Wild Land

A major earthquake struck the Kermadec Islands this morning New Zealand time.

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A burst of earthquake activity rippled through the South Pacific overnight, with quakes striking Tonga, Fiji and the Kermadec Islands.

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Cooling of the hydrothermal system at Mt. Ruapehu has ceased and the volcano appears to have entered another cycle of heating.

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More than a dozen earthquakes, most of them small, have followed this morning’s earthquake under Lake Taupo. The latest outburst is a continuation of an earthquake swarm under the volcanic lake, which has produced as many as 50 quakes in the last two months.

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A major earthquake struck off the coast of northern Japan just after midday today, New Zealand time.

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A strong, deep earthquake struck the Molucca Sea near the equator at midday today.

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A major earthquake struck Vanuatu this morning, New Zealand time. The quake was located north of yesterday’s magnitude 6.2 quake, closer to the epicentre of Saturday morning’s event.

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A shallow, strong earthquake struck Vanuatu this afternoon.

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Earthquake activity in the south-west of the Pacific Ocean has increased this week. Fifteen quakes of magnitude 5 or greater have been reported from the Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, the Kermadecs, and New Zealand.

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New Zealand’s third earthquake of 5th magnitude in a fortnight struck the north of the South Island this afternoon.

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A moderately strong earthquake struck the Kermadec Islands early this morning. The magnitude 5.4 quake, which struck at 4:10 a.m. on Friday the 5th of September 2008, was located 105 km east of L’Esperance Rock (255 km south of Raoul Island) at a depth of 22 km.

[Compiled from data supplied by the U.S. Geological Survey and its contributing agencies.]

Earthquake activity near Matata in the Bay of Plenty has reactivated overnight.

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Some residents of Lake Tarawera and Okareka had a restless night on Sunday when a swarm of ten small and very shallow earthquakes rattled houses around 11 p.m. One resident reports a nervy and restless dog which settled down after the largest of the quakes struck.

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A strong earthquake struck to the north of the Kermadec Islands late this afternoon.

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A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck near Lake Taupo early this afternoon.

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