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              European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre

                Rapid Determination of Source Parameters
          	operated at LDG (Paris) and IGN (Madrid)

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WARNING : These parameters are preliminary and subject to revision.
Location and magnitude estimations may be revised if necessary in 
an INFORMATION message.
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EARTHQUAKE on 08/09/2008 at 18:52 (UTC)
VANUATU                                31 km SE Vipaka

MAGNITUDE: Mw 7.0 

Data provided by: GFZ  JMA  LJU  NEIC PTWC                          

Latitude    =  13.49 S
Longitude   = 166.89 E
Origin Time =  18:52:08.9 (UTC)
Depth       = 132 Km
RMS         =   1.17 sec
Gap         =  48 degrees
95% confidence ellipse: - Semi major = 7.6 Km
                        - Semi minor = 7.1 Km
                        - Azimuth of major axis =  14 degrees

Number of data used = 66

Preliminary location computed on Mon Sep  8 19:19:03 2008 (UTC)
Done by Julien VERGOZ

Comments :

Message number: 1096

All magnitudes estimations :
M 7.1 (GFZ)   Mw6.8 (JMA)   M 7.0 (NEIC)  Mw6.8 (PTWC)  
Mw6.8 (PTWC)                                            


Sta       Phase     Date     Time       Res     Dist Azm    Net
---------------------------------------------------------------
HNR   m   P     2008/09/08 18:54:02.1  -0.3     7.91 299   NEIC
MSVF  m   P     2008/09/08 18:54:53.2   2.5    11.54 112   NEIC
FUNA  m   P     2008/09/08 18:55:11.3   1.2    13.05  69   NEIC
EIDS  m   P     2008/09/08 18:56:23.0   0.3    19.00 229   NEIC
PMG   m   P     2008/09/08 18:56:31.1   0.5    19.76 279   NEIC
AFI   m   P     2008/09/08 18:56:40.0  -0.5    20.73  93   NEIC
CTAO  m   P     2008/09/08 18:56:41.6   0.3    20.81 248   NEIC
ARMA  m   P     2008/09/08 18:56:53.8   1.0    21.96 217   NEIC
KWAJ  m   P     2008/09/08 18:56:55.8   1.2    22.16   1   NEIC
OUZ   m   P     2008/09/08 18:57:00.2   2.7    22.46 165   NEIC
COEN  m   P     2008/09/08 18:57:04.9   1.8    23.04 266   NEIC
URZ   m   P     2008/09/08 18:57:34.0   0.3    26.28 161   NEIC
MMPI  a   P     2008/09/08 18:57:38.0   2.4    26.49 278    GFZ
WPVZ  a   P     2008/09/08 18:57:39.7   1.7    26.73 164    GFZ
BKZ   a   P     2008/09/08 18:57:40.2   0.3    26.94 163    GFZ
CAN   m   P     2008/09/08 18:57:40.8  -0.2    27.07 213   NEIC
BFZ   a   P     2008/09/08 18:57:50.9  -1.2    28.30 164    GFZ
SNZO  m   P     2008/09/08 18:57:53.1  -1.1    28.54 167   NEIC
KHZ   m   P     2008/09/08 18:58:00.3  -1.5    29.39 169   NEIC
RPZ   m   P     2008/09/08 18:58:08.9  -1.2    30.33 174   NEIC
ODZ   m   P     2008/09/08 18:58:19.4  -1.9    31.61 174   NEIC
WAKE  m   P     2008/09/08 18:58:29.2  -0.4    32.57 359   NEIC
