Small earthquakes rattle the Far North

Residents surrounding the Kerikeri inlet have had a few shakes in the past 72 hours, with a sequence of 5 small shallow earthquakes so far, all beneath the inlet. Many residences in the near vicinity had felt 3 of the earthquakes on Sunday and Tuesday evenings but the earthquakes didn’t initially appear on GeoNet. Then today, GeoNet seismologists confirmed the quake sequence of M1.8, M2.0, M1.0, M1.3, M2.1.

The location is on a previously unknown fault line under the inlet. It’s the first time on GeoNet’s records that quakes have registered in that area.

GeoNet recorded earthquakes under the Kerikeri inlet