GeoNet Aotearoa New Zealand Earthquake Moment Tensor Solutions

A moment tensor describes the source parameters of an earthquake such as the focal mechanism (the geometry of how the crust ruptured in the earthquake) and the seismic moment (the amount of energy released). Since August 2003 when sufficient broadband seismometers were deployed, GeoNet has been able to routinely compute moment tensor solutions for New Zealand earthquakes with M > ~4. The CSV file of moment tensor solutions is updated when a moment tensor solution is calculated. Moment Tensor Solutions can be found in Github here: https://github.com/GeoNet/data/tree/main/moment-tensor. DOI: 10.21420/MMJ9-CZ67 Cite as: GNS Science. (2006). GeoNet Aotearoa New Zealand Earthquake Moment Tensor solutions [Data set]. GNS Science, GeoNet. https://doi.org/10.21420/MMJ9-CZ67