GeoNet says the moderate quake had a depth of 24 kilometres, striking shortly after 9pm.

People have told our newsroom the shaking went on for some time, rattling windows and glassware.

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06 Nov: Assurance power is coming back on in the Far North, following an equipment failure's knocked out power for thousands of homes

05 Nov: The number of Southerners without power is down to double digits - nearly two weeks since wild winds cut nearly 25 thousand homes off

04 Nov: A win for some people in the bottom of the South Island - with power back on for some left in the dark for more than 10 days

04 Nov: This year's winning Bird of the Year - karearea is attacking Wellington walkers on a popular bush walk

04 Nov: Whangarei's famous lion park's last seven elderly big cats - are being euthanised this week

04 Nov: People in Kaikoura are being urged to look for nationally vulnerable Hutton's shearwater birds, which may have crash landed

03 Nov: The fire is still burning at a house in Wellington's Island Bay - reported just before seven this evening

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