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Magnitude 4.9 GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA
Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 20:53:26 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver


June 16, 2005, GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, MW=4.8

Natasha Maternovskaya
Meredith Nettles

CENTROID, MOMENT TENSOR SOLUTION
HARVARD EVENT-FILE NAME C061605A
DATA USED: GSN
L.P. BODY WAVES: 14S, 19C, T= 40
SURFACE WAVES:   48S, 72C, T= 50
CENTROID LOCATION:
ORIGIN TIME       20:53:29.0 0.6
LAT 34.05N 0.03;LON 116.99W 0.03
DEP  12.0 FIX;HALF-DURATION  0.7
MOMENT TENSOR; SCALE 10**23 D-CM
  MRR= 1.00 0.10; MTT=-2.33 0.10
  MPP= 1.33 0.08; MRT= 1.01 0.27
  MRP= 0.26 0.27; MTP= 0.80 0.09
 PRINCIPAL AXES:
 1.(T) VAL=  1.83;PLG=36;AZM=291
 2.(N)       0.90;    51;     82
 3.(P)      -2.74;    14;    190
BEST DOUBLE COUPLE:M0=2.3*10**23
 NP1:STRIKE=324;DIP=54;SLIP= 163
 NP2:STRIKE= 65;DIP=76;SLIP=  37

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