University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Department of Geosciences
9/6/04 South Sandwich Islands Region 6.9 Mw Earthquake
9/6/04 South Sandwich Islands Region Focal Mechanism
9/6/04 South Sandwich Islands Region Earthquake Focal Mechanism


Earthquake Details

Seismogram Explanation

Location: South Sandwich Islands Region

Pdiff-wave arrival time: Not verified.

Date: July 15, 2004

Sdiff-wave arrival time: Not verified.

Time: 12:42:59 (UTC); 7:42:59 am (local)

The vertical axis is in units of displacement in centimeters.

Latitude: 55.33 S

The horizontal axis is in units of time in seconds.

Longitude: 28.84 W

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

Magnitude: 6.9 Mw

Depth: 5 km

Distance: 110.08 deg (7,601 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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