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Magnitude 6.5 SIMEULUE, INDONESIA
Saturday, November 19, 2005 at 14:10:14 UTC

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


November 19, 2005, SIMEULUE, INDONESIA, MW=6.4

Meredith Nettles

CENTROID, MOMENT TENSOR SOLUTION
HARVARD EVENT-FILE NAME C111905A
DATA USED: GSN
L.P. BODY WAVES: 73S,194C, T= 40
MANTLE WAVES:    67S,110C, T=125
CENTROID LOCATION:
ORIGIN TIME       14:10:17.4 0.1
LAT  2.04N 0.01;LON  96.55E 0.01
DEP  12.0 FIX;HALF-DURATION  4.5
MOMENT TENSOR; SCALE 10**25 D-CM
  MRR= 1.50 0.02; MTT=-0.80 0.02
  MPP=-0.71 0.03; MRT= 3.57 0.05
  MRP=-3.68 0.06; MTP= 0.97 0.02
 PRINCIPAL AXES:
 1.(T) VAL=  5.26;PLG=54;AZM= 47
 2.(N)       0.22;     1;    316
 3.(P)      -5.49;    36;    225
BEST DOUBLE COUPLE:M0=5.4*10**25
 NP1:STRIKE=311;DIP= 9;SLIP=  85
 NP2:STRIKE=136;DIP=81;SLIP=  91

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