2007/01/05 16:52:21 55.83 -156.08 22
The following compares this source inversion to the USGS Rapid Moment Tensor Solution and to the Harvard CMT solutions, if they are available.
SLU Moment Tensor Solution 2007/01/05 16:52:21 Best Fitting Double Couple Mo = 3.27e+24 dyne-cm Mw = 5.61 Z = 20 km Plane Strike Dip Rake NP1 60 80 80 NP2 285 14 135 Principal Axes: Axis Value Plunge Azimuth T 3.27e+24 54 318 N 0.00e+00 10 62 P -3.27e+24 34 159 Moment Tensor: (dyne-cm) Component Value Mxx -1.31e+24 Mxy 1.98e+23 Mxz 2.57e+24 Myy 2.09e+23 Myz -1.60e+24 Mzz 1.10e+24 -------------- -----##########------- ---####################----- -##########################--- -##############################--- -#################################-- ########### #####################-## ############ T ###################----## ############ #################-------# ##############################-----------# ###########################--------------# ########################-----------------# #####################--------------------# #################----------------------- #############--------------------------- ########------------------------------ #-------------------- ------------ -------------------- P ----------- ------------------ --------- ---------------------------- ---------------------- -------------- Harvard Convention Moment Tensor: R T F 1.10e+24 2.57e+24 1.60e+24 2.57e+24 -1.31e+24 -1.98e+23 1.60e+24 -1.98e+23 2.09e+23 |
07/01/05 16:52:21.77 SOUTH OF ALASKA Epicenter: 55.832 -156.084 MW 5.8 USGS MOMENT TENSOR SOLUTION Depth 22 No. of sta: 37 Moment Tensor; Scale 10**17 Nm Mrr= 0.41 Mtt= 0.69 Mpp=-1.10 Mrt= 5.80 Mrp= 3.31 Mtp=-0.75 Principal axes: T Val= 6.79 Plg=46 Azm=340 N 0.00 10 240 P -6.79 42 141 Best Double Couple:Mo=6.8*10**17 NP1:Strike=160 Dip=10 Slip= 10 NP2: 60 88 100 ####### -################ ##################### -######################## --######## ################ --######### T ##############--- -########## ###########------ --#####################---------- -###################------------- -################---------------- --############------------------- --#########---------------------- --####-------------- -------- --#----------------- P -------- ###---------------- ------- ##----------------------- ##------------------- ###-------------- ####### |
CMT Moment Tensor Solution Best Fitting Double Couple Mo = 6.31e+24 dyne-cm Mw = 5.80 Z = 15 km Plane Strike Dip Rake NP1 61 87 89 NP2 254 3 103 Principal Axes: Axis Value Plunge Azimuth T 6.31e+24 48 330 N 0.00e+00 1 61 P -6.31e+24 42 152 Moment Tensor: (dyne-cm) Component Value Mxx -5.54e+23 Mxy 2.33e+23 Mxz 5.49e+24 Myy -8.82e+22 Myz -3.05e+24 Mzz 6.43e+23 -############- -####################- -##########################- ############################## -######### ##################### ########### T ###################### ############ ####################--- -################################------- ##############################---------- -##########################--------------- ########################------------------ #####################--------------------- #################------------------------- #############--------------------------- #########------------------------------- #####------------------ ------------ ---------------------- P ----------- --------------------- ---------- ------------------------------ ---------------------------- ---------------------- -------------- Harvard Convention Moment Tensor: R T F 6.43e+23 5.49e+24 3.05e+24 5.49e+24 -5.54e+23 -2.33e+23 3.05e+24 -2.33e+23 -8.82e+22 |
The following broadband stations passed the QC and were used for the source inversion. AAK ANMO ANTO ARU BBSR BFO CHTO DUG DWPF ERM ESK EYMN GRFO HRV HWUT INCN JCT KBS KEV KIEV KIV KONO KSU1 KVTX LAO MAJO MNTX NNA OBN PAYG PMG RSSD SSPA TATO TLY TUC WUAZ YAK YSS
All observed and Greens function waveforms are corrected to instrument response to ground velocity in meters/sec for the passband of 0.004 - 5 Hz. The traces were then lowpass filtered at 0.25 Hz and interpolated to a sample rate of 1 second.
