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Magnitude 6.8 SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, ARGENTINA

Monday, November 13, 2006 at 01:26:34 UTC

Harvard Moment Tensor Solution


November 13, 2006, SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, ARGENTINA, MW=6.8

Meredith Nettles
Goran Ekstrom

CENTROID, MOMENT TENSOR SOLUTION
HARVARD EVENT-FILE NAME C111306A
DATA USED: GSN
L.P. BODY WAVES: 79S,199C, T= 50
MANTLE WAVES:    63S,129C, T=125
CENTROID LOCATION:
ORIGIN TIME       01:26:45.2 0.1
LAT 26.01S 0.01;LON  63.39W 0.01
DEP 572.3 0.6;HALF-DURATION  6.3
MOMENT TENSOR; SCALE 10**26 D-CM
  MRR=-0.41 0.01; MTT=-0.25 0.01
  MPP= 0.67 0.02; MRT=-0.73 0.01
  MRP= 1.90 0.01; MTP=-0.34 0.01
 PRINCIPAL AXES:
 1.(T) VAL=  2.30;PLG=37;AZM=250
 2.(N)      -0.37;     1;    159
 3.(P)      -1.94;    53;     67
BEST DOUBLE COUPLE:M0=2.1*10**26
 NP1:STRIKE=349;DIP= 8;SLIP= -80
 NP2:STRIKE=159;DIP=82;SLIP= -91

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