{"id":500112,"date":"2026-06-28T21:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/500112\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T21:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T21:30:08","slug":"whanganui-at-centre-of-4-8-magnitude-quake-felt-by-thousands-late-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/500112\/","title":{"rendered":"Whanganui at centre of 4.8 magnitude quake felt by thousands late at night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">One person commenting on Geonet\u2019s Facebook page described it as \u201cpretty noisy, almost like a double shake with lots of leading noise and mild shaking then a momentous quiet then the main shaking kicked in\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Another person said they woke up to \u201ca big jolt and dishes rattling\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">A Whanganui resident said they thought it was going to \u201cpush their couch over\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Another poster described \u201chearing it but not really feeling it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThought it was a truck coming that didn\u2019t arrive. Rattled my door but just felt uneasy didn\u2019t feel any jolt or rumble.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">A person living in Taranaki said it rattled enough to dislodge a fixed item in their home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cKnocked a picture off my wall at my place in \u014cpunake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Geonet posted that the late-night shake affected those in the Whanganui Basin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">It described it as 70km west of Levin and felt across the lower North Island and top of the South Island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person commenting on Geonet\u2019s Facebook page described it as \u201cpretty noisy, almost like a double shake with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[117582,1975,3595,1550,793,2514,685,4507,2513,20699,111,43,139,2551,529,69,1118,8206,20705,2742,1883],"class_list":["post-500112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-117582","tag-at","tag-by","tag-centre","tag-felt","tag-island","tag-last","tag-late","tag-lower","tag-magnitude","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-night","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-quake","tag-struck","tag-thousands","tag-whanganui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500112","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=500112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}