For the deviatoric moment tensor inversion, the observed traces and Green's functions are read in an cut using the following commands
##### # Driver script for the teleseismic waveform inversion # # The depth HS must be of the form 0010 for a depth of 1.0 km # of 6700 for a depth of 670.0 km # # The Filter_Band is an integer with the following meansing # # FILTER_BAND 1/FH 1/FL # 1 60 12 for Mw < 6.4 # 2 100 20 6.4 =< Mw < 6.8 # 3 120 40 6.8 =< Mw < 7.2 # 4 143 80 7.2 =< Mw < 9.3 ##### # Source duration - halfwidth of triangular function # this filters only the Green functions # # halfwidth = 1.05 * 10-8 * M0^1/3 (M0 is dyne-cm) # # MW half-width (sec) # 5.0 0.75 # 6.0 2.45 # 7.0 7.7 # 8.0 24.5 # 9.0 74.3 # 0.5*(MW - 9) # or half-width=74.3*10 # or echo 5.69 | awk '{print 74.3*exp(0.5*log(10.0)*(0150 - 9.0)) }' ##### # Processing window for P (use SAC variable A for P arrival # Start A - 30 # End A + 2*HALFWIDTH + 0.03*HS + 30 + 1/FH # Processing window for SH (use SAC variable T0 for SH arrival # Start T0 - 60 # End T0 + 2*HALFWIDTH + 0.06*HS + 30 + 1/FH # Processing window for SV (use SAC variable T1 for SV arrival # Start T1 - 60 # End T1 + 2*HALFWIDTH + 0.06*HS + 30 + 1/FH # # The term involving HS serves to include the depth phases and # to exclude the PP or SS at most distanace #####The cut windows attempt to include the P, pP, sP, pS, S and sS arrivals. However, oen must be very careful about the fact that PP may be included in some distance ranges.
The waveforms are then bandpass filtered by the application of the following high- and low-pass stages (an optional microseism filter):
hp c 0.0167 2 lp c 0.0833 2 int br c 0.12 0.25 n 4 p 2The traces were next integrated to ground displacment in meters. Finally the observed data are interpolated to ahve the same sampling at the Green's functions.
The source inversion is a multipass operation since a lower frequency filter band is used for larger earthquakes and since a search is made over depth. Up to three passed of the outer loop are made, after which the moment magnitude is determined and filter settings readjusted. The inner loop over depth samples all depths from 0 to 800 km with 5 km increments in depth to 50 km, followed by 10 km depth sampling for the remaining range.
The following filter ranges are used according to the moment magnitude Mw:
FILTER_BAND 1/FH(s) 1/FL(s) 1 60 12 Mw < 6.4 2 100 20 6.4 < Mw <= 6.9 3 120 40 Mw > 6.9
The map displays the distribution of stations used for this source inversion.
