The January 20, 2014 M 6.2 earthquake was in northeastern Wellington, about 115 kilometers northeast of Masterton, north of the island of New Zealand. The earthquake resulted from northeast-southwest oriented normal faulting 175 km to the west of the Hikurangi Trench, where the Pacific plate subducts westward beneath the North Island.
At the latitude of this event, the Pacific plate moves towards the west-southwest with respect to the Australia plate at the rate of approximately 42 mm/yr.
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