Thousands report feeling earthquake near Wellington NZ Herald
31 Mar, 2019 07:01 AM
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Save Share this article Copy Link Email Facebook Twitter/X LinkedIn Reddit Thousands reported feeling a 3.6 magnitude earthquake in Wellington. Image / GeoNet
More than 5000 people have reported feeling a weak earthquake near Wellington.
GeoNet reported a magnitude 3.6 earthquake struck about 10km south-west of Paraparaumu at 7.46pm today.
The earthquake was 44km deep, GeoNet reported.
More than 5300 people had reported feeling it by 8pm.
Residents took to Twitter to describe
the shake with one saying: "Our house normally doesn't move for anything under a 5, but it did with that one."
