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At 4.37 a.m., on the 2 September 2016, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck off the northern East Coast of North Island, 125 north-east of Te Araroa.
Location history for this earthquake. The automatic earthquake location system makes many locations for each quake. Not all quakes have a location history.