Summary:

Magnitude	mb 4.8
Region	SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS
Date time	2009-01-16 at 19:11:07.4 UTC
Location	22.45 S ; 170.55 E
Depth	100 km
Distances	952 km SW Suva (pop 199,455 ; local time 07:11 2009-01-17) 382 km SE Wé (pop 10,375 ; local time 06:11 2009-01-17) 293 km E Tadine (pop 7,492 ; local time 06:11 2009-01-17)
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:

 GeoForschungsZentrum (GEOFON), Potsdam, Germany (GFZ)
 Geophysical Survey. Russian Academy of Sciences, Obninsk, Russia (GSRC)
 USGS/NEIC, Denver, USA (NEIR)

Witnesses Reports:

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