{"id":554317,"date":"2026-08-01T07:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/554317\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T07:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:10:13","slug":"5-2-magnitude-quake-strikes-near-te-anau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/554317\/","title":{"rendered":"5.2 magnitude quake strikes near Te Anau"},"content":{"rendered":"

Te Anau has been hit by a magnitude 5.2 earthquake, just a week after being jolted by a 5.9.<\/p>\n

The latest quake, at 3:23pm on Saturday, was centred 35 kilometres north-west of the town at a depth of 102 kilometres, GeoNet said.<\/p>\n

Felt reports showed more than 1400 people felt the shaking, mostly in the lower South Island.<\/p>\n

There were no immediate reports of damage.<\/p>\n

On 25 July<\/a> a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck 40 kilometres north of Te Anau, sparking a brief tsunami warning and an evacuation notice for some areas of the West Coast, which was later cancelled.<\/p>\n

On Friday night, a magnitude 4.6 quake jolted the lower North Island and upper South at 11:09pm. It was centred 30 kilometres offshore, north-west of Porirua at a depth of 38 kilometres, and more than 8900 people logged Felt Reports.<\/p>\n

GeoNet scientist Jonathan Hanson said New Zealand has been living up to its Shaky Isles reputation. While it had been a busy few weeks in terms of earthquakes, overall it was not unusual.<\/p>\n

There are typically 15 to 20 magnitude five events in the country every year, but having a couple approaching magnitude six in a month is less common.<\/p>\n

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

“Remember to Drop, Cover and Hold if you feel shaking, and know your tsunami evacuation route if you live near the coast.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Te Anau has been hit by a magnitude 5.2 earthquake, just a week after being jolted by a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-554317","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\/554317","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=554317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}