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Historical USGS Moment Tensor Solutions

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Saturday, October 09, 2004 at 21:26:53 UTC

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Historical Moment Tensor Solutions

The most recent (20 or less) USGS Moment Tensor Solutions are shown.
Data from the Source Parameter Database.

                        E P I C E N T E R   |          MOMENT  |    P R I N C I P A L  A X E S       |N O D A L  P L A N E S | 
     DATE    TIME (UTC)   LAT      LONG  SRC|DEPTH     VAL  EX |     T            N            P     |     1           2     | %  SRC
  YR  MO DA HR MN SEC     deg      deg      |  km  Mw     Nm   |VAL  PL AZM  VAL  PL AZM  VAL  PL AZM|STK DP SLIP STK DP SLIP| DC
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 1997 12 18 15:02: 0.32  13.840  -88.739 PDE|179.0 6.1 1.5  18 |1.35 66  39  0.26  0 130 -1.61 24 220|310 22   91 130 69   90| 68 GS              
 1997 12 22 10:03:45.18  13.742  -90.316 PDE| 49.0 6.0 1.3  18 |1.30 58  20 -0.01 13 132 -1.29 29 229|351 20  131 128 75   77| 98 GS              
 1998 05 10 06:05:58.91  13.676  -90.747 PDE| 16.0 6.3 2.8  18 |2.82 60  47 -0.04 14 291 -2.78 26 194|256 23   52 116 72  104| 97 GS              
 1998 08 23 13:57:15.38  11.663  -88.038 PDE|  9.0 6.7 1.2  19 |1.20 15  12 -0.02 37 114 -1.18 49 264| 63 44 -149 310 69  -50| 97 GS              
 1998 10 09 11:54:36.17  11.321  -86.451 PDE| 21.0 6.0 1.1  18 |1.12 41   4  0.05 45 154 -1.17 16 260| 33 49  159 137 74   43| 91 GS              
 1999 06 06 07:08: 5.86  13.897  -90.768 PDE| 45.0 6.3 2.7  18 |2.67  5  66  0.01 40 161 -2.67 50 330|122 53 -143   7 61  -44| 99 GS              
 1999 08 20 10:02:21.10   9.044  -84.159 PDE| 25.0 6.8 1.6  19 |1.63 67  23  0.00  4 122 -1.63 23 214|312 23  101 121 68   86|100 GS              
 2000 07 21 01:53:35.81   9.416  -85.329 PDE|  4.0 6.4 5.2  18 |5.02 31  19  0.26  4 112 -5.28 58 209| 95 14 -107 293 76  -86| 90 GS              
 2001 01 13 17:33:32.38  13.049  -88.660 PDE| 36.0 7.6 2.9  20 |3.17  9  34 -0.47  3 125 -2.70 81 233|121 37  -95 307 54  -86| 70 GS              
 2001 01 16 10:58:17.00  12.985  -88.697 PDE| 38.0 5.6 3.3  17 |4.00 36 240 -1.49 12 141 -2.52 51  36| 19 14  -32 140 83 -102| 26 GS              
 2001 01 23 05:23:32.27  14.017  -90.907 PDE| 39.0 5.9 7.0  17 |8.24 20  45 -2.44 10 312 -5.80 68 195|153 27  -67 307 65 -101| 41 GS              
 2001 02 13 14:22: 5.82  13.671  -88.938 PDE| 15.0 6.5 6.2  18 |6.17  5  51 -0.02 81 173 -6.14  7 321| 96 81 -178   6 88   -9| 99 GS              
 2001 02 28 18:50:13.02  13.283  -88.827 PDE| 54.0 6.1 1.4  18 |1.37 57  18  0.15  0 288 -1.52 33 198|288 12   89 108 78   90| 80 GS              
 2001 03 16 00:01:18.38  13.144  -88.699 PDE| 36.0 5.8 6.5  17 |6.91 59  60 -0.89 17 299 -6.02 25 201|258 25   46 125 72  108| 74 GS              
 2001 03 18 15:43:21.31  12.540  -87.399 PDE| 34.0 5.7 3.7  17 |3.14 75 333  1.04 15 145 -4.18  2 236|341 45  112 132 49   70| 50 GS              
 2002 06 16 02:46:14.03   8.784  -83.992 PDE|  8.0 6.4 3.8  18 |3.74 56  29  0.19  7 289 -3.93 33 194|260 14   61 110 78   97| 90 GS              
 2002 08 04 00:21:42.88  11.373  -87.312 PDE| 23.0 5.5 1.7  17 |1.75  8  22 -0.02 11 114 -1.73 76 255|100 38 -108 302 54  -77| 98 GS              
 2003 01 21 02:46:47.74  13.626  -90.774 PDE| 25.0 6.3 3.7  18 |3.57 71 358  0.24 17 150 -3.81  8 243|352 40  118 138 56   69| 87 GS              
 2003 02 05 19:01:11.09  13.774  -90.880 PDE| 56.0 5.5 2.3  17 |2.54 58  56 -0.46 20 290 -2.08 24 191|247 28   43 117 71  111| 64 GS              
 2003 07 13 21:21:56.33  12.868  -90.017 PDE| 20.0 5.3 1.0  17 |0.92 67  81  0.24 22 281 -1.16  7 188|254 42   56 116 56  117| 59 GS              

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