{"id":423737,"date":"2026-05-12T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/423737\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:30:08","slug":"wellington-earthquake-magnitude-4-2-quake-shakes-lower-north-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/423737\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington earthquake: Magnitude 4.2 quake shakes lower North Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">GeoNet said the details were preliminary and could be subject to revision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">Residents around the capital took to Facebook to share their experiences, with multiple users saying they heard the quake before they felt it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">One Karori local said the tremor felt like a \u201cjolt and a pop\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">Another said it felt like a \u201cthud\u201d, adding it \u201cfelt like only half the lounge shook\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">One user said the quake felt more \u201csudden and sharp\u201d in southern Wellington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">Residents in Lower Hutt, Te Aro, Lyall Bay, Paraparaumu, and Thorndon said they felt the tremor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GeoNet said the details were preliminary and could be subject to revision. Residents around the capital took to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54328,6752,19555,2514,2845,2513,20699,111,43,139,529,69,17711,8206,8210,72212,71299,1961,2742,52],"class_list":["post-423737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-54328","tag-earthquake","tag-evening","tag-island","tag-leaving","tag-lower","tag-magnitude","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-parts","tag-quake","tag-rattled","tag-shaken","tag-shakes","tag-this","tag-thousands","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423737","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=423737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}