A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck off New Zealand’s Kermadec Islands late today, the US Geological Survey reported.
The quake hit at 1219 GMT today at a depth of 34 km, about 161 km south of Raoul Island in the Kermadecs.
The largely uninhabited islands are northeast of New Zealand’s North Island.
A magnitude 6.0 quake struck off North Island on Saturday.
A shallow 6.3-magnitude quake devastated the New Zealand city of Christchurch in the South Island in February last year, leaving 185 people dead.
The country sits on the so-called “Ring of Fire”, the boundary of the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates, and experiences up to 15,000 tremors a year.
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