{"id":266344,"date":"2026-02-04T00:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T00:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/266344\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T00:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T00:46:07","slug":"magnitude-4-4-moderate-earthquake-centred-at-seddon-shakes-central-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/266344\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 4.4 moderate earthquake centred at Seddon shakes central New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"

One person said they felt their home move during the early afternoon quake. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe house jolted once here on The Terrace,\u201d they said. <\/p>\n

Previous Seddon quakes <\/p>\n

Just last year, a strong 4.8 magnitude quake<\/a> shook 10km south of Seddon.<\/p>\n

The quake was labelled as \u201cstrong\u201d, and was 9km deep.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt felt quite wobbly, long and rolly,\u201d said one Wellingtonian about the March 2025 shake. <\/p>\n

On August 16, 2013, an 8km deep magnitude<\/a> 6.6 earthquake struck just offshore from Seddon.<\/p>\n

It caused significant damage to houses and infrastructure and sent Wellington workers running into the streets as the ground shook and buildings swayed. <\/p>\n

Another quake on July 21, 2013, which was 13km deep, magnitude 6.5 and centred in the Cook Strait, caused damage to several homes in Seddon and several buildings in the Wellington CBD, with glass from broken windows falling onto Lambton Quay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person said they felt their home move during the early afternoon quake. \u201cThe house jolted once here…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38116,1975,1853,151769,6752,2514,2513,20699,74766,117,111,43,139,529,69,8210,151770,71299,1240,80],"class_list":["post-266344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-38116","tag-at","tag-central","tag-centred","tag-earthquake","tag-island","tag-lower","tag-magnitude","tag-moderate","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-rattled","tag-seddon","tag-shakes","tag-south","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266344","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=266344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}