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Moment tensor solutions

PDE

YR	MO	DA	HR	MN	SEC	LAT	LON	DEPTH(Km)	Mw	Region
2005	09	09	07	26	43.7	-4.54	153.47	90	7.6	NEW IRELAND REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

IISEE CMT
Principal Investigator: Tatsuhiko Hara (IISEE. E-mail: thara at kenken.go.jp)

YR	MO	DA	HR	MN	SEC	LAT	LON	DEPTH(Km)
2005	09	09	7	27	10	-4.94	153.67	90

Exp	Mrr	Mrt	Mrf	Mtt	Mtf	Mff
27	1.628	-0.610	1.088	-0.705	0.558	-0.923
	(0.018)	(0.013)	(0.015)	(0.032)	(0.028)	(0.037)

A number in brackets below each component is an error for that components

Moment of the earthquake	Non-double-couple component	Mw	strike1	dip1	slip1	strike2	dip2	slip2
1.95e+27	0.125	7.46	327	65	94	137	26	81

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Aftershock distribution

IISEE :
Principal Investigator: Nobuo Hurukawa (IISEE. E-mail: hurukawa at kenken.go.jp)

LONG	LAT	DEPTH	M	Strike	Dip	Size of 7 days' Aftershock Area(km)
						strike	dip
153.643	-4.5754	135.99	7.6	140	30	20	170

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Rupture process

Principal Investigator: Yuji Yagi (Tsukuba University/ IISEE visiting researcher. E-mail: yagi-y at geol.tsukuba.ac.jp)

Slip distribution
Focal mechanism and source time function

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Further information

Title	URL
Preliminary Earthquake Report (USGS)	http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2005/uscuah/