{"id":542430,"date":"2026-07-24T19:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/542430\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T19:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:26:09","slug":"severe-magnitude-5-9-quake-hits-north-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/542430\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Severe’ magnitude 5.9 quake hits North Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

A strong earthquake jolted the central North Island early on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Geonet said the ‘severe’ magnitude 5.9 quake happened around five kilometres southwest of Taumarunui at 4.51am.<\/p>\n

The earthquake was nine kilometres deep and the intensity was severe.<\/p>\n

The quake was reportedly felt across much of the North Island, including Auckland, and as far as the top of the South.<\/p>\n

By 6am, nearly 23,000 ‘felt reports’ had been filed to Geonet.<\/p>\n

At least seven aftershocks, ranging between magnitude 2.7 and 3.7, followed.<\/p>\n

Fire and Emergency said far it had recieved only a sprinkler-related callout stemming from the big quake.<\/p>\n

Minor slips have been reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A strong earthquake jolted the central North Island early on Saturday. Geonet said the ‘severe’ magnitude 5.9 quake…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-542430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542430","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=542430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}