{"id":596985,"date":"2026-09-11T10:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T10:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/596985\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T10:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T10:14:10","slug":"short-but-sharp-magnitude-4-0-quake-jolts-central-north-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/596985\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Short but sharp&#8217;: Magnitude 4.0 quake jolts central North Island"},"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 4.0 earthquake has jolted the central North Island this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">GeoNet said the earthquake struck at 4.25pm at a depth of 5km around 10km south of the town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Hundreds of people reported feeling the quake shortly after it struck, with more than 600 felt reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;That was a cracker earthquake,&#8221; one social media user said. &#8220;Short but sharp.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The earthquake occurred around the same area as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/07\/25\/aftershocks-to-continue-for-months-after-taumarunui-quake-seismologist\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July&#8217;s magnitude 5.9 quake<\/a> \u2014 the largest ever recorded in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has jolted the central North Island this afternoon. GeoNet said the earthquake struck at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8215,9001,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-596985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-earthquakes","tag-hamilton-waikato","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596985","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=596985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}