Strong aftershocks shook the North Island of New Zealand this Saturday, March 6, with an earthquake of magnitude 6.4, according to the American Institute of Geophysics (USGS).
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No casualties and no damage were reported as a result of these tremors located off the town of Gisborne, in the eastern Oceanian archipelago.
On Friday March 5, a series of earthquakes, one of which reached magnitude 8.1 near the remote islands of Kermadec, 1,000 kilometers northeast of New Zealand, had triggered tsunami warnings in several islands in the South Pacific. The warnings were however quickly lifted, the waves not having had the feared magnitude.
