Kyle Sooley-Brookings

May 8, 20211 min

Two large earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean

There were two large earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean on Saturday.

The first was a 6.0 magnitude that was centred 1262.7 km south of Geeveston, Australia and was at a depth of 10 kilometres.

It occurred at 1:21 am local time.

At 11:35 am local time there was a 6.0 magnitude earthquake 340.5 km west-northwest of Pangai, Tonga.

That earthquake was at a depth of 378 kilometres.