{"id":2063,"date":"2023-01-04T08:38:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T19:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2023-01-04T08:38:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T19:38:33","slug":"magnitude-5-1-earthquake-shakes-northern-parts-of-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2063","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 5.1 earthquake shakes northern parts of New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The northern part of New Zealand has been shaken by a strong earthquake this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The 5.1 magnitude quake hit at a depth of 7km about 5km south of Te Aroha in the Waikato region at 5.39am.<\/p>\n<p>More than 20,000 people reported feeling a shake in the areas nearby, including Hamilton, Tauranga, Auckland, and Rotorua.<\/p>\n<p>It was followed by two 2.7 magnitude earthquakes in the same spot at 5.47am and 5.51am.<\/p>\n<p>About 8000 people reported feeling the first aftershock, and about 4000 reported feeling the second.<\/p>\n<p>Truck driver Darryn Phayer said his 25-tonne truck swayed sharply in the first earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The truck started violently shaking and I thought &#8216;oh what&#8217;s going on here&#8217;, but literally, prior to that, in the farm across the road from the yard, a bunch of dogs started barking and I thought &#8216;oh what&#8217;s upset them&#8217; and within a couple of minutes, it was up on GeoNet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[It] scared the living daylights out of me, to be honest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the east coast, Pauanui resident Christine Harrison said it was the strongest quake she had ever felt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a strong jolt in that it made me grab the edge of the bed to really hold on but as quickly as it started, it stopped.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It comes after a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/481597\/early-morning-quake-hits-waikato-bay-of-plenty\">3.9 magnitude quake hit<\/a>\u00a0in the same spot last week.<\/p>\n<p>GeoNet said they were likely on the same fault system.<\/p>\n<p>The area last had a strong quake in 1972 with a 4.9 magnitude earthquake, GeoNet said.<\/p>\n<p>A 1972 bulletin, published by the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, reports a 5.1 magnitude quake in the area, with damage confined to the region but also felt as far as Mangakino and Whakat\u0101ne.<\/p>\n<p>There was also said to be numerous aftershocks the next month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE -RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The northern part of New Zealand has been shaken by a strong earthquake this morning. The 5.1 magnitude quake hit at a depth of 7km about 5km south of Te Aroha in the Waikato region at 5.39am. More than 20,000 people reported feeling a shake in the areas nearby, including Hamilton, Tauranga, Auckland, and Rotorua. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2063","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\/2063","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=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions\/2065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}