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Recent Quakes. Tongan Earthquake. NZ Standard Time: Thursday, May 04 2006 at 3:26 am Latitude, Longitude: 19.92°S, 174.34°W Focal Depth: 38 km Richter Magnitude: 7.9 170 km north-east of Nuku'alofa, Tonga Felt Auckland (and possibly elsewhere in NZ). Seismograph Data. Near Whangarei.
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Tongan Earthquake NZ Standard Time: Thursday, May 04 2006 at 3:26 am Latitude, Longitude: 19.92°S, 174.34°W Focal Depth: 38 km Richter Magnitude: 7.9170 km north-east of Nuku'alofa, TongaFelt Auckland (and possibly elsewhere in NZ)
Seismograph Data Near Whangarei
Seismograph Data Inland from Oamaru
Tonga quake prompts NZ tsunami warning 04 May 2006 A tsunami warning was issued for New Zealand and Fiji this morning following an earthquake near Tonga. The warning has now been cancelled. The quake, measuring 7.9 on the Richter Scale, hit 170km north-east of Tonga at 3.26 am (NZT), at a depth of 38km, GNS said. The tsunami warning was issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre at 3.42am. They said it was not known if the quake actually generated a tsunami. If it did it may have hit Fiji at 5.13am and Gisborne, on the east coast of the North Island at 6.21am.