An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at 0310 GMT on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 91.3 km, was initially determined to be at 30.92 degrees south latitude and 178.46 degrees west longitude.
Radio NZ report: Sir John Key's dream of a vast ocean sanctuary around the Kermadec Islands has finally died, with work on legislation scrapped by the coalition government. The proposal was announced in 2015 by the then-prime minister to great international fanfare but quickly ran into opposition. A backlash from fishing companies and iwi bodies saw it put on ice
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New Zealand once led the world in marine protection. Now it looks like we will fail to meet our international promise to protect 30 percent of our ocean estate by 2030. Why is stopping fishing so politically fraught? How might our ideas about marine protection need to change? And why, when our seas are in need, is it taking us so long to learn to talk to each other?