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This earthquake followed two earlier shakes of magnitude 5.7 and 5.8 in the previous two days. It caused damage to buildings on both sides of Cook Strait.
Location history for this earthquake. The automatic earthquake location system makes many locations for each quake. Not all quakes have a location history.