University and business district evacuated again... — Juan Fdez Castellano (@juanfc21) August 16, 2013. A magnitude 6.8 earthquake has struck south of New Zealand's capital Wellington, sending panicked workers and residents into the streets just weeks after a … A 5.8 quake is classed as “moderate,” but such tremors are still capable of causing structural damage in populated areas. Read RT Privacy policy to find out more. All rights reserved. "Unfortunately when we have something like this there's also an elevated chance of getting another earthquake of a similar magnitude.". The quake caught New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern mid-interview. A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck around 90 kilometers northwest of Wellington, the capital of New Zealand. Wellington Earthquake 2013. 2013-07-21 05:09:31 UTC at 05:09 July 21, 2013 UTC Location: Epicenter at -41.704, 174.337 38.2 km from Blenheim (23.2 miles) Cook Strait, New Zealand By. ", Nouvelle-Zélande : Le séisme ressenti à Wellington pendant un direct de la première ministre Jacinda Ardern dans l'émission @TheAMShowNZ (@radionz) pic.twitter.com/N1cB9BBpH0. "A few people [were] trapped in lifts that have been cleared but we seem to have escaped relatively unharmed. NZ even more unstable than previously thought, Australians are "complacent" to the risks posed by earthquakes. Bill Fry, who's a seismologist with GNS, in Wellington, says the quake was is similar to a 6.4 tremor which struck in the same area on July 21. © Autonomous Nonprofit Organization “TV-Novosti”, 2005–2020. Latest earthquake is #55889 being magnitude 2.45 at 7.01 km at 9:54pm, about 48 mins ago. Asked by the interview host if she wanted to resume the interview, Adern said she did not mind, quipping that she was “not under any hanging lights”, “I look like I am in a structurally strong place. The tremor was felt by Kiwis all across the country’s North Island. 0. The quake struck shortly before 8am on Monday, local time. 10. Anna Kaiser, a seismologist with the official GNS monitoring service, said it was impossible to predict how long the latest burst of activity would last. — Pat McCarthy (@DrPatMcCarthy) August 16, 2013, That was a really stroong one !!!!!!!!! TheDailyBlog Reposts. New Zealand is on the boundary of the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates, forming part of the so-called "Ring of Fire", and experiences up to 15,000 tremors a year. Went from fast asleep, and now I’m like fully alert now! ✌️ #earthquake#Levin. "It was pretty scary. That devastating 8.2-magnitude quake caused four deaths and changed the city's entire geography, pushing the shoreline out 200 metres as it thrust the harbour floor upwards. Lifts were out of action in some office buildings and, as the aftershocks continued, many businesses sent their workers home early on Friday afternoon, causing large traffic jams in the capital. 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This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. © Copyright 2019 TheDailyBlog.co.nz. Share this story! A magnitude 6.8 earthquake has struck south of New Zealand's capital Wellington, sending panicked workers and residents into the streets just weeks after a similar tremor struck the city. This was the strongest I'd felt," Mr Small told Radio Australia's Pacific Beat. The epicenter of the quake was 35 miles south of the capital city of Wellington. What caused the recent earthquakes in Australia? July 23, 2013. No major damage to buildings in the capital was immediately reported. Residents of the town of Levin, just 30km from the quake’s epicenter, were literally shaken awake. That was me yelling as the apartment was rocking and rolling. 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Damn that must have been the biggest earthquake I’ve felt in this little town! This website uses cookies. 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"There is a report of a house collapsing in Seddon which is a small town very close to the epicentre on the South Island but we haven't got the details through yet.". — Darien Fenton (@DarienFenton) August 16, 2013. Staff member stood down over Sydney airport land scandal. Occurring off the coast of New Zealand’s North Island, the shaking was felt by more than 35,000 people in Wellington and beyond, according to government seismic monitor Geonet. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), Workers told to stay away from Wellington CBD after quake, 'He was very violent at home': Wife of dead soldier tells inquest warnings were ignored, Police fear 'repercussions' after younger brother of Brothers 4 Life leader shot dead. A magnitude 6.2 quake in 2011 devastated the city of Christchurch, killing 185 people. #eqnz. There have been hundreds of aftershocks since the July quake, with residents fearing a repeat of a devastating quake that hit Christchurch in February 2011, killing 185 people. At first the earthquake was reported as a 6.9, but when the earthquake was analyzed, the magnitude was altered to 6.5. Train services were also temporarily stopped in case rails had buckled in the quake, but police said they had received no reports of significant damage. Vernon Small, Fairfax New Zealand’s National Affairs Editor Fairfax was in parliament when the quake struck. That was the biggest earthquake I haveever felt. The PM, who was responding to a question live on-air when the rattle occurred, appeared unperturbed by the mild shaking. Everyone ok? New Zealand’s location on the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire means the island nation is struck by a whopping 20,000 earthquakes every year, the vast majority of them too small to be felt. Big shake down here in Wellington - biggest I've felt in a few years at least! Local reports said the quake was felt as far away as Gisborne, Auckland and Hamilton. NZ travel bubble was only supposed to be with NSW and the NT, so why are Kiwis heading to other states? Train services in Wellington were suspended, as engineers inspected tracks for damage. googletag.pubads().definePassback('/9201682/TDB_Extra_Ad_1', [[300, 600], [300, 250]]).display(); Launched on Friday 1 March, 2013, the ‘TheDailyBlog.co.nz’ unites New Zealand’s leading left/centre-left commentators and progressive opinion shapers to provide the other side of the story on today’s news, media and political agendas. Predicting earthquakes: are we there yet? The quake struck shortly before 8am on Monday, local time. There were also reports of power cuts to areas of the South Island, and Wellington's airport was briefly closed to check the runway for damage. 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