Moderate mag. 4.8 earthquake - 40 km east of Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, on Saturday, Mar 18, 2023 at 4:46 am (GMT +13) -

Edgecumbe / Strong shaking (MMI VI) / horizontal (sideways) swinging / 5-10 s : A sharp jolt and then my house swaying side to side first one woke me at 4,30am and then another 2 more felt the last one at 4,50am while standing in my kitchen and still getting little tremors the time is now 5,08am | 4 users found this interesting.   

Whakatane, Bay of Plenty (27.5 km ENE of epicenter) [Map] / Very weak shaking (MMI II) / horizontal (sideways) swinging / 2-5 s : Second short shake. Like someone trying to wake me up | 3 users found this interesting. (reported through our app)   

Kawerau / Moderate shaking (MMI V) / vibration and rolling / 2-5 s    

Kawerau (4.1 km SSE of epicenter) [Map] / Moderate shaking (MMI V) / rattling, vibrating / 5-10 s : Shake loud and movement | One user found this interesting.   

Hamurana (36.3 km W of epicenter) [Map] / Light shaking (MMI IV) / horizontal (sideways) swinging / 5-10 s : In bed | One user found this interesting.   

Whakatane (29.6 km ENE of epicenter) [Map] / Moderate shaking (MMI V) / horizontal (sideways) swinging / 20-30 s : 3rd afterahock wave. hearing the rumble..getting out of bed to prep near our main exit | One user found this interesting.   

Ngawaro near Te Puke, Bay of Plenty / Moderate shaking (MMI V) / horizontal (sideways) swinging / 10-15 s : We live in a bus and because it has rubber tyres we can feel any tremors more intensely than being in a house. Partner and I live at Ngawaro, 20 minutes from Te Puke on Te Matai Road. 20 minutes by car to Ngongotaha. Asleep in bed and wete woken by firstly a violent shaking and then followed by three smaller tremors. Later in the morning around 9.00am felt yet another small tremor. Quite scary the first tremor.   

Tepuke bayofplenty / Light shaking (MMI IV) / rattling, vibrating / 10-15 s : Vibrations &rattling, then herd loud humming in distance followed by another small quake | One user found this interesting.   

Te Teko / Moderate shaking (MMI V) / horizontal (sideways) swinging / 2-5 s : one good moderate shake with at least six after shakes. | One user found this interesting.   

Hastings NZ (216.9 km NW of epicenter) [Map] / Moderate shaking (MMI V) / single vertical bump : I WAS ASLEEP AND THE SHARP MOVEMENT OF MY QUEEN BED AWOKE ME I REALISED THIS WAS AN EARTHQUAKE   

Reporoa new Zealand (54.4 km SW of epicenter) [Map] / Weak shaking (MMI III) / rattling, vibrating / 5-10 s : In bed felt shaking, heard clock rattling   

Ohinemutu, Rotorua, Bay of Plenty (30.2 km W of epicenter) [Map] / Light shaking (MMI IV) / horizontal (sideways) swinging / 10-15 s

Nz (10.5 km ENE of epicenter) [Map] / Moderate shaking (MMI V)

58 parawai road Ngongotaha (41.6 km W of epicenter) [Map] / Light shaking (MMI IV) / horizontal (sideways) swinging / 10-15 s

Rotorua (36 km WSW of epicenter) [Map] / Weak shaking (MMI III) / rattling, vibrating / 5-10 s

Tauranga, New Zealand (62.6 km NW of epicenter) [Map] / Very weak shaking (MMI II) / very short : In bed on 3rd floor   

Edgecumbe, Whakatane District, Bay of Plenty (13.3 km ENE of epicenter) [Map] / Light shaking (MMI IV) / rattling, vibrating / 10-15 s (reported through our app)

Rotorua (33.9 km WSW of epicenter) [Map] / Light shaking (MMI IV) / rattling, vibrating / 2-5 s

Kawerau (5.8 km ENE of epicenter) [Map] / Light shaking (MMI IV)

In bed / Strong shaking (MMI VI) / complex motion difficult to describe

Rotorua / Weak shaking (MMI III) / single lateral shake / 2-5 s

Ohauiti / Light shaking (MMI IV) / horizontal (sideways) swinging / 5-10 s : Woke from sleeping   

Te Puke / Light shaking (MMI IV)

Whakatane / Light shaking (MMI IV) / both vertical and horizontal swinging / 5-10 s : Was asleep and woke to rocking and a rolling. Just made me hang on to the bed tighter (reported through our app)   

Kawerau / Moderate shaking (MMI V) / rattling, vibrating / 2-5 s

Te Puke / Light shaking (MMI IV) / horizontal (sideways) swinging / 5-10 s

293B Benner Road pukehina / Light shaking (MMI IV) / single lateral shake / 5-10 s

kawerau / Strong shaking (MMI VI) / complex motion difficult to describe / 10-15 s

Ohope / Strong shaking (MMI VI) / vertical swinging (up and down) : Ass clencher (reported through our app)   

Kawerau / Moderate shaking (MMI V) / both vertical and horizontal swinging / 5-10 s

27 rangataua street, tauranga / Light shaking (MMI IV) / rattling, vibrating / 1-2 s