5.7 magnitude earthquake hits New Zealand's Wellington city

New Zealand's capital city Wellington was rocked by 5.7-magnitude earthquake on Tuesday.

According to the country's earthquake monitoring service, the quake's epicentre was 35km southeast of St Arnaud, a small town in the north of the country's South Island, at a depth of



62km.

Witnesses felt shaking in Wellington, which has a population of around 450,000. There were no initial reports of damage or injury.

Earthquakes are common in New Zealand, whose two islands lie along the Australia-Pacific tectonic plate boundary.