\u201cDecent little shake,\u201d wrote one person on social media platform, X. <\/p>\n
\u201cNice sharp shake,\u201d wrote another.<\/p>\n
In Wellington, the earthquake began as a low, subtle shake that grew in strength, lasting roughly 20 seconds.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile Facebook users described it as a \u201chuge wobble in New Plymouth\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI heard it coming! Hate them!\u201d said a Levin resident.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly just at my house in bulls, felt like a big truck going past,\u201d said another. <\/p>\n
A Waitarere resident said there was \u201clots of noise for a while then a big wobble\u201d.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile a Wellingtonian said it was \u201cso small I thought it was vertigo\u201d. They weren\u2019t even sure an earthquake had happened until they checked online, they said.<\/p>\n
One woman in the Horowhenua region said her china cabinet and pictures began rattling first.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly then the wave came, and ended with a big jolt,\u201d she wrote, saying it got her heart going as she enjoyed a \u201cmorning cuppa\u201d.<\/p>\n
Another person in Patea, near the epicentre, said the house \u201cjumped\u201d.<\/p>\n
One woman in Inglewood said the quake \u201cwriggled along the hallway like a wet dog\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhole house groaned. Woke the cat. I\u2019m pleased I was sitting down,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The shake comes two weeks after another tremor that rumbled the lower North Island.<\/p>\n
The strong 4.7 magnitude earthquake hit on Boxing Day near Pongaroa.<\/p>\n
It was measured at 17km deep, with the shaking initially described as moderate. It was revised an hour later to strong.<\/p>\n
The quake was widely felt from Wellington to Whanganui.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlright, which one of you rolled out of bed after eating three different Christmas meals yesterday?\u201d Civil Defence Manawat\u016b Whanganui jokingly posted at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cQuakes like this one are always a good reminder to Drop, Cover and Hold when the ground starts shaking.\u201d<\/p>\n
What to do if you\u2019re woken up by a quake<\/p>\n
Hawke\u2019s Bay Emergency Management director Shane Briggs said staying in bed during a quake that wakes you had been official advice for some time.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople are far more likely to be injured if they get up and move around during an earthquake. Research using ACC injury data from the 2016 Kaik\u014dura\u2013Hurunui earthquake supports this.<\/p>\n
\u201cResearch consistently shows that \u2018drop, cover, and hold\u2019 is the best way to stay safe in earthquakes in New Zealand \u2013 and if you\u2019re in bed, that becomes \u2018stay, cover, and hold\u2019.”<\/p>\n
Briggs said the advice was the same regardless of building type, and moving towards a doorway was no longer recommended.<\/p>\n
\u201cDoors can swing violently, striking people or trapping fingers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis older advice came from a time when buildings were constructed differently, and door frames were often the strongest part of a structure.<\/p>\n
\u201cModern buildings are designed differently, and that\u2019s no longer the case.\u201d<\/p>\n
Once the shaking stops, people should get up if it was long and strong and they were in the blue tsunami evacuation zone, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDecent little shake,\u201d wrote one person on social media platform, X. \u201cNice sharp shake,\u201d wrote another. In Wellington,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17236,1853,2841,6752,15313,2514,20699,10110,1304,111,43,139,529,69,384,8206,72212,71299,1961,2742,111249,102],"class_list":["post-223812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-17236","tag-central","tag-country","tag-earthquake","tag-feeling","tag-island","tag-magnitude","tag-middle","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-quake","tag-shaken","tag-shakes","tag-this","tag-thousands","tag-tremor","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223812","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=223812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}