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Magnitude 8.6 NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
Monday, March 28, 2005 at 16:09:36 UTC

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


March 28, 2005, NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA, MW=8.6

Natasha Maternovskaya

CENTROID, MOMENT TENSOR SOLUTION
HARVARD EVENT-FILE NAME M032805A
DATA USED: GSN
MANTLE WAVES:    72S,194C, T=200
CENTROID LOCATION:
ORIGIN TIME       16:10:31.8 0.4
LAT  1.64N 0.04;LON  96.98E 0.04
DEP  24.9 1.1;HALF-DURATION 50.3
MOMENT TENSOR; SCALE 10**29 D-CM
  MRR= 0.25 0.00; MTT=-0.10 0.00
  MPP=-0.14 0.00; MRT= 0.83 0.05
  MRP=-0.68 0.05; MTP= 0.14 0.00
 PRINCIPAL AXES:
 1.(T) VAL=  1.10;PLG=51;AZM= 37
 2.(N)       0.01;     2;    130
 3.(P)      -1.11;    38;    222
BEST DOUBLE COUPLE:M0=1.1*10**29
 NP1:STRIKE=329;DIP= 7;SLIP= 109
 NP2:STRIKE=130;DIP=83;SLIP=  88

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