• Slip values (potentially also rake, rise time, or rupture onset time) are arranged into a 2D array with the along-strike direction printed in rows, the down-dip direction printed in columns, starting at the top-left corner of the rupture plane when viewed at an angle of 90° from strike.
• Multi-segment ruptures are projected onto a single rupture plane using an average strike of all (or the most prominent) segments.
• The header provides the most important source and modeling parameters:

• Event name, Event date, Reference
• Eventtag
• LATitude, LONgitude and DEPth of the of the hypcenter
• LENgth of and WIDth of the rupture plane, moment magnitude Mw and seismic moment Mo
• Average STRiKe and DIP of fault plane, average RAKE of slip vector, vertical depth to top of rupture plane (HTOP)
• HypX, HypZ: rupture nucleation point in fault-plane coordinates (starting at top-left corner)
• avTr, avVr: average rise time and rupture velocity
• inDx, inDz: subfault size in along-strike and down-dip direction, respectively,
• Fmin, Fmax: minimum and maximum frequency of bandpass filtered seismic data (Fmin = Fmax = 0 for purely geodetic models)
• Nx, Nz: number of subfaults in each direction (x: along-strike, z: down-dip)
• Note : zero entries indicate that the parameter doesn't apply to this source model; the value = -99 means this parameter is spatially variable over the fault plane; the value = 999 indicates that the value is currently not known, but should be present.

% ------------------------- FINITE-SOURCE SLIP MODEL ---------------------------
%
% Evnt : Imperial Valley (Calif.) 10/15/1979 [Archuleta(1984)]
% EventTAG: s1979IMPERIarch
%
% Loc : LAT = 32.644 LON = -115.309 DEP = 8.00
% Size : LEN = 35.00 km WID = 13.00 km Mw = 6.53 Mo = 6.99e+018 Nm
% Mech : STRK = 323 DIP = 80 RAKE = 180 Htop = 0.01 km
% Rupt : HypX = 0.00 km HypZ = 8.00 km avTr = 0.9 s avVr = -99.0 km/s
% Invs : inDx = 2.50 km inDz = 1.00 km Fmin = 0.00 Hz Fmax = 1.0 Hz
% Invs : Nx = 14 Nz = 15
%
% Check corresponding file -- s1979IMPERIarch.fsp -- for details & exact geometry
%
% rows : source-parameter values in along-strike direction (row 1 == top)
% cols : source-parameter values in down-dip direction
%
% 22-Jul-2007, collected by P.Martin Mai (mai@sed.ethz.ch)
% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% ----------------------------- TOTAL SLIP [m] -------------------------------
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.26 0.26 0.23 0.18 0.17 0.11 0.12 0.14 0.18 0.22 0.11 0.03
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.20 0.20 0.13 0.15 0.14 0.10 0.11 0.13 0.15 0.20 0.09 0.03
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.11 0.11 0.11 0.12 0.11 0.12 0.12 0.13 0.15 0.20 0.10 0.02
........ many rows omitted here ....

% ------------------------ RUPTURE ONSET TIMES [sec] -------------------------
5.47 6.32 6.64 7.21 7.78 8.36 8.95 9.77 10.59 11.31 12.03 12.33 12.62 13.28 13.92
4.47 5.15 5.16 5.70 6.49 7.03 7.57 8.01 8.46 9.06 9.81 10.47 11.14 11.68 12.33
4.26 4.94 4.82 5.03 5.62 6.22 6.81 7.42 7.84 8.33 9.27 9.97 10.67 11.57 12.33
........ many rows omitted here ....