A small but moderately felt earthquake has jolted Auckland tonight.
According to GeoNet the earthquake was only 2.9 on the Richter Scale but was just 9kms deep, centred 10kms east of Auckland.
The earthquake was widely felt across highrise buildings in the CBD and across other central suburbs.
While the earthquake was tiny compared to the aftershocks in Christchurch, it’s the rareness of earthquakes in Auckland that will make it a headline story.
– WeatherWatch.co.nz
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1/07/2011 9:29am
A small but moderately felt earthquake has jolted Auckland tonight.
According to GeoNet the earthquake was only 2.9 on the Richter Scale but was just 9kms deep, centred 10kms east of Auckland.
The earthquake was widely felt across highrise buildings in the CBD and across other central suburbs.
While the earthquake was tiny compared to the aftershocks in Christchurch, it’s the rareness of earthquakes in Auckland that will make it a headline story.
– WeatherWatch.co.nz
Did you feel tonight’s earthquake? Post your suburb and comment below!
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Amber-Claire White on 5/05/2022 12:17pm
Felt and still feeling little rumbles up in Red Beach, Whangaparaoa
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Dean Foster on 28/02/2022 10:40am
felt bed shaking in drury 11:25pm
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Chloris on 21/02/2022 6:43pm
Felt in St.heliers bed was moving it woke me up.
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Namya on 22/02/2022 7:44pm
Must’ve been a slow moving quake – took you almost 12 years to feel it. Look at the date of this news story lol!!!!
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Marc-Austin Tampharne on 16/04/2022 10:29am
Mate, I haven’t laughed so hard in ages. Thank you
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Karen Stephen on 19/02/2022 2:41pm
Felt in Torbay
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Rosemary Weir on 15/02/2022 8:05am
Felt in PAPATOETOE .
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Heather Elliott on 11/02/2022 10:04am
Felt it in Browns Bay. No mistaking an earthquake.
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Elose Hillier on 25/01/2022 10:09am
Half Moon Bay
Shook the top floor of our home quite violently as it rumbled through
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