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Magnitude 7.6 NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA

Saturday, January 03, 2009 at 19:43:50 UTC

Global CMT Project Moment Tensor Solution


January 3, 2009, NEAR N COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA, MW=7.6

Goran Ekstrom
Meredith Nettles

CENTROID-MOMENT-TENSOR  SOLUTION
GCMT EVENT:     C200901031943A  
DATA: II IU CU IC G  GE 
L.P.BODY WAVES:106S, 280C, T= 50
MANTLE WAVES:  107S, 278C, T=150
SURFACE WAVES: 102S, 249C, T= 50
TIMESTAMP:      Q-20090103194921
CENTROID LOCATION:
ORIGIN TIME:      19:44:09.4 0.1
LAT: 0.34S 0.01;LON:132.87E 0.01
DEP: 18.1  0.4;TRIANG HDUR: 15.9
MOMENT TENSOR: SCALE 10**27 D-CM
RR= 2.230 0.014; TT=-1.850 0.009
PP=-0.377 0.009; RT=-1.080 0.078
RP= 2.260 0.099; TP= 1.140 0.006
PRINCIPAL AXES:
1.(T) VAL=  3.562;PLG=61;AZM=261
2.(N)      -0.253;    18;    136
3.(P)      -3.306;    22;     38
BEST DBLE.COUPLE:M0= 3.43*10**27
NP1: STRIKE= 98;DIP=28;SLIP=  49
NP2: STRIKE=323;DIP=69;SLIP= 109

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