Uninversity of Wisconsin Department of Geosciences
1/3/04 Southeast of Loyalty Islands 7.1 Mw Earthquake
1/3/04 Southeast of Loyalty IslandsFocal Mechanism
1/3/04 Southeast of Loyalty Islands Earthquake Focal Mechanism


Earthquake Details

Seismogram Explanation

Location: Southeast of Loyalty Islands

P-wave arrival time: not verified.

Date: January 3, 2004

S-wave arrival time: not verified.

Time: 16:23:19 (UTC); 10:23:19 am

The vertical axis is in units of displacement in centimeters.

Latitude: 22.35 S

The horizontal axis is in units of time in seconds.

Longitude: 169.61 E

The beginning of the file is the origin of the event.

Magnitude: 7.1 Mw

Depth: 32 km

Distance: 113.83 deg (7,859 miles from Milwaukee)


Updated as of by Brett Ketter

Seismograms created using Seismic Analysis Code (SAC; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Focal mecanisms created using Generic Mapping Tools (GMT; Wessel and Smith; University of Hawaii, Manoa)

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