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A rolling series of quakes has swept goods from shelves and shaken nerves, with locals saying they're rattled and scared.

“It is just a good reminder to everyone to be prepared and that we live in a very active country.” “I am definitely rattled from this… ”Our message to people feeling rattled right now is that what you are feeling is normal and human - and we know lots of people will be thinking back to the big Edgecumbe quake. Naude advised the standard “drop, cover and hold” when people felt a quake, and said people in coastal tsunami evacuation areas should evacuate inland or to higher ground if they felt a long or strong quake. “It is probably very unsettling to get a bunch of earthquakes like this, especially on the back of the crazy weather from February. “There are shortages in supermarkets, and it feels like there is one natural disaster after the other.” “As of this morning, there were plenty of earthquakes still coming through, and it often takes a few days to die out completely.” “In this particular area we have seen several swarms in the past, most recently in 2018 and 2019.” “We have a warning saying incoming thunderstorms and rain, remain indoors, and then we have long and strong earthquakes where we are meant to get gone.” “You just want to run outside and stand in the middle of the f...... “It was scary enough to be home with kids and then come to work and try to clean it up and it is still shaking. “We were pretty much up since then with all the tremors happening, because you just want to be prepared in case you had to run outside.”

Nearly 3000 people reported feeling the 4.8M quake at 4.46am which was also located 25km south-west of Whakatane at a depth of 5km. NZ Civil Defence also posted ...

Our friends at GeoNet tell us this is an earthquake swarm, causing a series of shakes which have woken quite a few people up. Nearly 3000 people reported feeling the 4.8M quake at 4.46am which was also located 25km south-west of Whakatane at a depth of 5km. Over 2000 people reported feeling the 4.6M quake at 4,31am which was located 25 km south-west of Whakatane at a depth of 5km. "Feeling earthquakes close together in time can be unsettling, but this is typical activity for the area, and our team is keeping an eye on things," says Geonet on Facebook. A swarm of earthquakes has been occurring overnight south-west of Kawerau, and felt across the Bay of Plenty. "We have recorded more than 40 earthquakes so far, the largest of which have been a M4.8 and M4.6," says a Geonet spokesperson on their Facebook page.

The biggest quake was a magnitude 4.8 at 4.46am, while another was a magnitude 4.6. The first tremor was a magnitude 3.4 tremor at 3.29am. “This swarm is ...

”My animals have been beside themselves. ”I can hear continuous rumbling. 'Shaken awake': Swarm of more than 40 earthquakes hits Bay of Plenty A swarm of more than 40 Kiri Schindler said she had felt more than 50 quakes in Kawerau that started at 3.30am when she was “shaken awake” and some were “very strong”. [earthquakes](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/earthquakes/) has hit the Bay of Plenty this morning.