An earthquake struck New Zealand’s on Wednesday evening as residents of the North Island begin the clean up process after Cyclone Gabrielle left the country.
Tremors were felt from lower North Island to the upper South Island, with GeoNet upgrading its initial 6.1 magnitude assessment to a magnitude of 6.3.
It struck at a depth of 50 kilometres (31 miles) and around 50 kilometres northwest of Paraparaumu town, which is 55 kilometres north of the capital city, Wellington.
No tsunami warning was sounded because the quake was “too deep to perturb seafloor,” GeoNet wrote on Twitter. We have updated the Cook Strait mainshock to M6.3.
Currently we have recorded 6 aftershocks in the sequence, ranging from M1.6-M3.3….