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Magnitude 7.4 SIMEULUE, INDONESIA

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 08:08:30 UTC

Global CMT Project Moment Tensor Solution


February 20, 2008, SIMEULUE, INDONESIA, MW=7.4

Goran Ekstrom

CENTROID-MOMENT-TENSOR  SOLUTION
GCMT EVENT:     M200802200808A  
DATA: II IU CU IC G  GE 
MANTLE WAVES:   95S, 225C, T=150
TIMESTAMP:      Q-20080220102224
CENTROID LOCATION:
ORIGIN TIME:      08:08:45.6 0.1
LAT: 2.73N 0.02;LON: 95.93E 0.01
DEP: 15.2  0.6;TRIANG HDUR: 12.6
MOMENT TENSOR: SCALE 10**27 D-CM
RR= 0.422 0.003; TT=-0.272 0.002
PP=-0.150 0.002; RT= 1.270 0.062
RP=-1.100 0.057; TP= 0.195 0.001
PRINCIPAL AXES:
1.(T) VAL=  1.736;PLG=52;AZM= 42
2.(N)      -0.009;     1;    311
3.(P)      -1.727;    38;    220
BEST DBLE.COUPLE:M0= 1.73*10**27
NP1: STRIKE=302;DIP= 7;SLIP=  81
NP2: STRIKE=131;DIP=83;SLIP=  91

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