{"id":15589,"date":"2025-11-07T04:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15589"},"modified":"2025-11-07T04:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:58:07","slug":"earthquake-in-cook-strait-shakes-wellington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15589","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake in Cook Strait shakes Wellington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An earthquake struck Wellington on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>GeoNet said the moderate 4.9 magnitude quake struck at 9.09pm and was centred 25km west of Wellington at a depth of 22km.<\/p>\n<p>The earthquake was initially recorded as a magnitude 5.1 but has since been downgraded by GeoNet.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>If you felt the quake, and would like to share it with us, please email:\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"mailto:iwitness@radionz.co.nz\">iwitness@radionz.co.nz<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Almost 30,000 people reported feeling the tremor.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An earthquake struck Wellington on Thursday evening. GeoNet said the moderate 4.9 magnitude quake struck at 9.09pm and was centred 25km west of Wellington at a depth of 22km. The earthquake was initially recorded as a magnitude 5.1 but has since been downgraded by GeoNet. If you felt the quake, and would like to share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15589","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\/15589","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=15589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15591,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15589\/revisions\/15591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}