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The lower South Island once again felt the tremors from a large earthquake off the coast of Fiordland in the vicinity of George Sound. The magnitude 6.7 quake struck at 1:29 am on Tuesday 16 October.
Location history for this earthquake. The automatic earthquake location system makes many locations for each quake. Not all quakes have a location history.