GeoNet has issued a warning following a magnitude 5.5 quake this morning near Milford Sound. The moderate quake hit at 3.24am at a depth of 5km and 40km north-east of Milford Sound. The quake was part of a swarm of tremors around Milford Sound. The seismologist on duty at Geonet said the quake appeared to have occurred on the Alpine Fault. The Alpine Fault runs hundreds of kilometres up the spine of the South Island, from Fiordland along the western edge of the Southern Alps.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 08, 2019 20:56 UTC