Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\nA GeoNet map shows the location of the magnitude 4.0 earthquake, which struck 30km south of Whanganui on Monday.<\/p>\n
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck near Whanganui this afternoon, with hundreds reporting feeling the shaking.<\/p>\n
The quake hit at 3.33pm, about 30km south of Whanganui, at a depth of 12km, according to GeoNet.<\/p>\n
The shaking was classed as light, although some residents reported feeling stronger tremors.<\/p>\n
\n Within minutes, 853
\n people had submitted reports to GeoNet, including 30 who described the shaking as moderate, three as strong and one as severe.\n <\/p>\n
Locals raced to social media to describe the shake, with several comparing the rumbling to a passing heavy truck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24041,11730,6752,15313,42,24176,20699,3180,43,1560,5352,21226,143360,20705,1961,40,38,41,39,1883,102],"class_list":["post-641523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-24041","tag-afternoon","tag-earthquake","tag-feeling","tag-headlines","tag-hundreds","tag-magnitude","tag-near","tag-news","tag-report","tag-reporting","tag-shake","tag-shaking","tag-struck","tag-this","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-whanganui","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641523","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=641523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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