News | Upper North Island
3 Dec 2025 14:51
| outlook hotmail | yahoo mail | gmail | news | weather | finance | shopping | about nzcity | Search |
NZCity News
NZCity CalculatorReturn to NZCity
SEARCH 

  • Start Page
  • Personalise
    •    News
  • Sport
  • Weather
  • Finance
  • Shopping
  • Jobs
  • Horoscopes
  • Lotto Results
  • Photo Gallery
  • Site Gallery
  • TVNow
  • Dating
  • SearchNZ
  • NZSearch
  • Crime.co.nz
  • RugbyLeague
  • Make Home
  • About NZCity
  • Contact NZCity
  • Your Privacy
  • Advertising
  • Login
  • Join for Free

    •
      Home > News > National > Upper North Island

    A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has hit near New Plymouth

    A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has hit near New Plymouth



    GeoNet says it struck at 2.35 this afternoon - and was recorded at a depth of 10 kilometres and was located about 35 kilometres north of the city.

    © 2025 Newstalk ZB, NZCity

     Other Upper North Island News
     01 Dec: Police have named a man killed in an altercation in New Plymouth last month - as 68-year-old Martin James Mooney
     30 Nov: A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for parts of Kaipara, Auckland City, Waikato, Waitakere, Franklin, Rodney and Albany areas
     30 Nov: A man's been arrested after a gun shot was allegedly let off yesterday, near a popular Thames swimming hole
     28 Nov: State Highway 36 Pyes Pa Road near Tauranga is blocked, after a car collided with a power pole
     26 Nov: A person has died after a two-truck crash on Waikato's State Highway Two near Maramarua about 11.30 this morning
     25 Nov: A woman's moderately injured - after being assaulted in her Whangarei home overnight
     25 Nov: Police have revealed an 11-year-old was one of two who drowned off Whangarei's coast 11 days ago
     Top Stories

    RUGBY RUGBY
    Striving to compete with a specialist American medley training squad is the reason behind two-time Olympian Lewis Clareburt making the move to Australia More...

    BUSINESS BUSINESS
    Years of effort have paid off - to have New Zealand's financial benchmark system for commercial transactions recognised in the European Union More...


     Today's News

    		 Law and Order:
    Andrew Coster has apologised, saying he should've done better when he was Police Commissioner 14:17

     National:
    Euphemisms and false balance: how the media is helping to normalise far-right views 14:17

     International:
    Humanitarian migrants in US fear being deported into danger following shooting 14:17

     Law and Order:
    The Veterinary Council has censured and fined Auckland restaurateur Leo Molloy - who breached a court suppression order by naming a murderer 14:07

     Rugby:
    Striving to compete with a specialist American medley training squad is the reason behind two-time Olympian Lewis Clareburt making the move to Australia 13:57

     Business:
    Years of effort have paid off - to have New Zealand's financial benchmark system for commercial transactions recognised in the European Union 13:27

     National:
    ‘Quiet divorcing’ puts a new name to an old problem — the slow erosion of intimacy 13:07

     International:
    South-East Asian floods leave more than 1 million people homeless across Indonesia and Sri Lanka 13:07

     Environment:
    Much of the upper North Island remains under a Severe Thunderstorm Watch until tonight 12:27

     Law and Order:
    Dunedin Police have seized 820-kilograms of pounamu - after searches on Monday 11:57

     News Search




    Power Search

    © 2025 New Zealand City Ltd