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Magnitude 6.5 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Friday, December 02, 2005 at 13:13:09 UTC

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


December 2, 2005, NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN, MW=6.5

Natasha Maternovskaya

CENTROID, MOMENT TENSOR SOLUTION
HARVARD EVENT-FILE NAME C120205A
DATA USED: GSN
L.P. BODY WAVES: 72S,190C, T= 40
MANTLE WAVES:    63S,127C, T=125
CENTROID LOCATION:
ORIGIN TIME       13:13:12.9 0.1
LAT 37.99N 0.01;LON 142.24E 0.01
DEP  37.2 0.9;HALF-DURATION  4.2
MOMENT TENSOR; SCALE 10**25 D-CM
  MRR= 3.67 0.05; MTT=-0.32 0.05
  MPP=-3.35 0.06; MRT= 1.77 0.10
  MRP= 4.50 0.13; MTP=-1.88 0.05
 PRINCIPAL AXES:
 1.(T) VAL=  5.97;PLG=65;AZM=288
 2.(N)       0.57;     2;     23
 3.(P)      -6.53;    25;    114
BEST DOUBLE COUPLE:M0=6.3*10**25
 NP1:STRIKE=210;DIP=20;SLIP=  97
 NP2:STRIKE= 22;DIP=70;SLIP=  87

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