              
 2007 11 02 13:30:44.02 -15.593 -173.066 PDE| 14.0 5.7 4.3  17 |3.10 66 306  1.78  7 197 -4.89 21 104| 21 67   98 180 24   71| 27 GS              

Latest USGS Fast Moment Tensor Solutions

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