![]() Location of the earthquake (yellow star) and great circle path from the epicenter to each station (red) [created using GMT (Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, New version of Generic Mapping Tools released, EOS Trans. AGU, 76 329, 1995.)] |
For this data set the favored solution is
WVFMTD96 15.0 57. 69. 63. 5.69 0.594 0.335E-06 0.596 0.771 0.158E-06 30.4
The following figures show the sensitivity of the goodness of fit parameter so source depth, the waveform comparison as a function of epicentral distance in degrees and the source to station azimuth
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Goodness of fit as a function of source depth. The measure is 1 - SUM (o -p)2 / SUM o2. A value of 1.0 is the best fit. The best double couple mechanism for the solution depth is plotted above goodness of fit value to indicate how the mefhanism may change with depth. |
P-wave Z component |
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Comparison of the observed traces (red) and solution predicted traces (blue) ordered in terms of increasing epicentral distance. Each pair of traces is annotated with the station name, epicentral distance in degrees, source to station azimuth in degrees. Each pair of traces is plotted with the same scale and the peak amplitudes are indicated at the lect of each trace. Finally the time shift between the P-wave first arrival picked and the the theoretical P-wave first arrival in the predicted trace is indicated, with a positive sign indicating that the predicted trace has been shifted to the right by the given number of seconds. as a function of source to station azimuth in degrees (D). The purpose of this display is to highlight the azimuthal dependence on the first motion. The traces are annotated with the station name at the top. |
SH-wave T component |
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Comparison of the observed traces (red) and solution predicted traces (blue) ordered in terms of increasing epicentral distance. Each pair of traces is annotated with the station name, epicentral distance in degrees, source to station azimuth in degrees. Each pair of traces is plotted with the same scale and the peak amplitudes are indicated at the lect of each trace. Finally the time shift between the P-wave first arrival picked and the the theoretical P-wave first arrival in the predicted trace is indicated, with a positive sign indicating that the predicted trace has been shifted to the right by the given number of seconds. as a function of source to station azimuth in degrees (D). The purpose of this display is to highlight the azimuthal dependence on the first motion. The traces are annotated with the station name at the top. |
SV-wave R component |
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Comparison of the observed traces (red) and solution predicted traces (blue) ordered in terms of increasing epicentral distance. Each pair of traces is annotated with the station name, epicentral distance in degrees, source to station azimuth in degrees. Each pair of traces is plotted with the same scale and the peak amplitudes are indicated at the lect of each trace. Finally the time shift between the P-wave first arrival picked and the the theoretical P-wave first arrival in the predicted trace is indicated, with a positive sign indicating that the predicted trace has been shifted to the right by the given number of seconds. as a function of source to station azimuth in degrees (D). The purpose of this display is to highlight the azimuthal dependence on the first motion. The traces are annotated with the station name at the top. |
All observed and Greens function waveforms are corrected to instrument response to ground velocity in meters/sec for the passband of 0.004 - 5 Hz. The traces were then lowpass filtered at 0.25 Hz and interpolated to a sample rate of 1 second.
For the deviatoric moment tensor inversion, the observed traces and Green's functions are read in an cut using the following commands
##### # Driver script for the teleseismic waveform inversion # # The depth HS must be of the form 0010 for a depth of 1.0 km # of 6700 for a depth of 670.0 km # # The Filter_Band is an integer with the following meansing # # FILTER_BAND 1/FH 1/FL # 1 60 12 for Mw < 6.4 # 2 100 20 6.4 =< Mw < 6.8 # 3 120 40 6.8 =< Mw < 7.2 # 4 143 80 7.2 =< Mw < 9.3 ##### # Source duration - halfwidth of triangular function # this filters only the Green functions # # halfwidth = 1.05 * 10-8 * M0^1/3 (M0 is dyne-cm) # # MW half-width (sec) # 5.0 0.75 # 6.0 2.45 # 7.0 7.7 # 8.0 24.5 # 9.0 74.3 # 0.5*(MW - 9) # or half-width=74.3*10 # or echo 5.72 | awk '{print 74.3*exp(0.5*log(10.0)*(0250 - 9.0)) }' ##### # Processing window for P (use SAC variable A for P arrival # Start A - 30 # End A + 2*HALFWIDTH + 0.03*HS + 30 + 1/FH # Processing window for SH (use SAC variable T0 for SH arrival # Start T0 - 60 # End T0 + 2*HALFWIDTH + 0.06*HS + 30 + 1/FH # Processing window for SV (use SAC variable T1 for SV arrival # Start T1 - 60 # End T1 + 2*HALFWIDTH + 0.06*HS + 30 + 1/FH # # The term involving HS serves to include the depth phases and # to exclude the PP or SS at most distanace #####The cut windows attempt to include the P, pP, sP, pS, S and sS arrivals. However, oen must be very careful about the fact that PP may be included in some distance ranges.
The waveforms are then bandpass filtered by the application of the following high- and low-pass stages (an optional microseism filter):
hp c 0.0167 2 lp c 0.0833 2 int br c 0.12 0.25 n 4 p 2The traces were next integrated to ground displacment in meters. Finally the observed data are interpolated to ahve the same sampling at the Green's functions.
