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Magnitude 5.1 earthquake recorded on North Island of New Zealand
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has been reported on the North Island of New Zealand. The event was recorded by a single monitoring source. Reports of damage, casualties, or specific focal depth have not been confirmed.
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WhereNew Zealand
-39.338, 174.352 ±400 km
First reported23 days ago
Published2026-10-02 14:11 UTC
Sources1
How this travelled.
Reports1Independent tellings1
1 independently corroborated telling.
Corrections and updates
No published correction or update is recorded. This does not reconstruct changes made before correction records were kept.
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Global Event Monitor. Magnitude 5.1 earthquake recorded on North Island of New Zealand. 2026-10-02T14:11:50.419Z. Status: published. urn:global-events-monitor:event:4405. https://global.eventmonitor.net/event/2026-10-02/m-5-1-north-island-of-new-zealand-f4a7a746
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