Summary:

Magnitude	Mw 6.8
Region	TONGA
Date time	2009-11-24 at 12:47:17.0 UTC
Location	20.57 S ; 173.38 W
Depth	60 km
Distances	901 km E Suva (pop 199,455 ; local time 00:47 2009-11-25) 201 km E Nuku'alofa (pop 23,611 ; local time 02:47 2009-11-25) 133 km SE Pangai (pop 1,738 ; local time 02:47 2009-11-25)
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:

 USGS/NEIC Denver, USA

List of data providers:

 Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Hannover/Erlangen, Germany (BGR)
 British Geological Survey, Global, EarlyBird, Edinburgh United Kingdom (BGSG)
 GeoForschungsZentrum (GEOFON), Potsdam, Germany (GFZ)
 Geophysical Survey. Russian Academy of Sciences, Obninsk, Russia (GSRC)
 Laboratoire de Détection et de Géophysique, Bruyères-le-Châtel, France (LDG)
 Instituto Geografico Nacional, Madrid, Spain (MAD)
 USGS/NEIC, Denver, USA (NEIR)
 Norwegian Seismic Array, Kjeller, Norway (NEWS)

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