New Zealand is located in Oceania.
New Zealand is located in Oceania.
It struck the Kermatek Islands early Thursday morning (local time).
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A magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit the Kermatek Islands at 12:56 a.m. (local time) on Thursday.An archipelago situated in the north New ZealandResponding officials issued a tsunami warning.
The quake was 980 kilometers from Ohonua in Tonga and 998 kilometers from the island nation’s capital, Nuku’alofa.
According to data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), which measures seismic activity around the world, the telluric movement is located at an ocean depth of 22 kilometers.
For his part, The US National Weather Service’s Tsunami Warning System has issued a tsunami warning It predicts waves for “coasts located up to 300 kilometers from the epicenter” and “less than 0.3 meters above the tide level”.
(Read more: How to Activate Earthquake Alerts on Your Cell Phone).
The Kermadec Islands, located between New Zealand and Tonga, are uninhabited except for personnel at a permanently established base on Raoul Island, which houses a weather and radio station.
New Zealand sits on a fault line between the Pacific and Oceanic tectonic plates and records around 14,000 earthquakes each year.Between 100 and 150 of these are perceptibly powerful.
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