Summary:

Magnitude	mb 5.1
Region	SAMOA ISLANDS REGION
Date time	2009-11-25 at 10:05:53.0 UTC
Location	16.91 S ; 172.68 W
Depth	10 km
Distances	952 km E Suva (pop 199,455 ; local time 22:05 2009-11-25) 356 km SW Tafuna (pop 11,017 ; local time 23:05 2009-11-24) 237 km NE Neiafu (pop 4,320 ; local time 00:05 2009-11-26)
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:

 Department of Seismology, Geophysical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic (BRA)
 National Institute for Earth Physics, Bucharest, Romania (BUC)
 Geophysical Institute, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic (GFU)
 GeoForschungsZentrum (GEOFON), Potsdam, Germany (GFZ)
 Geophysical Survey. Russian Academy of Sciences, Obninsk, Russia (GSRC)
 Carpathian Seismological Dept., Ukraine Academy of Science, Lviv Ukraine (LVV)
 Montenegro Seismological Observatory, Podgorica, Montenegro (MSO)
 USGS/NEIC, Denver, USA (NEIR)
 Norwegian Seismic Array, Kjeller, Norway (NEWS)

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