Major quake strikes northeast of New Zealand’s Kermadec Islands, no tsunami threat
U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
A major earthquake struck northeast of New Zealand’s Kermadec Islands this morning.
A major earthquake northeast of the Kermadec Islands does not pose a tsunami threat to Hawaii or the Pacific region.
The magnitude 7.4 quake struck 425 miles northeast of Opotiki, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, at 2:49 a.m. Hawaii time at a depth of 6.2 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.”
Based on all available data a destructive Pacific-wide tsunami is not expected and there is no tsunami threat to Hawaii,” the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said in a bulletin.
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