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Magnitude 6.7 SOUTHEAST OF LOYALTY ISLANDS

Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 07:27:20 UTC

Global CMT Project Moment Tensor Solution


January 15, 2009, SOUTHEAST OF LOYALTY ISLANDS, MW=6.6

Liz Starin

CENTROID-MOMENT-TENSOR  SOLUTION
GCMT EVENT:     C200901150727A  
DATA: II IU CU IC G  GE 
L.P.BODY WAVES:116S, 297C, T= 50
MANTLE WAVES:  109S, 211C, T=125
SURFACE WAVES: 111S, 268C, T= 50
TIMESTAMP:      Q-20090115092331
CENTROID LOCATION:
ORIGIN TIME:      07:27:27.1 0.0
LAT:22.55S 0.00;LON:170.47E 0.00
DEP: 26.0  0.2;TRIANG HDUR:  4.7
MOMENT TENSOR: SCALE 10**26 D-CM
RR= 0.712 0.003; TT=-0.596 0.003
PP=-0.116 0.003; RT= 0.521 0.008
RP=-0.191 0.007; TP= 0.341 0.002
PRINCIPAL AXES:
1.(T) VAL=  0.899;PLG=71;AZM= 13
2.(N)       0.056;     4;    115
3.(P)      -0.955;    18;    206
BEST DBLE.COUPLE:M0= 9.27*10**25
NP1: STRIKE=303;DIP=27;SLIP=  99
NP2: STRIKE=113;DIP=63;SLIP=  86

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