WELLINGTON: A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of New Zealand Tuesday, but no tsunami warning was immediately issued, US seismologists said.
The shallow earthquake hit at 8:28 am (1928 GMT Monday), the US
Geological Survey said, and was centered 219 kilometres (136 miles) northwest of the Auckland Islands, an archipelago due south of New Zealand’s South Island.
The quake struck less than a week before the fifth anniversary of a deadly 6.3-magnitude tremor in Christchurch, which killed 185 in one of New Zealand’s deadliest disasters.
