Did You Feel the New Zealand Quake?

[davenn]

A strong quake this morning about 1 hour before typing this.
Offshore of the lower west coast of the North Island of New Zealand

Felt reports from across New Zealand
https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/2020p391429

Quake info ….
https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/technical/2020p391429Dave

 

[berkeman]

No injuries so far?

 

[fresh_42]

The quake was about 37 +/- 4 km deep according to the source you linked. The average thickness of the Earth's crust is 35 km, says Wikipedia. In a documentary about NZ I've heard today that Earth's crust is especially thin around NZ.

Hence my question: Was this a mantle quake?

 

[StevieTNZ]

Was quite a shake!

 

[StevieTNZ]

Just had another. details to come

EDIT: https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/2020p394658

 

[Astronuc]

USGS reports -
M 5.6 - 29km WNW of Foxton, New Zealand
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us70009pku/executive

• 2020-05-24 19:53:32 (UTC)
• 40.393°S 174.966°E
• 51.9 km depth

M 5.0 - 27km W of Foxton, New Zealand
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us70009qa3/executive

• 2020-05-26 00:34:03 (UTC)
• 40.475°S 174.971°E
• 54.1 km depth