More than 1000 claims have been lodged with the Earthquake Commission following the swarm of quakes centred off the Seddon coast.

Wellington Regional Council offices in Wakefield St remain closed to the public today as engineers continue to assess the building in the wake of Sunday's violent earthquake.

The small town of Seddon, the closest town to the weekend's earthquakes, is cleaning up after the damage wrought by the tremors.

The next few days will be a trying time for many in Wellington, but people are being urged to remember that children in particular need special attention at this time.

The Cook Strait earthquakes may have occurred on an unmapped fault line, seismologists believe.

Tired and frustrated domestic air travellers were stuck at Auckland Airport yesterday for up to six hours after thick fog grounded flights.

Insurance companies are refusing policies to new customers in central New Zealand after Sunday's 6.5 earthquake.

Former Christchurch resident Angela Senior and her three young daughters were in Marlborough for the school holidays when the Sunday evening quake hit.

Editorial: Wellington has also felt more frequent big shakes in the past few days than Christchurch did during its 16-month ordeal and Wellington's is probably not over.

Frenchman Luca Zappula feared a tsunami was on its way when Sunday's big quake hit - but he still snapped amazing pics of the slip in front of him.

Wellington's shipping and cargo port will remain in business this week, as work to clean debris caused by the big quake begins.

Wellington's earthquakes have put the spotlight back on seismic issues.

Wellington's mayor is hopeful it will be business as normal tomorrow despite 35 buildings in the CBD found to have been externally damaged by yesterday's severe earthquake.

Scientists are deploying extra seismic instruments in Marlborough to enable more accurate measurement of the aftershocks off the coast of Seddon.

"Major journalistic fail," wrote one commenter after an American website reported yesterday's big quake was felt in Seddon -in Victoria, Australia.

Livestream of the media conference following the Wellington earthquake.

Russell Duncan a NewstalkZB sales rep shows a clean pair of heels in the Wellington office as the 6.5 quake shakes up his afternoon.

Residents of Seddon react to the earthquake and aftershocks that continue to plague Wellington and the top of the South Island after yesterday's 6.5 magnitude jolt which struck in the Cook Strait at 5.09pm. More than 100 aftershocks have been recorded since, including a 5.0 which hit 15km east of Seddon at 10.47 this morning.

Prime Minister says he's yet to get a briefing on how much yesterday's quake might have cost, but, in principle, the country can afford another big one.

NewstalkZB filmed inside the Seddon Town Hall which lost internal roofing during the 6.5 earthquake on Sunday.

Watch an animation of the last 48 hours of earthquakes from Wellington and Seddon from Saturday 9am to Monday 9am.

What you need to know today in the aftermath of yesterday's 6.5 quake which rattled the centre of the country.

Much of Wellington's CBD will be off limits this morning as streets and buildings remain closed following yesterday's big quakes and aftershocks.

The Herald's political editor Audrey Young says the Press Gallery hunts as a pack and panics as a pack during a quake.

The faultline causing earthquakes in Cook Strait has a history of producing "swarms" of quake.

"We've been here 25 years, and that's the biggest one by a mile." Wellington residents share their quake stories.

Streets are closed and buildings are damaged in Wellington after a 6.5 magnitude quake earlier today.