Hawkes Bay jolted by 4.2 quake

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Hawkes Bay has been jolted by a magnitude 4.2 earthquake.

The Mercalli intensity - how strongly the quake is felt on the surface - was 6, GNS Science said.

The tremor hit at 2.22pm, was centred 20km east of Napier and was 14km deep.