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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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 1997 05 13 05:38:30.23  31.824  130.281 PDE| 14.0 6.0 1.4  18 |1.35  1 154  0.10 88 271 -1.45  2  64|199 88 -179 109 89   -2| 86 GS              
 1997 06 25 09:50:12.49  34.395  131.603 PDE| 12.0 5.9 9.1  17 |8.86  5   6  0.52 80 129 -9.38  8 275| 51 80 -178 321 88  -10| 89 GS              
 1998 05 22 19:49:33.71  33.622  131.514 PDE| 82.0 5.5 2.2  17 |2.88 49 252 -1.25 24  12 -1.62 32 118|259 25  159   8 81   66| 13 GS              
 1998 12 16 00:18:45.00  31.287  131.286 PDE| 27.0 5.9 9.9  17 |1.08 52 298 -0.17 20  56 -0.91 31 159|295 24  151  52 79   69| 69 GS              
 1999 01 24 00:37: 4.63  30.618  131.086 PDE| 20.0 6.3 3.0  18 |3.27 37 290 -0.49 13 190 -2.78 50  84| 71 14  -28 188 83 -103| 70 GS              
 1999 08 20 20:33:10.88  34.024  135.405 PDE| 60.0 5.6 3.6  17 |3.69 37  56 -0.11 29 171 -3.59 39 288| 84 29 -177 352 89  -61| 94 GS              
 2000 04 21 11:06:16.02  35.667  135.486 PDE|341.0 5.5 2.0  17 |2.05  5 323  0.00  9  53 -2.05 80 205| 43 41 -103 241 50  -79|100 GS              
 2000 06 06 21:16:42.40  36.829  135.464 PDE|  7.0 5.8 7.0  17 |7.06 85  96 -0.13  1 193 -6.93  5 283| 13 40   91 192 50   89| 96 GS              
 2000 06 25 06:34:42.88  31.183  131.206 PDE| 26.0 5.9 9.9  17 |9.92 60 318  0.03 12 207 -9.95 28 111|173 20   54  30 74  102| 99 GS              
 2000 10 06 04:30:19.15  35.456  133.134 PDE|  7.0 6.5 7.3  18 |7.19 11  17  0.28 77 162 -7.47  7 285| 61 77  177 151 87   13| 93 GS              
 2001 03 24 06:27:53.58  34.083  132.526 PDE| 49.0 6.7 1.3  19 |1.39  8 256 -0.26  6 347 -1.13 80 115|339 38 -100 172 53  -82| 63 GS              
 2001 04 25 14:40: 6.04  32.824  132.023 PDE| 35.0 5.6 3.6  17 |3.97 27 275 -0.68 46 152 -3.29 31  23| 58 46   -3 150 88 -136| 66 GS              
 2004 05 29 10:14:28.44  36.634  129.928 PDE| 17.0 5.3 1.0  17 |1.05 53 175 -0.04 37 347 -1.01  4  80|202 52  139 320 59   46| 92 GS              
 2005 03 20 01:53:41.83  33.807  130.131 PDE| 13.0 6.4 5.8  18 |5.48  3 349  0.70 87 191 -6.18  1  79|124 87    1  34 89  177| 77 GS              
 2005 04 19 21:11:28.42  33.637  130.179 PDE| 18.0 5.5 2.1  17 |2.27 15  13 -0.34 75 186 -1.93  2 283| 57 78  171 149 81   12| 70 GS              
 2005 05 31 02:04:15.24  31.400  131.202 PDE| 31.0 5.7 3.9  17 |3.49 67 323  0.74  4 224 -4.23 23 132|214 22   79  45 68   94| 65 GS              
 2005 10 23 10:08:14.74  37.377  134.556 PDE|389.0 5.9 9.7  17 |9.41 57 102  0.49  9 358 -9.89 32 263|325 16   56 180 77   99| 90 GS              
 2005 11 21 15:36:30.98  31.019  129.997 PDE|145.0 6.1 1.9  18 |1.90 52 253  0.01 18   7 -1.90 32 108|244 20  149   4 80   72| 99 GS              
 2006 06 11 20:01:26.35  33.134  131.145 PDE|137.0 6.3 4.2  18 |4.27 66 354 -0.20 19 213 -4.07 14 118|184 35   56  43 61  112| 91 GS              
 2007 07 16 14:17:37.34  36.808  134.850 PDE|362.0 6.8 1.8  19 |1.72 27 146  0.17 40  31 -1.89 38 259|287 41  -11  25 83 -131| 82 GS              

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