{"id":430867,"date":"2026-05-16T17:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/430867\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T17:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:31:12","slug":"quakes-shake-top-of-south-island-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/430867\/","title":{"rendered":"Quakes shake top of South Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4JOIW2Y_Earthquake16May26_png.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"627\" alt=\"The GeoNet 'Felt Report' earthquake map, after the quake that was centred near Seddon, on 16 May 2026.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThe GeoNet &#8216;Felt Report&#8217; earthquake map, after the quake that was centred near Seddon, just after 6:30pm on Saturday.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied\/ GeoNet\n<\/p>\n<p>The top of the South Island has been shaken by a handful of small earthquakes.<\/p>\n<p>GeoNet recorded the first quake just after 6:30pm Saturday, south east of Seddon, at magnitude 4.4 and about 10 kilometres deep.<\/p>\n<p>The agency then recorded another, about 15 minutes later, measuring magnitude 3.6, north of Seddon. However this event was later noted as &#8220;deleted&#8221;, and another four following quakes marked as &#8216;unnoticeable&#8217; or &#8216;weak&#8217; were recorded in the Seddon area, until just before 8pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1200 people reported feeling the first quake &#8211; described as moderate shaking on GeoNet.<\/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":"The GeoNet &#8216;Felt Report&#8217; earthquake map, after the quake that was centred near Seddon, just after 6:30pm on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430336,"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-430867","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\/430867","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=430867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}