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Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 04:43:25 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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 1993 04 18 09:16:23.22 -11.652  -76.530 PDE|107.0 6.2 2.7  18 |2.50 11 107  0.43 31 204 -2.93 57 360|165 43 -138  42 63  -55| 71 GS              
 1994 10 16 00:06:49.14  -9.297  -75.775 PDE|126.0 5.5 2.5  17 |2.93  0  53 -0.91 30 144 -2.02 60 323|117 52 -129 350 52  -51| 38 GS              
 1995 06 12 03:35:48.82  -8.304  -75.908 PDE| 35.0 5.3 1.3  17 |1.48 76 155 -0.29 13 348 -1.19  3 257|333 44   71 180 49  108| 61 GS              
 1995 07 31 08:48:30.75 -10.422  -78.264 PDE| 55.0 5.7 3.8  17 |4.29  3 261 -0.97 38 169 -3.32 52 356| 25 53  -40 141 59 -136| 55 GS              
 1995 09 23 22:31:56.36 -10.680  -78.581 PDE| 58.0 6.4 5.8  18 |5.83 24  95  0.01  4   4 -5.84 65 265|194 21  -79   2 70  -94|100 GS              
 1996 01 19 19:01:58.51 -10.359  -78.748 PDE| 30.0 5.6 3.3  17 |3.27 64 231  0.07  5 332 -3.34 25  65|167 20  106 330 70   84| 96 GS              
 1996 02 21 12:51: 1.30  -9.593  -79.587 PDE|  4.0 7.4 1.5  20 |1.49 49  71  0.02  0 162 -1.51 41 252|347  4   95 162 86   90| 97 GS              
 1996 11 12 16:59:44.03 -14.993  -75.675 PDE| 18.0 7.5 2.0  20 |1.93 64 136  0.17 24 344 -2.10 11 249|312 40   51 178 60  118| 84 GS              
 1996 11 13 02:41:39.94 -14.843  -75.692 PDE| 21.0 6.0 1.3  18 |1.26 60 106  0.03 18 343 -1.29 24 244|302 26   47 169 71  109| 95 GS              
 1996 11 13 12:32: 9.82 -15.474  -75.414 PDE|  8.0 6.0 1.1  18 |1.11 56  84 -0.02 10 339 -1.08 32 242|301 16   51 161 77  101| 96 GS              
 1996 11 14 11:44: 6.74 -14.802  -75.746 PDE| 18.0 5.6 2.8  17 |2.74 62 120  0.08 22 342 -2.81 17 245|306 34   49 173 65  114| 94 GS              
 1997 02 09 12:32:36.29 -14.486  -76.276 PDE| 19.0 6.0 1.1  18 |1.15 61  79 -0.04  1 171 -1.10 29 262|355 16   94 171 74   89| 93 GS              
 2001 08 06 17:08:46.33  -8.535  -75.009 PDE|127.0 5.4 1.5  17 |1.60 12  59 -0.22  1 149 -1.38 78 246|147 33  -93 330 57  -88| 73 GS              
 2002 05 11 10:43: 7.89 -10.424  -78.506 PDE| 47.0 5.7 3.8  17 |3.82 67 234  0.00 16   6 -3.82 16 101|213 32  121 357 63   72|100 GS              
 2003 05 28 21:26:47.29 -12.394  -77.172 PDE| 36.0 5.6 2.7  17 |2.38 76 254  0.55  7 134 -2.93 12  42|123 33   77 318 58   98| 62 GS              
 2005 02 17 03:12:46.85 -10.927  -76.101 PDE|128.0 5.4 1.8  17 |1.76  2 267  0.01 65 173 -1.78 25 359| 40 71  -17 136 74 -160| 99 GS              
 2006 10 20 10:48:56.01 -13.457  -76.677 PDE| 26.0 6.6 1.0  19 |1.00 61  87  0.02  0 357 -1.02 29 267|356 16   89 177 74   90| 96 GS              
 2006 10 26 22:54:32.32 -13.371  -76.618 PDE| 25.0 5.9 8.2  17 |8.00 63  81  0.47  3 178 -8.47 27 270|  8 19  101 177 72   86| 89 GS              
 2007 08 15 23:40:57.89 -13.386  -76.603 PDE|                  |     65  85                    25 265|175 70   90 355 20   90|    GS              
 2007 08 19 01:22:38.29 -13.621  -76.617 PDE|                  |     65 140                    25 320|230 70   90  50 20   90|    GS              

Latest USGS Fast Moment Tensor Solutions

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