The source inversion is a multipass operation since a lower frequency filter band is used for larger earthquakes and since a search is made over depth. Up to three passed of the outer loop are made, after which the moment magnitude is determined and filter settings readjusted. The inner loop over depth samples all depths from 0 to 800 km with 5 km increments in depth to 50 km, followed by 10 km depth sampling for the remaining range.
The following filter ranges are used according to the moment magnitude Mw:
FILTER_BAND 1/FH(s) 1/FL(s) 1 60 12 Mw < 6.4 2 100 20 6.4 < Mw <= 6.9 3 120 40 Mw > 6.9
The map displays the distribution of stations used for this source inversion.
![]() Location of the earthquake (yellow star) and great circle path from the epicenter to each station (red) [created using GMT (Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, New version of Generic Mapping Tools released, EOS Trans. AGU, 76 329, 1995.)] |
For this data set the favored solution is
WVFMTD96 25.0 318. 53. 96. 5.71 0.589 0.143E-06 0.574 0.769 0.116E-06 27.8
The following figures show the sensitivity of the goodness of fit parameter so source depth, the waveform comparison as a function of epicentral distance in degrees and the source to station azimuth
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Goodness of fit as a function of source depth. The measure is 1 - SUM (o -p)2 / SUM o2. A value of 1.0 is the best fit. The best double couple mechanism for the solution depth is plotted above goodness of fit value to indicate how the mefhanism may change with depth. |
P-wave Z component |
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Comparison of the observed traces (red) and solution predicted traces (blue) ordered in terms of increasing epicentral distance. Each pair of traces is annotated with the station name, epicentral distance in degrees, source to station azimuth in degrees. Each pair of traces is plotted with the same scale and the peak amplitudes are indicated at the lect of each trace. Finally the time shift between the P-wave first arrival picked and the the theoretical P-wave first arrival in the predicted trace is indicated, with a positive sign indicating that the predicted trace has been shifted to the right by the given number of seconds. as a function of source to station azimuth in degrees (D). The purpose of this display is to highlight the azimuthal dependence on the first motion. The traces are annotated with the station name at the top. |
All observed and Greens function waveforms are corrected to instrument response to ground velocity in meters/sec for the passband of 0.004 - 5 Hz. The traces were then lowpass filtered at 0.25 Hz and interpolated to a sample rate of 1 second.
For the grid search, the observed traces and Green's functions are read in an cut using the following commands
##### # Driver script for the teleseismic waveform inversion # # The depth HS must be of the form 0010 for a depth of 1.0 km # of 6700 for a depth of 670.0 km # # The Filter_Band is an integer with the following meansing # # FILTER_BAND 1/FH 1/FL # 1 60 12 for Mw < 6.4 # 2 100 20 6.4 =< Mw < 6.8 # 3 120 40 6.8 =< Mw < 7.2 # 4 143 80 7.2 =< Mw < 9.3 ##### # Source duration - halfwidth of triangular function # this filters only the Green functions # # halfwidth = 1.05 * 10-8 * M0^1/3 (M0 is dyne-cm) # # MW half-width (sec) # 5.0 0.75 # 6.0 2.45 # 7.0 7.7 # 8.0 24.5 # 9.0 74.3 # 0.5*(MW - 9) # or half-width=74.3*10 # or echo 5.61 | awk '{print 74.3*exp(0.5*log(10.0)*(0200 - 9.0)) }' ##### # Processing window for P (use SAC variable A for P arrival # Start A - 30 # End A + 2*HALFWIDTH + 0.03*HS + 30 + 1/FH # Processing window for SH (use SAC variable T0 for SH arrival # Start T0 - 60 # End T0 + 2*HALFWIDTH + 0.06*HS + 30 + 1/FH # Processing window for SV (use SAC variable T1 for SV arrival # Start T1 - 60 # End T1 + 2*HALFWIDTH + 0.06*HS + 30 + 1/FH # # The term involving HS serves to include the depth phases and # to exclude the PP or SS at most distanace #####The cut windows attempt to include the P, pP, sP, pS, S and sS arrivals. However, oen must be very careful about the fact that PP may be included in some distance ranges.
