2024. 10. 6. 03:52ㆍThe Citing Articles
06 Oct. 2024
Tens of thousands of Kiwis were awakened by a strong, shallow earthquake centred near Wellington this morning.
The magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck at a depth of 33km at 5.08am.
The earthquake was centred 25km west of Wellington and was felt by 37,000 people, according to GeoNet.
GeoNet said the shaking could be felt as far south as Christchurch and as far north as Auckland.
A NZ Herald reporter woken by the strong shake in Wellington said it reminded her of the Kaikōura quake.
“It kept going really strong and I was thinking ‘is this going to get worse?’ I kept thinking back to the Kaikōura quake.”
Herald readers described the quake as “scary” and “heavy”.
“Sleeping on the first floor of five in a concrete hostel,” said Sheryl McFarlane. “It was a really scary experience with everything shaking & rolling.
“I wondered if those were [my] last moments at 5.09am.”
“I felt it, the loud rumbling then the whole building shook,” said Alanna McCabe. “I was asleep, the noise of it coming woke me, then the heavy shaking.”
Wellingtonians described the quake on social media as “nasty” and “sizeable”.
“So much for sleeping in,” said one person in the Kapiti Coast. “5.8 [magnitude] rattled me good.”
“Was crazy, my youngest woke up first in her cot, I almost ran to get my kids,” said a resident on Facebook. “You could definitely hear the whole house shaking it started off as just a small shake then out of no where this huge shake starts.”
“I’m in Wellington city and it literally shook me out of bed,” said another person. “Definitely the most scariest shake I’ve been in.”
Wellington Regional Emergency Management Office said anyone in bed when a strong earthquake hits should stay in bed.
“That was a decent shake to wake us up this morning whānau!
“Remember, in an earthquake to Drop, Cover and Hold.
“If you are in bed, stay in bed. Pull the sheets and blankets over you. You are less likely to be injured if you stay in bed.”
More to come
Magnitude 5.7 quake shakes central NZ
A strong 5.7 quake has jolted the lower North Island and top of the South Island.
The quake happened at 5.08am, centred 25 kilometres west of Wellington at a depth of 31km.
Wellington Region Emergency Management said on its Facebook page there was no tsunami warning.
Wellington transport operator Metlink said it was replacing trains with buses until further notice.
A person in the suburb of Johnsonville told RNZ items fell off their shelves, while a Whanganui resident said it was felt quite strongly there.
So far more than 37,000 people have reported feeling it to the Geonet website, from as far north as Auckland's North Shore down to Invercargill in the south.
A listener in the Wellington suburb of Ōwhiro Bay said it was "a mean jolt, like a truck hitting the house, it rocked the house".
And a listener in Blenheim reported: "Heard quake coming, as we often do here - a heavy freight train getting closer, rumbling sound increasing before strong creaking jolt."
Further from the epicentre, in Whanganui, another listener experienced "fine trembling as lead in, then rocking with window sash weights noisy in old two-storey wooden home".
One person on Meta-owned social media site Threads described it as the "strongest quake I've felt since those ones in 2016". Another said it "felt stronger than a 5.8".
"Well that's a check for damage in the morning one," one person wrote on Bluesky. "The whole house bounced up and down," said another.
Several people reported the quake woke them up.
Just on Saturday, emergency response teams from across the North Island took part in an exercise in Wellington to test their ability to respond to a large earthquake.
RNZ is New Zealand's statutory civil defence lifeline radio broadcaster, providing vital information and updates as they come to hand. All frequencies can be found here.
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