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At 8:28 a.m., on Friday 5 March 2021 NZDT, a magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck the Kermadec Islands, 1025 km north-east of Whangarei.
Location history for this earthquake. The automatic earthquake location system makes many locations for each quake. Not all quakes have a location history.