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Harvard Centroid Moment Tensor Solution

Magnitude 7.9 CENTRAL ALASKA

2002 November 03 22:12:41 UTC

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

November 03, 2002, CENTRAL ALASKA, Mw=7.9

Meredith Nettles
Goran Ekstrom

CENTROID, MOMENT TENSOR SOLUTION
HARVARD EVENT-FILE NAME C110302A
DATA USED: GSN
L.P. BODY WAVES: 52S,108C, T= 45
MANTLE WAVES:    60S,156C, T=200
CENTROID LOCATION:
ORIGIN TIME       22:13:32.3 0.2
LAT 63.42N 0.01;LON 144.96W 0.03
DEP  18.8 1.1;HALF-DURATION 22.0
MOMENT TENSOR; SCALE 10**27 D-CM
  MRR= 0.47 0.05; MTT=-6.24 0.04
  MPP= 5.77 0.04; MRT=-2.15 0.50
  MRP= 1.66 0.48; MTP=-3.86 0.03
 PRINCIPAL AXES:
 1.(T) VAL=  7.60;PLG=18;AZM=252
 2.(N)       0.10;    69;    107
 3.(P)      -7.70;    11;    345
BEST DOUBLE COUPLE:M0=7.6*10**27
 NP1:STRIKE= 29;DIP=69;SLIP=   4
 NP2:STRIKE=298;DIP=86;SLIP= 159

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