{"id":554200,"date":"2026-08-01T05:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/554200\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T05:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:20:09","slug":"light-5-2-magnitude-quake-recorded-near-te-anau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/554200\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Light’ 5.2 magnitude quake recorded near Te Anau"},"content":{"rendered":"

A light magnitude 5.2 earthquake has been reported by GeoNet this afternoon.<\/p>\n

The quake occurred 35km north-west of Te Anau, at a depth of 102km.<\/p>\n

It struck at 3:23pm, and more than 1400 people reported feeling it on GeoNet. <\/p>\n

Most people reported feeling “weak” or “light” shaking.<\/p>\n

“These deep earthquakes are typically widely felt,” GeoNet wrote on Facebook on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

It followed a magnitude 5.9 earthquake near Taumarunui last week<\/a> and a 5.9-magnitude quake that struck north of Te Anau<\/a> a week before.<\/p>\n

Residents in the lower North and upper South Islands were jolted by a light earthquake late last night<\/a> after a 4.6-magnitude quake struck at 11.09pm, 30 kilometres north-west of Porirua.<\/p>\n

The quake was reported by nearly 9000 people across Wellington, Manawat\u016b-Whanganui, Taranaki, and the upper South Island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A light magnitude 5.2 earthquake has been reported by GeoNet this afternoon. The quake occurred 35km north-west of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8215,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-554200","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\/554200","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=554200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}