{"id":556058,"date":"2026-08-02T11:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T11:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/556058\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T11:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T11:30:12","slug":"te-araroa-shaken-by-strong-magnitude-5-7-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/556058\/","title":{"rendered":"Te Araroa shaken by strong magnitude 5.7 earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"

A strong magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck near Te Araroa on the East Coast on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

The quake comes just a day after a magnitude 5.2 earthquake<\/a> struck near Te Anau in the South Island, and follows several weeks of heightened seismic activity across the country.<\/p>\n

GeoNet said the quake hit at 8.35pm, centred 10km south-west of Te Araroa at a depth of 39km.<\/p>\n

The shaking was classified as “strong”.<\/p>\n

Felt reports showed more than 5240 felt the shaking by 9pm.<\/p>\n

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

Some social media users said it was a sharp jolt or rumble that had shaken them and the furniture in their houses.<\/p>\n

One Gisborne local emailed RNZ, writing that the quake “rattled the house with a strong shudder”.<\/p>\n

Two weaker magnitude 3 shakes were recorded at 8.40pm and 9.07pm, near the same location.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, a Te Anau quake struck 35km north-west of the town at a depth of 102km.<\/p>\n

That followed a magnitude 5.9 earthquake<\/a> north of Te Anau on 25 July, which prompted a brief tsunami warning and evacuation notice for parts of the West Coast before it was cancelled.<\/p>\n

On Friday night, a magnitude 4.6 earthquake also shook the lower North Island and upper South Island after striking offshore north-west of Porirua.<\/p>\n

Following Saturday’s Te Anau quake, GeoNet scientist Jonathan Hanson said New Zealand had been living up to its “Shaky Isles” reputation.<\/p>\n

While it had been a busy few weeks for earthquakes, Hanson said the recent activity was not unusual overall, with New Zealand typically recording between 15 and 20 magnitude 5 earthquakes each year.<\/p>\n

GeoNet reminds people to “Drop, Cover, Hold” if they feel shaking, and to know their tsunami evacuation route if they are near the coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A strong magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck near Te Araroa on the East Coast on Sunday evening. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-556058","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\/556058","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=556058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}