University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Department of Geosciences
11/9/04 Solomon Islands 6.9 Mw Earthquake
11/9/04 Solomon Islands Focal Mechanism
11/9/04 Solomon Islands Earthquake Focal Mechanism


Earthquake Details

Seismogram Explanation

Location: Solomon Islands

Pdiff-wave arrival time: Not verified.

Date: November 9, 2004

Sdiff-wave arrival time: Not verified.

Time: 23:58:23 (UTC); 5:58:23 pm (local)

The vertical axis is in units of displacement in centimeters.

Latitude: 11.11 S

The horizontal axis is in units of time in seconds.

Longitude: 163.68 E

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

Magnitude: 6.9 Mw

Depth: 15 km

Distance: 110.95 deg (7,661 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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