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Residential and commercial buildings standing on the city skyline are seen from Mount Victoria Lookout at dawn in Wellington, New Zealand, on Saturday, June 22, 2019. Image: Birgit Krippner/Bloomberg

Magnitude 5.8 earthquake rattles central New Zealand

No immediate reports of damage.

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An earthquake rattled central New Zealand on Monday morning and was widely felt in capital city Wellington.
The 5.8 magnitude quake struck at 7:53 a.m. and was centred near Levin, a town about 100 kilometres (65 miles) north of Wellington, seismic monitoring agency GeoNet said. There were no immediate reports of damage.

New Zealand sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire, a belt of volcanic and seismic activity that rings the Pacific Ocean. A magnitude 7.8 quake in November 2016 killed two people and caused extensive damage. The South Island city of Christchurch is still recovering from a 2011 quake that killed 185 people and destroyed the central business district.

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