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<\/p>\nResidents in the lower North and upper South Islands were jolted by a light earthquake late last night. <\/p>\n
According to GeoNet, the 4.6-magnitude quake struck at 11.09pm, 30 kilometres north-west of Porirua, at a depth of 38km. <\/p>\n
The quake was reported by nearly 9000 people across Wellington, Manawat\u016b-Whanganui, Taranaki, and the upper South Island. <\/p>\n
On X, one person described the jolt as “shaky”, while another said: “Wobble wobble.”<\/p>\n
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A map showing where last night’s earthquake was felt. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n
“Nice decent shake here in Wellington,” another said. <\/p>\n
One person wrote: “F***ing hell, that one went boom!”<\/p>\n
An hour later, at 12.13am, another “weak” 2.7-magnitude quake struck 10 km south-east of Collingwood at a depth of 8km. <\/p>\n
It comes after a magnitude 5.9 earthquake near Taumarunui<\/a> last week and a 5.9-magnitude quake that struck north of Te Anau a week before<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents in the lower North and upper South Islands were jolted by a light earthquake late last night.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8215,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-553637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-earthquakes","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553637","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=553637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}