Harvard Moment Tensor Solution
Magnitude 5.6 TONGA
Sunday, May 28, 2006 at 03:36:18 UTC
May 28, 2006, TONGA, MW=5.6
Natasha Maternovskaya
CENTROID, MOMENT TENSOR SOLUTION
HARVARD EVENT-FILE NAME C052806B
DATA USED: GSN
L.P. BODY WAVES: 16S, 21C, T= 40
SURFACE WAVES: 53S, 89C, T= 50
CENTROID LOCATION:
ORIGIN TIME 03:36:22.9 0.4
LAT 19.95S 0.02;LON 174.00W 0.03
DEP 42.5 1.4;HALF-DURATION 1.5
MOMENT TENSOR; SCALE 10**24 D-CM
MRR= 2.93 0.29; MTT=-1.00 0.17
MPP=-1.93 0.17; MRT= 1.65 0.11
MRP=-0.73 0.12; MTP= 1.43 0.08
PRINCIPAL AXES:
1.(T) VAL= 3.54;PLG=71;AZM= 7
2.(N) -0.17; 13; 137
3.(P) -3.37; 14; 230
BEST DOUBLE COUPLE:M0=3.5*10**24
NP1:STRIKE=338;DIP=33;SLIP= 114
NP2:STRIKE=129;DIP=61;SLIP= 75
-----------
###########--------
################-------
-###################-------
--#####################------
----########## ########------
----########## T #########-----
------######### #########------
--------####################-----
---------###################-----
-----------#################-----
------------###############----
--------------#############----
-- -----------#########----
- P ----------------####---
-------------------##
-----------------##
-----------
Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