The waveforms are then bandpass filtered by the application of the following high- and low-pass stages (an optional microseism filter):
hp c 0.0167 2 lp c 0.0833 2 int br c 0.12 0.25 n 4 p 2The traces were next integrated to ground displacment in meters. Finally the observed data are interpolated to ahve the same sampling at the Green's functions.
The source inversion is a multipass operation since a lower frequency filter band is used for larger earthquakes and since a search is made over depth. Up to three passed of the outer loop are made, after which the moment magnitude is determined and filter settings readjusted. The inner loop over depth samples all depths from 0 to 800 km with 5 km increments in depth to 50 km, followed by 10 km depth sampling for the remaining range.
The following filter ranges are used according to the moment magnitude Mw:
FILTER_BAND 1/FH(s) 1/FL(s) 1 60 12 Mw < 6.4 2 100 20 6.4 < Mw <= 6.9 3 120 40 Mw > 6.9
The map displays the distribution of stations used for this source inversion.
![]() Location of the earthquake (yellow star) and great circle path from the epicenter to each station (red) [created using GMT (Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, New version of Generic Mapping Tools released, EOS Trans. AGU, 76 329, 1995.)] |
For this data set the favored solution is
WVFGRD96 20.0 60 80 80 5.61 0.6442
The following figures show the sensitivity of the goodness of fit parameter so source depth, the waveform comparison as a function of epicentral distance in degrees and the source to station azimuth
![]() |
Goodness of fit as a function of source depth. The measure is 1 - SUM (o -p)2 / SUM o2. A value of 1.0 is the best fit. The best double couple mechanism for the solution depth is plotted above goodness of fit value to indicate how the mefhanism may change with depth. |
P-wave Z component |
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Comparison of the observed traces (red) and solution predicted traces (blue) ordered in terms of increasing epicentral distance. Each pair of traces is annotated with the station name, epicentral distance in degrees, source to station azimuth in degrees. Each pair of traces is plotted with the same scale and the peak amplitudes are indicated at the lect of each trace. Finally the time shift between the P-wave first arrival picked and the the theoretical P-wave first arrival in the predicted trace is indicated, with a positive sign indicating that the predicted trace has been shifted to the right by the given number of seconds. as a function of source to station azimuth in degrees (D). The purpose of this display is to highlight the azimuthal dependence on the first motion. The traces are annotated with the station name at the top. |
SH-wave T component |
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Comparison of the observed traces (red) and solution predicted traces (blue) ordered in terms of increasing epicentral distance. Each pair of traces is annotated with the station name, epicentral distance in degrees, source to station azimuth in degrees. Each pair of traces is plotted with the same scale and the peak amplitudes are indicated at the lect of each trace. Finally the time shift between the P-wave first arrival picked and the the theoretical P-wave first arrival in the predicted trace is indicated, with a positive sign indicating that the predicted trace has been shifted to the right by the given number of seconds. as a function of source to station azimuth in degrees (D). The purpose of this display is to highlight the azimuthal dependence on the first motion. The traces are annotated with the station name at the top. |
SV-wave R component |
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Comparison of the observed traces (red) and solution predicted traces (blue) ordered in terms of increasing epicentral distance. Each pair of traces is annotated with the station name, epicentral distance in degrees, source to station azimuth in degrees. Each pair of traces is plotted with the same scale and the peak amplitudes are indicated at the lect of each trace. Finally the time shift between the P-wave first arrival picked and the the theoretical P-wave first arrival in the predicted trace is indicated, with a positive sign indicating that the predicted trace has been shifted to the right by the given number of seconds. as a function of source to station azimuth in degrees (D). The purpose of this display is to highlight the azimuthal dependence on the first motion. The traces are annotated with the station name at the top. |
All observed and Greens function waveforms are corrected to instrument response to ground velocity in meters/sec for the passband of 0.004 - 5 Hz. The traces were then lowpass filtered at 0.25 Hz and interpolated to a sample rate of 1 second.
