{"id":591311,"date":"2026-09-05T20:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T20:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/591311\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T20:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T20:58:09","slug":"decent-shake-magnitude-4-2-earthquake-jolts-taranaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/591311\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Decent shake&#8217;: Magnitude 4.2 earthquake jolts Taranaki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has rattled Taranaki this morning, with around 2000 people reporting feeling the shaking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The tremor struck about 15km north of \u014cpunake at 6.46am on Sunday, according to GeoNet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">It was recorded at a depth of 8km, with GeoNet describing the shaking as &#8220;light&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Around 2000 people had reported feeling the quake on GeoNet shortly after it struck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">In Westown, New Plymouth, one Facebook user described the quake as &#8220;quite a good belt&#8221;, while another reported a &#8220;decent shake&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Further north in Waitara, a resident described it as &#8220;short and sharp&#8221;, while in Eltham, another said they felt a &#8220;fast shudder&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has rattled Taranaki this morning, with around 2000 people reporting feeling the shaking. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8215,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-591311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-earthquakes","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591311","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=591311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}