Earthquake with 6.7 magnitude detected off coast of New Zealand

An earthquake has been detected in the Pacific Ocean, about 600 miles off the coast of New Zealand.

The 6.7 struck quake happened in the Macquarie Island region, a remote area to the south of Australia.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said it happened more than miles below ground and revised the initial magnitude down from 7.3.

No immediate tsunami warning has been put in place following the quake.

It happened close to to an island designated a Unesco world heritage site in 1997.

Officially part of Tasmania, Macquarie Island is home to a few dozen researchers and hundreds of thousands of royal penguins.

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