Magnitude 5.6 REYKJANES RIDGE
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 19:54:35 UTC
Historic USGS Moment Tensor Solutions
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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1998 02 16 23:53:19.72 52.718 -33.677 PDE| 14.0 6.6 1.1 19 |1.00 5 243 0.18 83 97 -1.18 4 333| 18 84 1 288 89 174| 69 GS
1998 02 25 19:05:51.67 53.936 -35.223 PDE| 2.0 5.6 3.1 17 |2.99 15 262 0.28 40 5 -3.27 46 155|311 46 -153 201 71 -47| 83 GS
1999 05 02 16:13:50.58 56.794 -34.268 PDE| 7.0 5.5 2.0 17 |1.86 5 108 0.30 1 18 -2.16 85 282|199 40 -89 18 50 -91| 72 GS
2001 11 09 05:36: 9.86 53.105 -35.150 PDE| 4.0 5.4 1.5 17 |1.47 18 108 0.09 7 16 -1.55 71 266|209 28 -75 13 63 -98| 88 GS
2004 04 06 21:40: 0.85 52.803 -34.729 PDE| 7.0 5.3 9.7 16 |0.90 1 77 0.16 2 347 -1.05 87 185|169 44 -86 344 46 -93| 70 GS
2004 07 01 08:39:50.17 54.065 -35.289 PDE| 20.0 5.3 1.0 17 |1.04 13 293 -0.03 8 25 -1.01 74 145| 13 32 -105 210 59 -81| 94 GS
2004 07 01 09:20:44.14 54.131 -35.259 PDE| 7.0 5.5 2.2 17 |2.23 10 121 -0.12 9 212 -2.11 77 344|199 36 -106 39 55 -79| 89 GS
2006 11 29 15:38:44.50 53.741 -35.438 PDE| 3.0 5.6 2.7 17 |2.64 3 125 0.15 20 34 -2.79 69 222|235 46 -61 17 51 -117| 89 GS
2007 05 23 04:41:46.54 52.352 -31.814 PDE| 6.0 5.6 2.7 17 |2.63 3 93 0.08 7 183 -2.71 82 340|176 43 -100 9 48 -81| 94 GS
Latest USGS Fast Moment Tensor Solutions
Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver
