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Magnitude 7.4 NEAR N COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA

Saturday, January 03, 2009 at 22:33:40 UTC

Global CMT Project Moment Tensor Solution


January 3, 2009, NEAR N COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA, MW=7.4

Goran Ekstrom
Meredith Nettles

CENTROID-MOMENT-TENSOR  SOLUTION
GCMT EVENT:     C200901032233A  
DATA: II IU CU IC GE G  
L.P.BODY WAVES:100S, 254C, T= 50
MANTLE WAVES:  104S, 250C, T=150
SURFACE WAVES: 105S, 267C, T= 50
TIMESTAMP:      Q-20090103212552
CENTROID LOCATION:
ORIGIN TIME:      22:33:45.5 0.2
LAT: 0.55S 0.01;LON:133.55E 0.02
DEP: 19.2  0.7;TRIANG HDUR: 12.0
MOMENT TENSOR: SCALE 10**27 D-CM
RR= 1.050 0.013; TT=-0.953 0.008
PP=-0.098 0.008; RT=-0.769 0.063
RP= 0.616 0.065; TP= 0.387 0.006
PRINCIPAL AXES:
1.(T) VAL=  1.458;PLG=67;AZM=231
2.(N)       0.003;     9;    119
3.(P)      -1.462;    21;     25
BEST DBLE.COUPLE:M0= 1.46*10**27
NP1: STRIKE= 99;DIP=25;SLIP=  68
NP2: STRIKE=303;DIP=66;SLIP= 100

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