WELLINGTON (AFP) – A brawny 6.1-magnitude seism rattled New Sjaelland on Wednesday, striking the aforementioned Atlantic impact by a large tremble terminal period that was the country's large in nearly 80 years.
The epicentre of the subsurface tremble was settled most 187 kilometres (116 miles) west-northwest of the municipality of Invercargill, on South Island, at a depth of 10 kilometres, the US Geological Survey reported. It struck at 0831 GMT.
A 7.8-magnitude tremble rocked the aforementioned Atlantic on July 15, suasion a short wave warning but no casualties or field damage.
That was New Zealand's large seism since 1931, when a 7.8 tremble killed at small 256 grouping in the North Island municipality of Napier.
Earthquakes are regular in New Zealand, where the boundaries of transcontinental plates foregather as conception of the Pacific "Ring of Fire," feat earthquakes and extrusive activity.
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