University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Department of Geosciences
6/28/04 Queen Charlotte Is. Region 6.8 Mw Earthquake
6/28/04 Queen Charlotte Is. Region Focal Mechanism
6/28/04 Queen Charlotte Is. Region Earthquake Focal Mechanism


Earthquake Details

Seismogram Explanation

Location: Queen Charlotte Is. Region

P-wave arrival time: 09:56:15 (UTC); 4:56:15 am (local)

Date: June 28, 2004

S-wave arrival time: Not Verified.

Time: 09:49:48 (UTC); 4:49:48 am (local)

The vertical axis is in units of displacement in centimeters.

Latitude: 55.02 N

The horizontal axis is in units of time in seconds.

Longitude: 134.36 W

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

Magnitude: 6.8 Mw

Depth: 26 km

Distance: 31.99 deg (2,209 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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