Lake Tanganyika Region, Africa 6.8 Mw Earthquake Recorded at UWM

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Earthquake Details

Location: Lake Tanganyika Region, Africa
Date: December 5, 2005
Time: 12:19:55 UTC; 6:19:55 am CST
Latitude: 6.21 S
Longitude: 29.60 E
Magnitude: 6.8 Mw
Depth: 18 km
Distance: 114.17 deg (7,883 miles from Milwaukee)

Seismogram Explanation

Pdiff-wave arrival time: not verified.
Sdiff-wave arrival time: not verified.
The vertical axis is in units of displacement in centimeters.
The horizontal axis is in units of time in seconds.
The beginning of the file is the origin of the event.

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)