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Magnitude 5.6 TAIWAN REGION

Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 19:41:58 UTC

Global CMT Project Moment Tensor Solution


May 10, 2008, TAIWAN REGION, MW=5.6

Goran Ekstrom

CENTROID-MOMENT-TENSOR  SOLUTION
GCMT EVENT:     C200805101942A  
DATA: II IU IC G  CU GE 
L.P.BODY WAVES: 82S, 156C, T= 40
MANTLE WAVES:   32S,  35C, T=125
SURFACE WAVES:  93S, 184C, T= 50
TIMESTAMP:      Q-20080511021535
CENTROID LOCATION:
ORIGIN TIME:      19:42:04.6 0.1
LAT:23.75N 0.01;LON:122.48E 0.01
DEP: 37.5  0.7;TRIANG HDUR:  1.6
MOMENT TENSOR: SCALE 10**24 D-CM
RR= 1.750 0.046; TT=-2.460 0.033
PP= 0.711 0.039; RT= 1.990 0.052
RP= 1.400 0.056; TP=-0.412 0.029
PRINCIPAL AXES:
1.(T) VAL=  3.120;PLG=58;AZM=301
2.(N)       0.338;    20;     67
3.(P)      -3.457;    24;    166
BEST DBLE.COUPLE:M0= 3.29*10**24
NP1: STRIKE=290;DIP=28;SLIP= 137
NP2: STRIKE= 60;DIP=71;SLIP=  69

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