South Island shaken by quakes
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Southland was shaken by a magnitude 4.0 earthquake this afternoon.
GNS Science said the quake which struck at 3.14pm was centred 60km west of Te Anau, 125km southwest of Milford, at a depth of 60km.
Nine minutes earlier a 4.6 magnitude quake struck Canterbury.
The quake was located 30km northeast of Kaikoura at a depth of 15km and would have been felt in Blenheim and Wellington.
- NZPA
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