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Magnitude 4.6 BONIN ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION

Friday, March 21, 2008 at 20:11:13 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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 2000 10 14 20:02:52.25  23.556  141.833 PDE|121.0 5.5 2.1  17 |1.90 45  55  0.44 41 262 -2.35 14 160|209 48   27 100 71  135| 63 GS              
 2000 10 27 04:21:51.60  26.266  140.460 PDE|387.0 6.1 1.5  18 |1.87 47 145 -0.79 34 283 -1.08 22  29|163 38  156 273 75   54| 16 GS              
 2001 04 14 23:27:26.66  30.092  141.768 PDE|  7.0 5.9 9.9  17 |9.86 12 277  0.07  4 186 -9.93 77  79| 12 33  -83 183 57  -95| 99 GS              
 2001 09 12 22:23:44.09  27.692  141.907 PDE| 51.0 5.6 3.5  17 |3.72  2 229 -0.48 17 139 -3.24 73 325|336 46  -66 124 49 -112| 74 GS              
 2001 12 23 10:21:28.25  27.871  141.750 PDE| 29.0 5.8 7.2  17 |7.88 63 303 -1.41 13 186 -6.46 23  90|155 25   57  11 70  104| 64 GS              
 2002 03 04 20:21:22.85  28.446  143.275 PDE|  8.0 5.4 1.6  17 |1.63  2  64 -0.05  0 154 -1.57 88 252|154 43  -90 335 47  -90| 94 GS              
 2002 03 11 01:46:20.67  30.599  141.566 PDE| 18.0 5.7 4.5  17 |4.44 77   3  0.06 13 173 -4.50  2 263|  6 44  108 161 49   73| 97 GS              
 2002 03 20 04:00:18.60  30.512  141.962 PDE|  4.0 5.8 7.4  17 |7.47 47 269 -0.07 12  12 -7.40 40 113|266 12  164  12 87   78| 98 GS              
 2002 06 03 09:15: 0.70  27.564  139.780 PDE|491.0 5.8 6.7  17 |6.75 28  43 -0.10 25 148 -6.65 51 273| 88 28 -153 334 77  -64| 97 GS              
 2002 08 20 10:59:32.02  30.986  141.966 PDE|  3.0 6.3 3.3  18 |3.24 52 299  0.19  2  32 -3.44 38 124|229  8  107  32 83   88| 89 GS              
 2003 06 01 17:50:21.99  28.197  142.773 PDE|  6.0 5.6 2.7  17 |2.74 26 223 -0.06 34 332 -2.68 45 104|265 36 -162 160 79  -55| 96 GS              
 2004 11 02 08:45:56.28  28.702  143.214 PDE|  5.0 5.7 4.2  17 |4.15  9 258  0.08 22 164 -4.23 66   9| 12 40  -56 149 58 -116| 96 GS              
 2005 02 09 18:46: 9.97  26.088  143.997 PDE| 24.0 6.3 3.1  18 |3.10  0  35 -0.06 12 125 -3.04 78 303|113 46 -107 317 47  -73| 96 GS              
 2005 12 26 13:48: 1.75  26.822  140.646 PDE|  3.0 5.7 4.3  17 |4.17  6 250  0.29 12 159 -4.47 77   4|353 41  -71 149 52 -106| 87 GS              
 2006 02 17 02:13:29.88  24.021  141.489 PDE|157.0 5.6 3.3  17 |3.45 65 196 -0.27 16  69 -3.18 19 333| 38 30   56 256 66  108| 84 GS              
 2006 08 06 18:16:39.72  26.119  144.011 PDE| 20.0 5.8 6.8  17 |6.49  2 243  0.57  6 153 -7.06 84 348|339 44  -82 148 47  -98| 84 GS              
 2006 10 23 21:17:19.98  29.351  140.270 PDE|  4.0 6.4 4.8  18 |5.01 13 241 -0.33  4 332 -4.67 77  78|326 33  -97 154 58  -86| 87 GS              
 2006 10 29 08:31:44.60  29.366  140.197 PDE|  5.0 5.6 3.0  17 |3.10  1 236 -0.14 12 145 -2.96 78 332|337 45  -73 134 47 -106| 91 GS              
 2007 03 08 05:03:32.26  29.908  140.204 PDE|125.0 6.0 1.4  18 |1.41 21  61  0.07 55 185 -1.47 26 320|102 55 -176  10 87  -35| 90 GS              
 2007 04 04 21:40:18.77  30.926  141.673 PDE| 19.0 5.6 3.2  17 |3.18 85  13  0.06  5 172 -3.24  2 262|357 43   97 167 47   83| 96 GS              

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