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At 12.02 a.m., on Monday 14 November 2016 NZDT, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck 15 km north-east of Culverden, North Canterbury, starting near the town of Waiau.
Location history for this earthquake. The automatic earthquake location system makes many locations for each quake. Not all quakes have a location history.