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Magnitude 8.0 earthquake Samoa Islands Region on September 29, 2009

A major earthquake occurred at 17:48:11 (UTC) on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 in the Samoa Islands Region, 185 km (115 miles) east-northeast of Hihifo, Tonga.  

The magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurred at a depth of 18 kilometers (11.2 miles). 

For more information on this event, see this USGS site:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2009mdbi.php

The earthquake was recorded on instruments in the Kentucky Seismic and Strong Motion Network, operated jointly by the Kentucky Geological Survey and the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Kentucky.

The graphic below is the actual record of the earthquake made by 5 Network instruments.

 

 

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