25km west of Te Araroa in the Gisborne District on Monday<\/a> was not as widely felt, \u201cso it may have had energy that was more directional and went away from population centres\u201d, said Jacobs. <\/p>\nShe said the dozens of small aftershocks recorded since yesterday\u2019s earthquakes had followed typical patterns seen in the region in the past.<\/p>\n
A 5.3 magnitude earthquake occurred in a similar area, 115km north-east of Whangamat\u0101, in August 2020. <\/p>\n
Although more tremors are possible, Jacobs said nothing particular about yesterday\u2019s trio suggested \u201cmore shaking or larger shaking is on the way\u201d.<\/p>\n
The shocks were not caused by anything unusual, but rather by the \u201cregular tectonic processes in New Zealand\u201d. <\/p>\n
Where the shocks were felt <\/p>\n
Thousands of people reported feeling yesterday\u2019s earthquakes along the east coast of the North Island. <\/p>\n
The first shake was felt by about 2000 people across the northeast coast of the North Island, including residents in Matua, Aongatete, Te Puna, \u014ct\u016bmoetai and Whitianga, according to GeoNet.<\/p>\n
It was followed by a magnitude 4.2 tremor about five minutes later, this time 110km northwest of Te Kaha at a depth of 33km. The second quake was felt by about 1000 people. <\/p>\n
A third 2.7 quake struck 5km south of Te Araroa, at 8.43pm.<\/p>\n
Far away from the largest earthquake\u2019s centre, Chrissie Anderson in Leigh, north of Auckland, said she and her neighbour both felt it. <\/p>\n
Shelly Leversedge was sitting on her La-Z-Boy in Whangamat\u0101 when she started shaking. <\/p>\n
\u201cI said to my husband, \u2018I\u2019m shaking, I think it\u2019s an earthquake\u2019, he looked up from his book and saw that the pot plant on the coffee table was shaking. It lasted a good half minute.\u201d <\/p>\n
Michelle Grigg in Pak\u016branga, Auckland, said it felt like a \u201chuge truck rumbling by\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis one [5.7] obviously spread out very evenly, so most people along the Bay of Plenty coast, from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17517,11586,8215,3806,793,3096,685,130,111,43,139,11550,529,69,52295,312,212981,71299,20705,1361,8229,1529,3608,4276,100545],"class_list":["post-414223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-because","tag-coast","tag-earthquakes","tag-east","tag-felt","tag-islands","tag-last","tag-more","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nights","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-ruptured","tag-says","tag-seismologist","tag-shakes","tag-struck","tag-that","tag-they","tag-three","tag-were","tag-why","tag-widely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414223","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=414223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}