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Magnitude 6.5 SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS

Monday, January 19, 2009 at 03:35:18 UTC

Global CMT Project Moment Tensor Solution


January 19, 2009, SOUTHEAST OF LOYALTY ISLANDS, MW=6.5

Goran Ekstrom

CENTROID-MOMENT-TENSOR  SOLUTION
GCMT EVENT:     C200901190335A  
DATA: II IU CU IC G  GE 
L.P.BODY WAVES:115S, 286C, T= 40
MANTLE WAVES:  109S, 214C, T=125
SURFACE WAVES: 109S, 261C, T= 50
TIMESTAMP:      Q-20090120182620
CENTROID LOCATION:
ORIGIN TIME:      03:35:27.0 0.0
LAT:22.71S 0.00;LON:170.75E 0.00
DEP: 14.6  0.1;TRIANG HDUR:  4.3
MOMENT TENSOR: SCALE 10**25 D-CM
RR= 5.900 0.028; TT=-5.700 0.025
PP=-0.197 0.023; RT= 3.310 0.062
RP=-0.654 0.050; TP= 2.080 0.020
PRINCIPAL AXES:
1.(T) VAL=  6.780;PLG=75;AZM=  3
2.(N)       0.474;     4;    107
3.(P)      -7.251;    14;    198
BEST DBLE.COUPLE:M0= 7.02*10**25
NP1: STRIKE=293;DIP=31;SLIP=  97
NP2: STRIKE=105;DIP=59;SLIP=  86

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