The 2007 Gisborne earthquake was an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 on the Richter scale which struck in the Pacific Ocean, 50 km off the eastern coast of New Zealand's North Island at 8.55 pm NZDT on 20 December 2007. The tremor mostly affected the town of Gisborne, but was felt widely across the country from Auckland in the north to Dunedin in the south.
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