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At 2:27 a.m., on Friday 5 March 2021 NZDT, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck 125 km east of Te Araroa, East Cape.
Location history for this earthquake. The automatic earthquake location system makes many locations for each quake. Not all quakes have a location history.