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Magnitude 7.1 MACQUARIE ISLAND REGION

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Historic USGS Moment Tensor Solutions

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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 1989 05 23 10:54:46.32 -52.341  160.568 PDE| 15.0 8.1 1.5  21 |1.51  0 354  0.04 89 105 -1.55  1 264| 39 89 -179 309 89   -1| 95 GS              
 1989 11 15 19:19:57.62 -52.204  160.031 PDE| 25.0 5.7 4.3  17 |4.40 37  28 -0.11 20 134 -4.28 46 246| 59 21 -166 315 85  -70| 95 GS              
 1990 09 17 13:47:26.64 -53.155  159.632 PDE| 21.0 6.3 3.8  18 |3.80 14 343  0.03 76 178 -3.83  4  73|119 78    7  27 83  168| 98 GS              
 1994 11 05 02:16: 3.32 -57.193  157.858 PDE| 18.0 6.5 6.9  18 |6.58  1 183  0.63 87 300 -7.21  3  93|228 87 -179 138 89   -3| 83 GS              
 1995 10 13 15:22:23.45 -59.014  158.280 PDE| 10.0 6.0 1.3  18 |1.27 66 329 -0.05 21 120 -1.23 11 214|329 39  125 106 59   65| 92 GS              
 1998 06 16 09:35:11.85 -52.988  159.837 PDE| 10.0 6.2 2.2  18 |2.24  6 353 -0.05 83 200 -2.19  3  84|128 83    2  38 88  173| 96 GS              
 2001 03 06 09:17:36.08 -54.588  157.271 PDE| 15.0 6.4 5.0  18 |4.97  2  13  0.08 87 160 -5.05  2 283| 58 87  179 148 89    3| 97 GS              
 2004 02 26 22:58:41.38 -53.159  159.651 PDE| 18.0 6.0 1.3  18 |1.22 10   3  0.11 75 134 -1.33 11 271| 47 76 -179 317 89  -14| 83 GS              
 2006 08 16 16:53:49.44 -58.892  149.154 PDE| 14.0 5.9 9.4  17 |9.08 16  32  0.69 71 177 -9.78 11 299| 75 71  176 166 86   19| 86 GS              
 2006 12 06 20:39:49.07 -53.982  158.999 PDE|  8.0 5.8 5.4  17 |4.59 57 331  1.57 18 212 -6.16 27 112|166 24   42  37 74  109| 49 GS              

Latest USGS Fast Moment Tensor Solutions

Preliminary Earthquake Report
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