{"id":409155,"date":"2026-05-03T01:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T01:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/409155\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T01:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T01:18:11","slug":"small-quake-wakes-wellington-followed-by-jolt-in-east-cape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/409155\/","title":{"rendered":"Small quake wakes Wellington, followed by jolt in East Cape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4JP7MS5_GeoNet_png.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"602\" alt=\"Magnitude 5.2, Sun May 3 2026 9:19 AM\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nMagnitude 5.2 earthquake off the East Cape on Sunday 3 May 2026.<br \/>\nPhoto: GeoNet\n<\/p>\n<p>A second noticeable quake has struck the North Island, this one on the East Cape, following an earlier tremor in Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>The Wellington region had an early morning jolt from a magnitude 4 earthquake on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The quake struck 10 kilometres northwest of Porirua at 3.15am, and registered at a depth of 22 kilometres. Its epicentre was in the sea, near Mana Island.<\/p>\n<p>The tremor attracted more than 2000 &#8216;felt it&#8217; reports on the government seismology website GeoNet.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all of them came from the Wellington region, but some people felt the quake at the top of the South Island.<\/p>\n<p>The second measured 5.2 and hit at 9.19am 25km west of Te Araroa, East Cape, at a depth of 32km. Nearly 800 reported feeling it to the Geonet website.<\/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 daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Magnitude 5.2 earthquake off the East Cape on Sunday 3 May 2026. Photo: GeoNet A second noticeable quake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-409155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409155","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=409155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}