Earthquake of magnitude 7.2 jolts New Zealand

The incidence of earthquakes is increasing all over the world. Meanwhile, tremors of a very strong earthquake were felt in New Zealand on Monday morning. According to information given by the National Center for Seismology (NCS), the magnitude of the earthquake was recorded at 7.2 on the Richter scale. However, there has been no news of any kind of damage.

New challenges are increasing day by day on the earth due to deteriorating ecosystem and human induced climate imbalance. These are examples of changes such as increase in temperature, melting and breaking of glaciers, decrease in monsoon rain and snowfall, increase in devastating floods and earthquakes.

tremors felt in the morning

According to the NCS, the tremors were felt at 6.11 am on Karmadek Island, located in the north-east of New Zealand. However, there has been no news of any loss of life or property so far. At the same time, the United States Geological Survey ie USGS told that this earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers below the ground.

There was an earthquake last month too

Let me tell you, last month also dangerous earthquake tremors were felt in New Zealand. Even then the earth was trembling near Karmadec Island. Then the intensity of the earthquake was estimated at 7.1 on the Richter scale.