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M5.6 Earthquake near Hicks Bay New Zealand

ActiveModerate severityHicks Bay, New Zealand
Reported
2026-08-02 08:35 UTC(1 day ago)
Last update
2026-08-02 12:56 UTC(23 hours ago)
Nearby cameras
0
Data sources
USGS, GDACS

What’s happening

This page tracks a earthquake record for 14 km S of Hicks Bay, New Zealand, alongside nearby public live cameras. No public live camera in the TubeTraveler directory currently falls inside the search radius for this event type.

Seismic monitoring recorded a magnitude 5.6 earthquake near 14 km S of Hicks Bay, New Zealand on 2026-08-02 at 08:35 UTC. The hypocentre was reported at a depth of about 53 km. 24 felt reports had been submitted to the reporting agency at the time of the last data update. Every figure on this page is taken from the official sources credited below and may be revised as those agencies issue updates.

Magnitude
M5.6
Depth
53 km
Alert level
Green
Felt reports
24

Where it is

Source data places this event at 14 km S of Hicks Bay, New Zealand. Coordinates are -37.730, 178.329 — the single point agencies use to summarise the event, not the boundary of the area involved. Administratively this falls in New Zealand.

No nearby live camera

No public live camera in the TubeTraveler directory currently falls inside the 150 km search radius used for this event type, so nothing has been attached here. Browse the full camera map instead.

Why these cameras were matched

No public live camera in the TubeTraveler directory currently falls inside the 150 km search radius used for this event type, so no camera has been attached to this page.

What the cameras cannot confirm

These streams cannot be used to establish the scale of any damage, injuries, casualties or the condition of anyone involved, whether an official evacuation or alert is in force, anything happening outside the camera’s field of view, and the intensity of shaking at any particular address. There is also no guarantee that the event itself is visible from any of these cameras — a stream may be pointing elsewhere, be delayed, or be showing an ordinary day in a place that is otherwise affected.

Event location and nearby cameras

The circle marks the location reported by the source agency; squares mark public live cameras.

How this record was built

This record combines data from GDACS — Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System and USGS Earthquake Hazards Program; where their figures differ, both are linked below rather than averaged into one number. Last data update: 2026-08-02 at 12:56 UTC.

Information on this page can change as agencies publish updates. Read the methodology · Report an error on this page

Official sources