Magnitude 5.3 ASCENSION ISLAND REGION
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 at 08:33:55 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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1992 09 21 10:18:49.33 -7.816 -13.585 PDE| 29.0 5.6 3.1 17 |3.07 9 24 0.00 62 132 -3.07 26 290| 70 65 -168 334 79 -25|100 GS
1998 06 18 04:17:54.98 -11.572 -13.894 PDE| 3.0 6.2 2.3 18 |2.25 14 296 0.11 76 106 -2.36 2 205|340 78 172 71 82 12| 91 GS
2001 03 07 18:10:58.65 -6.810 -12.911 PDE| 13.0 5.9 9.6 17 |1.01 15 122 -0.11 75 286 -0.90 4 31|165 77 172 257 82 13| 78 GS
2001 07 12 06:12:16.79 -7.429 -13.378 PDE| 5.0 5.4 1.8 17 |1.79 0 83 0.01 14 352 -1.81 76 173|186 46 -71 339 47 -109| 99 GS
2006 07 10 07:21:37.88 -11.627 -13.432 PDE| 26.0 5.5 2.5 17 |2.22 1 121 0.60 76 213 -2.82 14 31|167 80 -170 75 80 -10| 57 GS
Latest USGS Fast Moment Tensor Solutions
Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver
