July 16 (Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 hit South Island, New Zealand on Thursday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences said.
The quake was at a depth of 53 km (32.93 miles), GFZ said.
The agency earlier pegged the quake at 5.6, with a depth of 10 km.
(Reporting by Sumedha Mukherjee and Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru; editing by Philippa Fletcher)
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