{"id":120786,"date":"2025-11-06T08:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T08:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/120786\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T08:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T08:53:11","slug":"wellington-rattled-by-magnitude-4-9-earthquake-felt-by-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/120786\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington rattled by magnitude 4.9 earthquake felt by thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe quake seemed to last a decent amount of time and seemed noisy compared to others,\u201d one person said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cYou could hear the noise before the shaking became noticeable. It was one of those ones where you feared the epicentre could be somewhere else as it lasted quite some time &#8211; at least 30 seconds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A M4.9 earthquake with moderate shaking has occurred in the Cook Strait at 9:09 pm tonight. It was 22 km deep and widely felt through central New Zealand and we have received over 30,000 felt reports.<br \/>Another reminder that earthquakes can occur anywhere in New Zealand at any time <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xtKzAlUkoN\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/xtKzAlUkoN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GeoNet (@geonet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/geonet\/status\/1986350445884027362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">Another person said the shaking began quickly and made a \u201cbig noisy bang\u201d as it shook their house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMade the cat nervous, but was over before you could really think about doing anything,\u201d they said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cLeft a couple of ornaments swaying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\"> One person said the shaking went on for some time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">\u201c[It] started smaller then grew, rolling shake. Windows and glassware rattling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe quake seemed to last a decent amount of time and seemed noisy compared to others,\u201d one person&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85040,1558,3595,6752,19555,793,20699,36661,111,43,139,69,8210,1961,2742,52],"class_list":["post-120786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-85040","tag-been","tag-by","tag-earthquake","tag-evening","tag-felt","tag-magnitude","tag-nearby","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rattled","tag-this","tag-thousands","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}