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New Delhi: A massive earthquake of magnitude 6.1 on the Richter Scale struck northwest of Wellington, New Zealand, on Wednesday. According to GeoNet, the quake was reported at 7.38 pm around 50km northwest of Paraparaumu at a depth of 48km.
Within 15 minutes, over 31000 people reported on GeoNet that they had felt the earthquake.
The National Emergency Management Agency has advised there is no tsunami threat, the Wellington Region Emergency Management Office shared on Facebook.
According to the report, a short time later a magnitude 4.0 earthquake hit 45km southwest of Taumarunui and at a depth of 78km.
This comes days after a powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.8 on the Richter scale struck Turkey and neighboring Syria.
(More details are awaited)
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