BAKI  a   P     2008/09/08 18:58:33.0   2.5    32.67 289    GFZ
KAKA  m   P     2008/09/08 18:58:37.6  -0.8    33.59 267   NEIC
BBOO  m   P     2008/09/08 18:58:41.2  -1.3    34.06 230   NEIC
GUMO  m   P     2008/09/08 18:58:46.8  -0.5    34.64 320   NEIC
JOHN  m   P     2008/09/08 18:59:17.1   1.5    38.01  38   NEIC
XMAS  m   P     2008/09/08 18:59:21.3   0.8    38.59  69   NEIC
FORT  m   P     2008/09/08 18:59:28.4  -0.6    39.63 237   NEIC
FITZ  m   P     2008/09/08 18:59:30.9  -0.4    39.90 257   NEIC
NLAI  a   P     2008/09/08 18:59:38.1   1.1    40.60 280    GFZ
MCQ   m   P     2008/09/08 18:59:42.9  -0.6    41.38 187   NEIC
TNTI  a   P     2008/09/08 18:59:46.8   1.1    41.66 286    GFZ
MMRI  a   P     2008/09/08 19:00:05.1   0.0    44.04 271    GFZ
MIDW  m   P     2008/09/08 19:00:05.9  -0.2    44.17  20   NEIC
MNI   a   P     2008/09/08 19:00:06.5  -0.2    44.25 286    GFZ
BBSI  a   P     2008/09/08 19:00:09.7   2.0    44.37 276    GFZ
KDI   a   P     2008/09/08 19:00:11.1   0.8    44.70 278    GFZ
LUWI  a   P     2008/09/08 19:00:16.2   0.4    45.39 282    GFZ
MBWA  m   P     2008/09/08 19:00:16.8  -0.1    45.53 253   NEIC
DAV   m   P     2008/09/08 19:00:21.5   2.2    45.83 294   NEIC
KAPI  m   P     2008/09/08 19:00:29.6  -0.5    47.21 275   NEIC
KIP   m   P     2008/09/08 19:00:43.0  -0.2    48.90  45   NEIC
NWAO  m   P     2008/09/08 19:00:43.3  -1.3    49.08 238   NEIC
KHU   m   P     2008/09/08 19:00:44.0  -1.9    49.21  49   NEIC
PUH   m   P     2008/09/08 19:00:47.3  -1.3    49.59  49   NEIC
PUH   m e pP    2008/09/08 19:01:16.9   0.0    49.59  49   NEIC
STCH  m   P     2008/09/08 19:00:48.1  -1.0    49.66  49   NEIC
STCH  m e pP    2008/09/08 19:01:19.0   1.6    49.66  49   NEIC
KKM   m   P     2008/09/08 19:01:21.0  -0.1    53.93 287   NEIC
JOW   m   P     2008/09/08 19:01:28.3   0.3    54.90 317   NEIC
MAJO  m   P     2008/09/08 19:01:39.1  -1.4    56.65 332   NEIC
TWG   m   P     2008/09/08 19:01:45.8  -1.3    57.58 308   NEIC
JNU   m   P     2008/09/08 19:01:47.3  -0.7    57.71 324   NEIC
YULB  m   P     2008/09/08 19:01:47.3  -0.9    57.73 309   NEIC
NACB  m   P     2008/09/08 19:01:48.8  -0.9    57.96 310   NEIC
KSM   m   P     2008/09/08 19:01:49.8  -0.3    58.02 280   NEIC
TPUB  m   P     2008/09/08 19:01:49.9  -1.4    58.19 308   NEIC
SSLB  m   P     2008/09/08 19:01:50.2  -1.3    58.22 309   NEIC
YHNB  m   P     2008/09/08 19:01:52.1  -0.8    58.41 310   NEIC
TATO  m   P     2008/09/08 19:01:52.7  -0.7    58.50 310   NEIC
INCN  m   P     2008/09/08 19:02:25.1  -0.5    63.25 324   NEIC
YSS   m   P     2008/09/08 19:02:29.8  -0.3    63.95 341   NEIC
SBA   m   P     2008/09/08 19:02:31.8  -1.0    64.36 180   NEIC
AMKA  m   P     2008/09/08 19:02:40.8   0.7    65.50   8   NEIC
SMY   m   P     2008/09/08 19:02:44.1  -0.7    66.24   4   NEIC


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