Last night’s deep earthquake in the Marlborough Sounds was widely felt in the lower North Island and upper South Island.
The magnitude 4.6 quake which struck at 11:20 p.m. on Sunday the 16th of March 2008 was located 100 km north-west of Wellington, 80 km north-east of Nelson near French Pass in the Marlborough Sounds. The epicentre’s depth of 100 km allowed it to be felt over a greater area, with reports being filed from Kaiata on the South Island’s West Coast, Akaroa on Banks Peninsula to Waitara in Taranaki and throughout the Wellington region.
Reports from Motueka, Nelson and Karori describe strong shaking. By 9 o’clock this morning, the public had filed 170 reports of the event with GeoNet.
[Compiled from data provided by the Geonet project and its sponsors EQC, GNS Science and FRST.]