2021 Kermadec Islands earthquakes is located in Oceania
The 2021 Kermadec Islands earthquakes were a series of earthquakes with magnitudes of 8.1 and 7.4 that occurred at 19:28:31 UTC on 4 March 2021. The epicentres were located southeast of Raoul Island in the Kermadec Islands, part of the New Zealand outlying islands.[5] The main magnitude 8.1 earthquake was preceded by a magnitude 7.4 foreshock[6] and followed by a magnitude 6.1 aftershock.[7] A separate, unrelated magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurred off the coast of the North Island of New Zealand, approximately 900 km to the south, several hours before the main quakes.[8] As of October 20 2021, there have been thousands of aftershocks, with more than a dozen of them exceeding magnitude 6.[9]