An island near Australia was hit with a 6.9 magnitude earthquake on Thursday, a quake smaller than the 7.3 magnitude initially reported.
The earthquake took place in the Macquarie Island region in the southern Pacific Ocean at 10:13 p.m. local time and was at a depth of 10 kilometers, according to the United States Geological Survey.
There is no warning, advisory, watch, or threat of a tsunami from the U.S. Tsunami Warning System following the earthquake.
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Macquarie Island only has a population of 14-40 people, all of whom live on the Australian Antarctic Division’s research station on the island. The division serves as part of Australia’s Department of Agriculture, Water, and the Environment and studies Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.
The island has a history of seismic activity due to sitting on the boundary between the Australian plate and the Pacific plate. The island had an 8.2 magnitude earthquake in 1989, the largest intraoceanic earthquake of the 20th century, an 8.1 magnitude earthquake in 2004, and a 6.6 magnitude earthquake in December 2021, according to the Daily Mail.
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A 7.3 magnitude earthquake was recorded in the northern regions of Japan in March and lasted for 2 minutes. Power outages were reported in more than 2 million homes in the Kanto region following the earthquake.
