{"id":641695,"date":"2026-10-26T10:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/641695\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T10:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:22:10","slug":"stronger-quake-strikes-near-blenheim-hours-after-whanganui-shake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/641695\/","title":{"rendered":"Stronger quake strikes near Blenheim hours after Whanganui shake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cGood wee shake and rattle here in Picton,\u201d one person commented on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cQuite a wobble,\u201d another added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">It came just hours after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/whanganui-earthquake-hundreds-report-feeling-magnitude-40-shake\/35J45GJJDNA4FGMB3WFXRITQZU\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/whanganui-earthquake-hundreds-report-feeling-magnitude-40-shake\/35J45GJJDNA4FGMB3WFXRITQZU\/\">magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck near Whanganui<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">That quake hit at 3.33pm, about 30km south of Whanganui, at a depth of 12km, according to GeoNet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">The shaking was classed as light, although some residents reported stronger shaking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Locals raced to social media to describe the quake, with several comparing the rumbling to a passing heavy truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">One person said they heard the quake approaching before feeling a sudden jolt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHeard it coming, thought it was the wind then bang!\u201d they wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Another described hearing \u201ca bang, then a rumble then the shake\u201d, while a resident in Aramoho reported a \u201cbig jolt\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">GeoNet reminded people to drop, cover and hold during an earthquake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cGood wee shake and rattle here in Picton,\u201d one person commented on Facebook. \u201cQuite a wobble,\u201d another added.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[314676,74,17184,6752,11551,46369,20699,3180,111,43,139,69,17711,8206,8466,21226,19063,42699,1865,1883,80],"class_list":["post-641695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-4plus","tag-after","tag-blenheim","tag-earthquake","tag-hours","tag-jolted","tag-magnitude","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-parts","tag-quake","tag-second","tag-shake","tag-strikes","tag-stronger","tag-today","tag-whanganui","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641695","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=641695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}