{"id":587719,"date":"2026-09-02T07:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/587719\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T07:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:40:09","slug":"milford-sound-earthquake-multiple-quakes-rattle-lower-south-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/587719\/","title":{"rendered":"Milford Sound earthquake: Multiple quakes rattle lower South Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">The quake was felt as far afield as Invercargill, Gore, Dunedin and Tekapo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">A second, stronger magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck about about 35km northeast of Milford Sound at 6.57pm,<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Residents reported the second shake \u201cfelt stronger\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">A third earthquake, measuring magnitude 4.6, struck 35km northeast of Milford Sound at a depth of 5km at 7.12pm, according to preliminary GeoNet data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Queenstown Lakes District Council said Edith Cavell Bridge will be closed overnight after the earthquakes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAs this bridge is a historical asset with heritage status, an inspection is required following earthquakes like the one we just experienced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cTraffic from Arthurs Point will need to detour via Malaghans Rd, Dalefield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cEngineers will inspect the bridge at first light tomorrow morning and we\u2019ll provide a further update when we know more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Motorists have been urged to take care around alpine passes such as Crown Range Rd because there may be debris from the recent earthquakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The quake was felt as far afield as Invercargill, Gore, Dunedin and Tekapo. A second, stronger magnitude 5.7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6752,8215,19555,305,2514,2513,92898,51720,2510,111,43,139,69,71769,289245,8210,26660,1240,45608,1961,1455],"class_list":["post-587719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-earthquake","tag-earthquakes","tag-evening","tag-have","tag-island","tag-lower","tag-milford","tag-motorists","tag-multiple","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-quakes","tag-rattle","tag-rattled","tag-sound","tag-south","tag-sparking","tag-this","tag-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587719","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=587719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}