{"id":618772,"date":"2026-10-02T20:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618772\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T20:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:18:10","slug":"intense-taranaki-rattled-by-5-3-early-morning-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618772\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Intense&#8217;: Taranaki rattled by 5.3 early morning earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;strong&#8221; magnitude 5.3 earthquake rattled Taranaki in the early hours of this morning.  <\/p>\n<p>According to GeoNet, the quake struck at around 3am, 25 kilometres east of New Plymouth at a depth of 11km.  <\/p>\n<p>The shaking was described as &#8220;strong&#8221; and was reported by over 7000 people.  <\/p>\n<p>On social media, one person described it as &#8220;intense&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was asleep and felt like something picked me up and shook the living crap out of me! Lots of stuff fell down. Still got the shakes now,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p>Another wrote: &#8220;Scariest s*** ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A &#8220;strong&#8221; magnitude 5.3 earthquake rattled Taranaki in the early hours of this morning. According to GeoNet, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8215,111,43,139,69,16715],"class_list":["post-618772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-earthquakes","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-taranaki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618772","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=618772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}