6.3 on the Richter Scale rattles New Zealand

Timeball Station transmitter , suffered damage after a 6.3 -magnitude earthquake rocked the city in Lyttelton near Christchurch , New Zealand

Wellington , An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale that shook New Zealand , Monday, January 20, 2014 , shaking buildings and causing a number of termination of rail service . But there has been no major reports of damage or injuries from the quake .

According to the U.S. Geological Survey , the earthquake occurred at 02:52 GMT , centered on the North Island , about 115 kilometers northeast of Wellington . Vibration touching depth of 27 kilometers and was widely felt throughout the North Island and South Island . This earthquake was followed by a series of smaller aftershocks .

" I saw the neighbors and their little shaken . , But other than that no damage , " said Brian Smith of Eketahuna , which was near the epicenter , told Radio New Zealand. He described the quake as a sharp jolt like . " My wife was outside , in the garden , and he said he could not stand and had to sit down . "

GeoNet New Zealand call this earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale , with a depth of 10 kilometers . Some glass windows of the house in the small town of Eketahuna broken and damaged construction . But police said there were no reports of injuries as a result of this earthquake .

In Eketahuna , Tanmay Patel local supermarket manager says , this earthquake made a number of goods on the shelves thrown . " The roof seemed to be falling , " he told the media the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ( ABC ) .

Pam Lochore , wife of former rugby famous player Brian Lochare , said the pictures fell off the shelf and " rugby ball flying across the room " at his home in Masterton in the southern North Island .

One of the victims of the earthquake is a model of a giant eagle who fell to the ground from the roof of Wellington Airport . Eagle was used to promote the Hobbit movie trilogy . All train services in the Wellington region was stopped because of this earthquake .

New Zealand is in the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates that are part of the so-called Ring of Fire and experiencing up to 15,000 tremors a year .

6.3 magnitude earthquake in the city of Christchurch in the South Island in 2011 killed 185 people and became one of the deadliest disasters in modern times .

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