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Moment tensor solutions

PDE

YR	MO	DA	HR	MN	SEC	LAT	LON	DEPTH(Km)	Mw	Region
2008	04	09	12	46	12.7	-20.07	168.89	33	7.3	LOYALTY ISLANDS

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

YR	MO	DA	HR	MN	SEC	LAT	LON	DEPTH(Km)
2008	04	09	12	46	12	-19.94	168.85	40

Exp	Mrr	Mrt	Mrf	Mtt	Mtf	Mff
26	6.711	2.434	-3.413	-0.500	1.450	-6.211
	(0.064)	(0.102)	(0.096)	(0.092)	(0.080)	(0.112)

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
7.84e+26	0.051	7.2	357	31	108	155	61	79

High frequency P wave duration time and Magnitude (following Hara 2007)

Duration(s)	M
12.70	7.11

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Aftershock distribution

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

LONG	LAT	DEPTH	M	Strike1	Dip1	Strike2	Dip2
								169.0328	-20.2667	44.49	7.3	340	30	148	61

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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/2008/us2008qqa2/