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(11-15-2016, 08:57 PM)marc / berkeley Wrote: The Moment Tensor solution looked mighty intereesting.

Mostly thrust, but with a volcanic fluid component.  Are we going to see magma?

That combined with the successive triggering along the faulting makes this event far more interesting than a typical strike-slip.

You can bet this will be one of the poster child at next months AGU!

This was brought up on that "other board" several times many years ago, and I directed folks to the following document:

http://serc.carleton.edu/files/NAGTWorks...primer.pdf

Specifically, look at page 9. The beach ball as you see it is most likely just showing the uncertainty in the focal mechanism solution.

Brian