Japan: 5.2-magnitude quake hits Izu Islands
Hong Kong, May 8: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted Izu Islands, Japan at 04:19:07 GMT on Saturday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.
The epicenter, with a depth of 79.86 km, was initially determined to be at 31.9839 degrees north latitude and 140.3214 degrees east longitude.
Magnitude 3.7 earthquake hits southern new Zealand
A magnitude 3.7 earthquake was registered in southern New Zealand on Saturday morning, local geological agency GeoNet said.
“More than 2000 felt reports for this one, a M3.7 earthquake with light shaking. It’s a reminder that ten years on, the Canterbury aftershock sequence is still ongoing,” GeoNet wrote on Twitter.
Tremors were registered at 1714 hrs GMT on Friday. The epicenter was located 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) east of the city of Christchurch, at the depth of 6 kilometers.
The island nation also felt aftershocks later in the day. The shocks, standing at a magnitude of 2.9, were registered 5 kilometers south-east of the town of Seddon at around 1636 hrs.
New Zealand is located in a seismically active zone known as the Ring of Fire and regularly suffers from powerful earthquakes. On February 22, 2011, the 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit New Zealand’s city of Christchurch, leaving 185 people dead and more than 1,500 injured.
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