Seventeen-thousand people have reported feeling the jolt, which is being described by Geonet as 'strong'.

It struck 15 kilometres south-west of Wellington before midnight last night, at a depth of 13 kilometres.

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27 Feb: It's expected to be months before storm-ravaged highways on the Coromandel Peninsula are fully restored

27 Feb: Police are scaling back their search for a man missing in Palmerston North's Manawatu River

27 Feb: The two dogs involved in the attack that left three people injured in Christchurch's Bryndwr at the weekend, have been euthanised

27 Feb: A new rescue helicopter pad in the Mackenzie District, is the work of the community

26 Feb: An IT outage affected radiology departments in Auckland and Northland hospitals this afternoon

26 Feb: Four people have been injured - two seriously - after a bus and a car crashed in Auckland's Ponsonby, about 4pm

26 Feb: Eight people have been taken to hospital after a crash in central Hawke's Bay this morning

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