Summary:

Magnitude	Mw 5.9
Region	GEORGIA (SAK'ART'VELO)
Date time	2009-09-07 at 22:41:36.5 UTC
Location	42.66 N ; 43.42 E
Depth	10 km
Distances	73 km NE Kutaisi (pop 178,338 ; local time 03:41 2009-09-08) 43 km N Chiatura (pop 12,216 ; local time 03:41 2009-09-08) 9 km NW Oni (pop 3,012 ; local time 03:41 2009-09-08)
More seismicity information (Moment tensors, phases pickings, etc.)

Maps:

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References for tectonic plate boundaries: Bird, P. (2003) An updated digital model of plate boundaries, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 4(3), 1027.

Google maps view: Seismicity from the previous 7 days in the area .

 Regional instrumental seismicity

This seismicity maps have been generated by concatenating the ISC catalogue (since 1964), the EMSC Euro-Med Bulletin catalogue and the EMSC Real Time catalogue. Therefore, they show the seismicity from 1964 until the earthquake occurrence.

More information at:

 Earthquake Research Department Ankara, Turkey
 Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute Istanbul, Turkey
 Seismic Monitoring Centre of Georgia (SMC) Tbilisi, Georgia
 Geophysical Survey. Russian Academy of Sciences Obninsk, Russia

List of data providers:

 Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Hannover/Erlangen, Germany (BGR)
 British Geological Survey, Global, EarlyBird, Edinburgh United Kingdom (BGSG)
 National Institute for Earth Physics, Bucharest, Romania (BUC)
 Earthquake Research Department, Ankara, Turkey (DDA)
 GeoForschungsZentrum (GEOFON), Potsdam, Germany (GFZ)
 Geophysical Survey. Russian Academy of Sciences, Obninsk, Russia (GSRC)
 Instituto de Meteorologia, Seismologia, Lisbon, Portugal (IMP)
 Italian National Seismic Network, Roma, Italy (INGV)
 Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Istanbul, Turkey (KAN)
 Laboratoire de Détection et de Géophysique, Bruyères-le-Châtel, France (LDG)
 Landesamt fuer Geologie, Rohstoffe und Bergbau, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany (LED)
 Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia, Seismological Office, Ljubljana, Slovenia (LJU)
 Carpathian Seismological Dept., Ukraine Academy of Science, Lviv Ukraine (LVV)
 Instituto Geografico Nacional, Madrid, Spain (MAD)
 Ukrainian NDC, Main Center of Special Monitoring, Kiev Ukraine (MCSM)
 Montenegro Seismological Observatory, Podgorica, Montenegro (MSO)
 USGS/NEIC, Denver, USA (NEIR)
 Norwegian Seismic Array, Kjeller, Norway (NEWS)
 Armenian National Survey for Seismic Protection, Yerevan , Armenia (NSSP)
 Instituto de Meteorologia, Ponta Delgada, Portugal (PDA)
 Réseau National de Surveillance Sismique, Strasbourg, France
Bureau Central de la Sismologie Francaise (BCSF) Strasbourg, France (RNS)
 Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan (RSSC)
 Swiss Seismological Service, Zuerich, Switzerland (SED)
 Department of Geophysics, University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece (THE)
 Seismic Monitoring Centre of Georgia (SMC), Tbilisi, Georgia (TIF)
 Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland (WAR)

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