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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07 Dec: Five fire crews and two helicopters have contained a vegetation fire in North Canterbury

07 Dec: One hiker's died, and another's been rescued from a track on the South Island's West Coast

07 Dec: About 75 properties are without power in the Bay of Plenty town of Te Puna - after a vehicle crashed into a power pole around 7.30 this morning

07 Dec: The Department of Conservation's accused a handful of Tongariro Alpine Crossing shuttle operators of putting trampers at risk

06 Dec: Multiple homes have been destroyed near major urban centres as fires rip through bushland in tinderbox, heatwave-fuelled conditions

06 Dec: The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is about to resume, 11 years after the plane disappeared in 2014 on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing

06 Dec: A four-vehicle crash is bringing weekend traffic to a halt in Auckland's central city - with one man believed to have been trapped

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