M4.5 - 28km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands (BETA) 2013-02-06 20:11:21 UTC

Earthquake location 10.946°S, 165.955°E

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Summary

Location and Magnitude contributed by: USGS, NEIC, Golden, Colorado (and predecessors)

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Location and Magnitude contributed by: USGS, NEIC, Golden, Colorado (and predecessors)

Summary

Preferred Location Parameters

Parameter	Value	Uncertainty
Magnitude	4.5 mb	± 0.22
Location	10.946°S, 165.955°E	± 58.9 km
Depth	10.0 km	± 2.9 km
Number of Stations Used	11
Number of Phases Used	12
Minimum Distance	679.0 km (6.10°)
Travel Time Residual	0.74 sec
Azimuthal Gap	192°
Review Status	REVIEWED
Event ID	usc000f9i5

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Scientific and Technical Links

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Product	Title	Links	ID
historical-moment-tensor-map (Preferred) (US)	Historic USGS Moment Tensor Solutions Map	JPG (60 KB)	usc000f9i5
historical-moment-tensor-map (Preferred) (US)	Historic USGS Moment Tensor Solutions Table	TEXT (3 KB)	usc000f9i5
origin (Preferred) (US)	Earthquake XML (EQXML)	XML (2 KB)	usc000f9i5
p-wave-travel-times (Preferred) (US)	Theoretical P-Wave Travel Times Map for the World	GIF (107 KB)	usc000f9i5
p-wave-travel-times (Preferred) (US)	Theoretical P-Wave Travel Times Table	HTML (4 KB)	usc000f9i5
phase-data (Preferred) (US)	Earthquake XML (EQXML)	XML (7 KB)	usc000f9i5

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Data Contributors

USGS National Earthquake Information Center

U.S. Department of the Interior | U.S. Geological Survey
Page URL: http://comcat.cr.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usc000f9i5
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Page Last Modified: March 11, 2013 20:54:42 UTC

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