{"id":11611,"date":"2024-10-07T07:09:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T18:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11611"},"modified":"2024-10-07T07:09:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T18:09:51","slug":"strong-4-8-earthquake-shakes-southern-hawkes-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11611","title":{"rendered":"Strong 4.8 earthquake shakes southern Hawke&#8217;s Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck late on Sunday night in southeastern Hawke&#8217;s Bay, about 5km from P\u014drangahau.<\/p>\n<p>It had a shallow depth of 16km and is considered a strong quake by GNS Science.<\/p>\n<p>The GeoNet website showed more than 2000 people across the central and lower North Island reported feeling the shake about 11.20pm.<\/p>\n<p>There were eight aftershocks between 12.05am and 4.05, the strongest being a magnitude 3.3 quake just before 3am.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/529936\/magnitude-5-point-7-quake-shakes-central-nz\">magnitude 5.7 earthquake<\/a>\u00a0struck central New Zealand. A person in the Wellington suburb of \u014cwhiro Bay said it was &#8220;a mean jolt, like a truck hitting the house&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Further from the epicentre, in Whanganui, another listener experienced &#8220;fine trembling as lead in, then rocking with window sash weights noisy in old two-storey wooden home&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington Region Emergency Management Office regional manager Jeremy Holmes called it a &#8220;significant shake for the capital&#8221; but with no significant impacts.<\/p>\n<p>A large Wellington apartment building was evacuated on Sunday evening and the area cordoned off due to concerns about structural damage following an earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>Just after midnight, the spokesperson said the building had been assessed by Fire and Emergency New Zealand as safe to re-enter. The 16-storey building has 123 apartments, as well as retail and commercial offices on the lower four floors.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck late on Sunday night in southeastern Hawke&#8217;s Bay, about 5km from P\u014drangahau. It had a shallow depth of 16km and is considered a strong quake by GNS Science. The GeoNet website showed more than 2000 people across the central and lower North Island reported feeling the shake about 11.20pm. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11612,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11611\/revisions\/11612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}