A strong earthquake struck south of New Zealand this afternoon.
Wednesday, 20th September 2017
A strong earthquake struck south of New Zealand at 1:44 this afternoon. The U.S. Geological Survey reports the earthquake as magnitude 6.1, centred 256 km west of Auckland Island at a depth of 10km. The epicentre is 615 km south-west of Invercargill.
[click for larger image] The earthquake left a clear trace on New Zealand’s seismograph network, just before the trace left by the magnitude 5.1 quake centred near Seddon at 2:42 p.m.