Eastern regions of the North Island were rocked awake by a moderate quake this morning.
The magnitude 4.5 tremor, was centred 30km south of Wairoa.
It struck at 5.53am.
While more than 560 people, mainly around Napier and Hastings, registered feeling it on Geonet's website, most said it felt light or weak.
It was initially recorded as magnitude 4.9 but revised down to 4.5.