East of Kuril Islands 7.9 Mw Earthquake Recorded at UWM

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Earthquake Details

Location: East of Kuril Islands
Date: January 13, 2007
Time: 04:23:20 UTC; 10:23:20 pm CST (1/12/07 local).
Latitude: 46.27 N
Longitude: 154.46 E
Magnitude: 7.9 Mw
Depth: 10 km
Distance: 75.26 deg (5,197 miles from Milwaukee)

Seismogram Explanation

P-wave arrival time: 04:35:09 UTC; 10:35:09 pm (1/12/07 local).
S-phase arrival time: 04:44:43 UTC; 10:44:43 pm (1/12/07 local).
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)