Monday, 4 May 2015

New Zealand’s South Island Tourism Center hit by severe earthquake


earthquakeAn earthquake of magnitude 5.8 hit the New Zealand ski resort towns of Queenstown and Wanaka on Monday. The earthquake, which struck at 2:29 p.m., had its epicenter 30 km northwest of the tourist town of Wanaka in the South Island, and at a depth of 4 km.




However, initially the quake was measured as 6.0 magnitude at a depth of 5 km.


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