{"id":607395,"date":"2026-09-21T18:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/607395\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T18:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:50:11","slug":"small-shake-magnitude-5-1-quake-jolts-north-islands-east-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/607395\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Small shake&#8217;: Magnitude 5.1 quake jolts North Island&#8217;s East Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A deep magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the East Coast this afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>According to GeoNet, the tremor struck at 4.28pm, around 155km north of Te Araroa. <\/p>\n<p>The quake had a depth of 195 km, GeoNet said. <\/p>\n<p>Around 990 people reported feeling the shaking, classified as &#8220;weak&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>One Facebook user in Tolaga Bay reported feeling the &#8220;small shake&#8221;, while several others in Gisborne reported feeling the late afternoon jolt. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A deep magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the East Coast this afternoon. According to GeoNet, the tremor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8215,12506,111,43,139,69,1756],"class_list":["post-607395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-earthquakes","tag-gisborne","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607395","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=607395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}