Summary:

Magnitude	mb 5.8
Region	TONGA
Date time	2009-11-24 at 13:04:23.4 UTC
Location	20.67 S ; 174.04 W
Depth	10 km
Distances	839 km E Suva (pop 199,455 ; local time 01:04 2009-11-25) 133 km NE Nuku'alofa (pop 23,611 ; local time 03:04 2009-11-25) 101 km S Pangai (pop 1,738 ; local time 03:04 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)
 Department of Seismology, Geophysical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic (BRA)
 National Institute for Earth Physics, Bucharest, Romania (BUC)
 GeoForschungsZentrum (GEOFON), Potsdam, Germany (GFZ)
 Seismology Division, Geophysical Institute of Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel (GII)
 Geophysical Survey. Russian Academy of Sciences, Obninsk, Russia (GSRC)
 Instituto de Meteorologia, Seismologia, Lisbon, Portugal (IMP)
 USGS/NEIC, Denver, USA (NEIR)
 Seismological Observatory Skopje, Republic of Macedonia (SKO)
 Department of Geophysics, University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece (THE)

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