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Historic USGS Moment Tensor Solutions

Magnitude 6.8 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
Tuesday, May 16, 2006 at 15:28:25 UTC

Historic Moment Tensor Solutions World Location
Major Tectonic Boundaries: Subduction Zones -purple, Ridges -red and Transform Faults -green

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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 2005 03 31 07:23:53.79   1.701   97.119 PDE| 19.0 5.8 5.3  17 |5.16 60  39  0.20  3 304 -5.36 29 212|293 16   79 125 74   93| 93 GS              
 2005 04 01 10:37:45.78   2.873   96.391 PDE|  6.0 5.2 6.1  16 |6.00  1 168  0.27 12 259 -6.27 78  74|246 45 -107  90 47  -73| 91 GS              
 2005 04 01 20:32:37.38   0.323   98.109 PDE| 16.0 5.6 2.7  17 |2.54  3  85  0.21 84 204 -2.76  6 354|130 84 -178  39 88   -6| 85 GS              
 2005 04 03 00:59:21.42   0.368   98.319 PDE| 28.0 6.0 1.1  18 |1.26 57  36 -0.32  5 298 -0.94 33 205|275 13   66 119 78   95| 49 GS              
 2005 04 03 03:10:56.47   2.022   97.942 PDE| 40.0 6.3 3.4  18 |3.38 63   7 -0.04 22 149 -3.34 15 245|  3 36  129 138 63   66| 98 GS              
 2005 04 04 04:33:46.63   1.605   97.872 PDE| 35.0 5.6 2.7  17 |2.87 54  22 -0.38 30 165 -2.49 18 266| 34 38  145 153 69   57| 74 GS              
 2005 04 07 11:46: 4.96   0.607   97.424 PDE|  9.0 5.6 2.8  17 |2.79 68  91  0.08 21 261 -2.87  3 353|104 46  121 243 52   62| 94 GS              
 2005 04 08 01:51:38.70   0.679   97.380 PDE| 20.0 5.8 5.2  17 |5.43 17 279 -0.50 70 129 -4.93  9  12| 56 71    6 324 85  161| 82 GS              
 2005 04 08 05:48:37.88  -0.215   97.731 PDE| 14.0 6.1 1.7  18 |1.73 24 295  0.02 63  82 -1.75 13 199|335 64  172  68 83   26| 98 GS              
 2005 04 10 10:29:11.28  -1.644   99.607 PDE| 26.0 6.6 8.3  18 |7.87 75 271  0.79 10 138 -8.67 11  46|124 35   72 325 57  102| 82 GS              
 2005 04 10 17:24:39.40  -1.591   99.717 PDE|  5.0 6.4 4.5  18 |5.14 42 196 -1.26  6 292 -3.88 47  29|222  7 -160 112 88  -84| 51 GS              
 2005 04 11 06:11:11.82   2.169   96.759 PDE| 20.0 6.1 1.5  18 |1.59 54  43 -0.14  2 310 -1.46 36 218|294  9   74 130 81   92| 82 GS              
 2005 04 11 09:04:30.61   2.075   96.829 PDE| 23.0 5.6 2.6  17 |2.57 57  90  0.08 30 299 -2.65 13 201|258 41   41 135 65  123| 94 GS              
 2005 04 14 11:29:52.55  -1.915   99.951 PDE| 29.0 5.7 3.5  17 |3.59 66  16 -0.17 19 154 -3.42 15 249|  4 34  125 144 63   69| 91 GS              
 2005 04 16 16:38: 3.90   1.812   97.662 PDE| 30.0 6.3 3.2  18 |3.59 56  20 -0.87 15 134 -2.73 30 233|  0 21  138 130 76   74| 52 GS              
 2005 04 17 13:43:54.56   0.307   97.663 PDE| 23.0 5.5 2.1  17 |2.08 43  79  0.07 18 331 -2.15 41 225|245 18    4 152 89  108| 93 GS              
 2005 04 25 20:18:20.64   0.364   97.275 PDE|  6.0 5.6 3.2  17 |3.34 43  78 -0.20 21 328 -3.14 40 220|243 21    4 149 89  111| 88 GS              
 2005 04 28 14:07:33.70   2.132   96.799 PDE| 20.0 6.2 2.4  18 |2.35 59  40  0.06  1 308 -2.41 31 217|303 14   85 128 76   91| 95 GS              
 2005 05 14 05:05:18.48   0.587   98.459 PDE| 38.0 6.8 1.6  19 |1.57 65  39 -0.02 14 162 -1.55 20 257| 10 28  121 156 66   74| 97 GS              
 2005 05 19 01:54:52.85   1.989   97.041 PDE| 39.0 6.7 1.2  19 |1.21 59  39 -0.05  4 303 -1.16 31 211|288 14   75 124 76   94| 92 GS              

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