{"id":607123,"date":"2026-09-21T12:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T12:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/607123\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T12:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T12:48:12","slug":"wairarapa-earthquake-magnitude-4-1-quake-strikes-west-of-masterton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/607123\/","title":{"rendered":"Wairarapa earthquake: Magnitude 4.1 quake strikes west of Masterton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">In Upper Plain, Masterton, a resident described a \u201cloud, violent jolt\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">Another person said their house felt as though it had been hit by a train.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">In Lansdowne, one resident said the quake appeared to come in \u201ctwo waves\u201d, while another said their house creaked before a short wobble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">Further north, a Dannevirke resident said it felt \u201clike a freight train going past the door at speed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">The quake follows a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/east-coast-earthquake-magnitude-51-tremor-strikes-north-of-te-araroa\/C5DTPIHDH5CFNBUG6V44Y3ZKXQ\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/east-coast-earthquake-magnitude-51-tremor-strikes-north-of-te-araroa\/C5DTPIHDH5CFNBUG6V44Y3ZKXQ\/\">magnitude 5.1 tremor<\/a> off the North Island\u2019s East Coast this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Upper Plain, Masterton, a resident described a \u201cloud, violent jolt\u201d. Another person said their house felt as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[35025,6752,19555,2514,2513,20699,89421,111,43,139,529,69,1118,8206,8210,19063,1961,62,3807],"class_list":["post-607123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-35025","tag-earthquake","tag-evening","tag-island","tag-lower","tag-magnitude","tag-masterton","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-quake","tag-rattled","tag-strikes","tag-this","tag-wairarapa","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607123","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=607123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}