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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 2007/11/12 00:25:44 Best Fitting Double Couple Mo = 5.69e+24 dyne-cm Mw = 5.77 Z = 5 km Plane Strike Dip Rake NP1 135 70 45 NP2 26 48 153 Principal Axes: Axis Value Plunge Azimuth T 5.69e+24 45 360 N 0.00e+00 42 154 P -5.69e+24 13 256 Moment Tensor: (dyne-cm) Component Value Mxx 2.49e+24 Mxy -1.29e+24 Mxz 3.15e+24 Myy -5.07e+24 Myz 1.21e+24 Mzz 2.59e+24 ############## #####################- #########################--- ############# ##########---- ---############ T ###########----- -----########### ###########------ ------#########################------- --------########################-------- ----------######################-------- ------------#####################--------- -------------###################---------- ---------------#################---------- -- ------------##############----------- - P -------------############----------- - ---------------#########------------ ---------------------#####------------ ----------------------##------------ ---------------------###---------- -----------------##########--- --------------############## -------############### ############## Harvard Convention Moment Tensor: R T F 2.59e+24 3.15e+24 -1.21e+24 3.15e+24 2.49e+24 1.29e+24 -1.21e+24 1.29e+24 -5.07e+24 |
USGS research CMT: maintained and developed by Jascha Polet at Cal Poly Pomona. This is a research system and solutions are *not* official USGS earthquake magnitudes. AUTOMATIC solution, not reviewed by a seismologist -------------------------------------------------- General region : 2007jqab SOUTH OF MARIANA ISLANDS surface waves (3.0,3.5,7,7.5 mHz) Stations used : CTAO INCN KIP KURK MAJO TAU TLY ULN Origin time: 2007 316 0 25 47 Original location (lat,lon,depth) : 10.40000 145.700 35 Moment tensor (x1.e26 dyncm) : Mrr : 0.018335 Mtt : 0.012830 Mff : -0.031165 Mrt : -0.008538 Mrf : 0.116618 Mtf : 0.029054 T-axis: moment= 0.114 plunge= 49.720 azimuth= 280.512 N-axis: moment= 0.017 plunge= 12.256 azimuth= 175.660 P-axis: moment= -0.131 plunge= 37.638 azimuth= 76.016 best double couple: Mo= 0.123(x1.e26 dyncm) Mw=6.0 tau= 2.8 nodal planes (strike/dip/slip): 357.01/ 83.82/102.33 113.23/ 13.77/ 26.89 Centroid location : 10.892 145.927 19.603 Centroid time : 1.316 Variance reduction (%) : 12 *********** ****----oo **** ***---------o *** **------------o ** **-------------oo ** *----------------o * *-----------------o * **-----------------o ** *------------------o P * **--------T---------o ** **o----------------+o ** **o-----------------oo ** *oo-----------------o * **o-----------------o ** *ooo---------------o o* *-oo--------------o o* **ooo------------o o** **-oooo--------oo- oo** ***-ooooo----o--- oooo*** ****-oooooooooo**** *********** 0- 30- 60- 90- 120- 150- 180- 210- 240- 270- 300- 330- z-comp: 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 r-comp: 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 t-comp: 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 Total number of traces used = 16 number of runs = 6 starttime = Sun Nov 11 17:53:27 MST 2007 endtime = Sun Nov 11 18:08:08 MST 2007 inversion time = Sun Nov 11 18:08:02 MST 2007 - Sun Nov 11 18:08:07 MST 2007 Solution produced by inversion of channels with var red > 2% |
The following broadband stations passed the QC and were used for the source inversion. CTAO DUG NEW NWAO TLY ULN WRAB
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 5.78 | awk '{print 74.3*exp(0.5*log(10.0)*(0050 - 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 5.0 135 70 45 5.77 0.5041
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 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 5.70 | awk '{print 74.3*exp(0.5*log(10.0)*(0050 - 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 5.0 80 5 -20 5.79 0.2953
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. |
Starting Processing : Wed Nov 14 03:41:41 UTC 2007 Starting query to get files : Wed Nov 14 03:41:41 UTC 2007 Starting stareq for response: Wed Nov 14 03:43:55 UTC 2007 Starting deconvolution : Wed Nov 14 03:50:10 UTC 2007 Starting trace rotation : Wed Nov 14 03:52:02 UTC 2007 Starting distance selection : Wed Nov 14 03:52:33 UTC 2007 Starting trace QC : Wed Nov 14 03:52:39 UTC 2007 Starting Grid Search : Wed Nov 14 03:54:48 UTC 2007 Starting documentation : Wed Nov 14 04:00:51 UTC 2007