{"id":590333,"date":"2026-09-04T21:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T21:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/590333\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T21:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T21:00:11","slug":"lower-north-island-earthquake-magnitude-4-9-quake-strikes-northwest-of-paraparaumu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/590333\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower North Island earthquake: Magnitude 4.9 quake strikes northwest of Paraparaumu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">The earthquake comes after a series of sizeable quakes around the country this week, including two moderate earthquakes near Milford Sound on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">The first, a magnitude 5.5, struck about 40km northeast of Milford Sound at 6.13pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">It was followed less than an hour later by a magnitude 5.6 quake about 35km northeast of Milford Sound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Several smaller earthquakes were recorded in the same area afterwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The earthquake comes after a series of sizeable quakes around the country this week, including two moderate earthquakes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85040,6752,2514,2513,20699,74766,1304,111,43,139,529,44182,69,1118,290712,8206,8210,19063,1961],"class_list":["post-590333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-85040","tag-earthquake","tag-island","tag-lower","tag-magnitude","tag-moderate","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-northwest","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-paraparaumu","tag-quake","tag-rattled","tag-strikes","tag-this"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590333","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=590333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}