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Harvard Moment Tensor Solution

Magnitude 7.9 TONGA
Wednesday, May 03, 2006 at 15:26:40 UTC


May 3, 2006, TONGA, MW=7.9

Natasha Maternovskaya
Goran Ekstrom

CENTROID, MOMENT TENSOR SOLUTION
HARVARD EVENT-FILE NAME M050306A
DATA USED: GSN
MANTLE WAVES:    48S, 85C, T=150
CENTROID LOCATION:
ORIGIN TIME       15:27: 8.7 0.5
LAT 20.33S 0.04;LON 174.03W 0.05
DEP  65.5 1.7;HALF-DURATION 24.6
MOMENT TENSOR; SCALE 10**28 D-CM
  MRR= 0.59 0.01; MTT=-0.17 0.01
  MPP=-0.42 0.01; MRT= 0.11 0.02
  MRP= 0.75 0.02; MTP=-0.28 0.01
 PRINCIPAL AXES:
 1.(T) VAL=  0.99;PLG=62;AZM=266
 2.(N)      -0.05;    12;     18
 3.(P)      -0.94;    26;    114
BEST DOUBLE COUPLE:M0=1.0*10**28
 NP1:STRIKE=228;DIP=22;SLIP= 122
 NP2:STRIKE= 14;DIP=72;SLIP=  78

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