{"id":631175,"date":"2026-10-15T07:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T07:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/631175\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T07:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T07:44:09","slug":"magnitude-5-7-earthquake-near-taumarunui-more-than-5000-people-report-shakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/631175\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 5.7 earthquake near Taumarunui, more than 5000 people report shakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThis is due to the subducting tectonic plate under the North Island – most of the quake\u2019s energy travels up and along the plate to the surface,\u201d GeoNet said on Facebook.<\/p>\n

\u201cThough the epicentre is close to Taumarunui it is not a continuation of the earthquake sequence that rocked the settlement earlier in the year<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

People on social media described a noticeable shake with swaying, jolting and rolling across parts of the North and South islands.<\/p>\n

\u201cWas surprised we felt it. The whole lounge wobbled,\u201d one person in Nelson commented.<\/p>\n

Another in Wellington said: \u201cYep! Felt in Wellington City… jolt followed by slow rolling.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"FeltFelt reports across the country after a quake was recorded northeast of Taumarunui at 6.25pm on Thursday. Image \/ GeoNet<\/p>\n

\u201cGood shake and then rolling in Palmy North,\u201d another wrote.<\/p>\n

A person in the Marlborough Sounds described a \u201cmoderate 5 to 8 second wobble in the sounds\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis is due to the subducting tectonic plate under the North Island – most of the quake\u2019s energy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[119900,57908,6752,793,20699,130,23158,3180,111,43,139,69,384,12064,1560,766,71299,39428,131,2742],"class_list":["post-631175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-119900","tag-57908","tag-earthquake","tag-felt","tag-magnitude","tag-more","tag-nationwide","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-prompted","tag-report","tag-reports","tag-shakes","tag-taumarunui","tag-than","tag-thousands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631175","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=631175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}