Powerful Earthquake hits New Zealand islands

[Pastor Dale Morgan]

*Great Earthquakes In Diverse Places

Powerful Earthquake hits New Zealand islands*

From correspondents in Auckland, New Zealand

AAP

August 19, 2009 08:41am

A POWERFUL 6.0-magnitude earthquake has struck off the remote Kermadec
islands north of New Zealand, the US Geological Survey said.

The quake struck at 9.20am local time (0720 AEST), 370km north of Raoul
Island in the Kermadec islands at a depth of 280km.

No tsunami warning was immediately issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning
Centre.

The Kermadec islands, 1000km north of New Zealand, are uninhabited apart
from Raoul, where New Zealand's Department of Conservation maintains a
field station.