New Zealand earthquake disrupts rail services for travelers

In New Zealand travelers and tourists found Rail services have been suspended in Wellington and the lower North Island while tracks are checked, but flights are as normal.
No reports death or series injuries are known.

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has rattled the lower North Island of New Zealand, cutting power and reportedly causing rockfalls and building damage.

The quake struck 15 kilometres east of the small town of Ekatahuna, about 120 kilometres north-east of Wellington.

No injuries have been reported from the earthquake, which struck at a depth of 33 kilometres and was felt hundreds of kilometres away.

There are reports of rockfalls, landslides and building damage in the region, and power has been cut to thousands of customers.

New Zealand is on the boundary of the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates, forming part of the so-called Ring of Fire, and experiences up to 15,000 tremors a year.

A devastating magnitude 6.3 tremor in the South Island city of Christchurch in 2011 killed 185 people – one of the nation’s deadliest disasters of the modern era.

Wellington was the scene of the country’s most powerful earthquake in 1855.