A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck near Te Araroa on the East Coast of the North Island this evening. <\/p>\n
GeoNet said the quake struck 10km south-west of Te Araroa at around 8.35pm at a depth of about 39km.<\/p>\n
It described the shaking as “strong” and received over 5000 reports.<\/p>\n
New Zealand Civil Defence said online it had been “a shaky few days across the motu with another earthquake near Te Araroa tonight”.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s a reminder that our beautiful landscapes were formed by massive forces at work below the surface, and living alongside them means staying prepared.<\/p>\n
“Remember, DROP, COVER and HOLD is the right action to take during an earthquake. If you\u2019re near the coast and the shaking is LONG or STRONG, then GET GONE,” it said. <\/p>\n
“Emergencies can happen anytime, anywhere.”<\/p>\n
Some social media user reporting feeling the quake, with one describing it as a “nice wobble in Wellington”. <\/p>\n
Another said: “Long and strong In Waihi beach.” <\/p>\n
It followed other decent jolts over the weekend, including a 4.6-magnitude quake<\/a> 30 kilometres north-west of Porirua and on Saturday afternoon, a 5.2 quake<\/a> near Te Anau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck near Te Araroa on the East Coast of the North Island this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8215,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-556577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-earthquakes","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556577","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=556577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}