{"id":225253,"date":"2026-01-09T16:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/225253\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T16:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:29:18","slug":"deep-5-4-earthquake-in-taranaki-jolts-lower-north-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/225253\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep 5.4 earthquake in Taranaki jolts lower North Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4JV2ZX0_QUAKE_png.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"586\" alt=\"The official Geonet map showing reports of the quake on Friday.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThe official Geonet map showing reports of the quake on Friday.<br \/>\nPhoto:\n<\/p>\n<p>A deep 5.4 earthquake has rattled the lower North Island.<\/p>\n<p>The tremor, that struck about 8.30am on Friday, was centred 10km south-west of Waverley in Taranaki.<\/p>\n<p>Geonet said it struck at a depth of 107km.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">M5.0 quake causing light shaking near Waverley <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EDTDyVlUPM\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/EDTDyVlUPM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GeoNet (@geonet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/geonet\/status\/2009347047049318912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Within a few minutes, more than 14,000 people registered as feeling the shake.<\/p>\n<p>Most described is as being weak, light or moderate.<\/p>\n<p>One person reported their house shook in Tadmor Valley in the Tasman region while people in Inglewood and the Marlborough Sounds reported it shaking their beds.<\/p>\n<p>The felt reports on the Geonet website range from around Taranaki through to Nelson and Blenheim at the top of the South Island, with a number of people also reporting feeling the quake in Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The official Geonet map showing reports of the quake on Friday. Photo: A deep 5.4 earthquake has rattled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-225253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225253","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=225253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}