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Magnitude 8.1 SOLOMON ISLANDS

Sunday, April 01, 2007 at 20:39:57 UTC

Global CMT Project Moment Tensor Solution


April 1, 2007, SOLOMON ISLANDS, MW=8.1

Goran Ekstrom
Meredith Nettles

CENTROID-MOMENT-TENSOR  SOLUTION
GCMT EVENT:     M200704012039A  
DATA: II IU CU IC 
MANTLE WAVES:   75S, 203C, T=150
TIMESTAMP:      Q-20070401193702
CENTROID LOCATION:
ORIGIN TIME:      20:40:40.7 0.2
LAT: 7.96S 0.01;LON:156.40E 0.01
DEP: 23.0  0.6;TRIANG HDUR: 26.3
MOMENT TENSOR: SCALE 10**28 D-CM
RR= 1.420 0.013; TT=-0.728 0.008
PP=-0.687 0.009; RT= 0.783 0.053
RP= 0.083 0.054; TP= 0.685 0.005
PRINCIPAL AXES:
1.(T) VAL=  1.713;PLG=69;AZM=339
2.(N)      -0.219;    18;    126
3.(P)      -1.488;    11;    220
BEST DBLE.COUPLE:M0= 1.60*10**28
NP1: STRIKE=331;DIP=38;SLIP= 120
NP2: STRIKE=115;DIP=58;SLIP=  69

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