{"id":253364,"date":"2026-01-27T01:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/253364\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T01:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:44:08","slug":"magnitude-4-5-earthquake-shakes-lower-north-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/253364\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 4.5 earthquake shakes lower North Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4JU59CG_Screenshot_2026_01_27_135711_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"637\" alt=\"Magnitude 4.5, Tue Jan 27 2026 1:53 PM\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo:\n<\/p>\n<p>There has been a magnitude 4.5 earthquake which Geonet describes as light centred about 40 kilometres north-west of Levin.<\/p>\n<p>It says it was at a depth of 4.5 kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 5000 people have reported feeling it.<\/p>\n<p>People on social media have described the tremor as &#8220;jolty&#8221; and &#8220;rolling&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Others said it was a slight wobble.<\/p>\n<p>People have reported feeling the quake as far north as Taranaki and as far south as Blenheim.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: There has been a magnitude 4.5 earthquake which Geonet describes as light centred about 40 kilometres north-west&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253365,"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-253364","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\/253364","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=253364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}