{"id":600577,"date":"2026-09-15T00:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T00:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/600577\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T00:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T00:38:14","slug":"more-than-5000-people-report-4-8-magnitude-quake-off-taranaki-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/600577\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 5000 people report 4.8 magnitude quake off Taranaki coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>14 Sep, 2026 11:05 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A small earthquake off Taranaki has been felt across central New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The 4.8 magnitude quake, categorised as \u201cweak\u201d by GeoNet, struck in the Tasman Sea, 70km southwest of the small town of Waverley, at 10.44am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The shake was 82km deep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         More than 5000 people reported feeling it, with most<br \/>\n         clustered at the top of the South Island and lower half of the North Island.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"DsYfyjGuqRwC\" style=\"display:none\">One man in Nelson described the earthquake as \u201cpretty gentle\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 14 Sep, 2026 11:05 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[117582,119900,2840,1558,1853,11586,6752,793,20699,130,111,43,139,69,6662,384,8206,1560,4499,16715,131,80],"class_list":["post-600577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-117582","tag-119900","tag-across","tag-been","tag-central","tag-coast","tag-earthquake","tag-felt","tag-magnitude","tag-more","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-off","tag-people","tag-quake","tag-report","tag-small","tag-taranaki","tag-than","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600577","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=600577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}