For the grid search, the observed traces and Green's functions are read in an cut using the following commands
##### # Driver script for the teleseismic waveform inversion # # The depth HS must be of the form 0010 for a depth of 1.0 km # of 6700 for a depth of 670.0 km # # The Filter_Band is an integer with the following meansing # # FILTER_BAND 1/FH 1/FL # 1 60 12 for Mw < 6.4 # 2 100 20 6.4 =< Mw < 6.8 # 3 120 40 6.8 =< Mw < 7.2 # 4 143 80 7.2 =< Mw < 9.3 ##### # Source duration - halfwidth of triangular function # this filters only the Green functions # # halfwidth = 1.05 * 10-8 * M0^1/3 (M0 is dyne-cm) # # MW half-width (sec) # 5.0 0.75 # 6.0 2.45 # 7.0 7.7 # 8.0 24.5 # 9.0 74.3 # 0.5*(MW - 9) # or half-width=74.3*10 # or echo 5.63 | awk '{print 74.3*exp(0.5*log(10.0)*(0200 - 9.0)) }' ##### # Processing window for P (use SAC variable A for P arrival # Start A - 30 # End A + 2*HALFWIDTH + 0.03*HS + 30 + 1/FH # Processing window for SH (use SAC variable T0 for SH arrival # Start T0 - 60 # End T0 + 2*HALFWIDTH + 0.06*HS + 30 + 1/FH # Processing window for SV (use SAC variable T1 for SV arrival # Start T1 - 60 # End T1 + 2*HALFWIDTH + 0.06*HS + 30 + 1/FH # # The term involving HS serves to include the depth phases and # to exclude the PP or SS at most distanace #####The cut windows attempt to include the P, pP, sP, pS, S and sS arrivals. However, oen must be very careful about the fact that PP may be included in some distance ranges.
The waveforms are then bandpass filtered by the application of the following high- and low-pass stages (an optional microseism filter):
hp c 0.0167 2 lp c 0.0833 2 int br c 0.12 0.25 n 4 p 2The traces were next integrated to ground displacment in meters. Finally the observed data are interpolated to ahve the same sampling at the Green's functions.
The source inversion is a multipass operation since a lower frequency filter band is used for larger earthquakes and since a search is made over depth. Up to three passed of the outer loop are made, after which the moment magnitude is determined and filter settings readjusted. The inner loop over depth samples all depths from 0 to 800 km with 5 km increments in depth to 50 km, followed by 10 km depth sampling for the remaining range.
The following filter ranges are used according to the moment magnitude Mw:
FILTER_BAND 1/FH(s) 1/FL(s) 1 60 12 Mw < 6.4 2 100 20 6.4 < Mw <= 6.9 3 120 40 Mw > 6.9
The map displays the distribution of stations used for this source inversion.
![]() Location of the earthquake (yellow star) and great circle path from the epicenter to each station (red) [created using GMT (Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, New version of Generic Mapping Tools released, EOS Trans. AGU, 76 329, 1995.)] |
For this data set the favored solution is
WVFGRD96 20.0 60 80 70 5.63 0.6834
The following figures show the sensitivity of the goodness of fit parameter so source depth, the waveform comparison as a function of epicentral distance in degrees and the source to station azimuth
![]() |
Goodness of fit as a function of source depth. The measure is 1 - SUM (o -p)2 / SUM o2. A value of 1.0 is the best fit. The best double couple mechanism for the solution depth is plotted above goodness of fit value to indicate how the mefhanism may change with depth. |
P-wave Z component |
![]() |
Comparison of the observed traces (red) and solution predicted traces (blue) ordered in terms of increasing epicentral distance. Each pair of traces is annotated with the station name, epicentral distance in degrees, source to station azimuth in degrees. Each pair of traces is plotted with the same scale and the peak amplitudes are indicated at the lect of each trace. Finally the time shift between the P-wave first arrival picked and the the theoretical P-wave first arrival in the predicted trace is indicated, with a positive sign indicating that the predicted trace has been shifted to the right by the given number of seconds. as a function of source to station azimuth in degrees (D). The purpose of this display is to highlight the azimuthal dependence on the first motion. The traces are annotated with the station name at the top. |