The light quake hit 10 kilometres south-west of Waverley, at a depth of 106 kilometres.

Within minutes more than 10-thousand people across central New Zealand had reported feeling it.

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02 Mar: Police are investigating an unexplained death in Whangarei, after a body was found this morning

02 Mar: A man's been taken into custody after armed police attended a family harm callout in Waikato's Parawera, southeast of Te Awamutu

01 Mar: Police are seeking more information about a serious assault in Matangi, in the Waikato

28 Feb: One person's died in a single vehicle crash, in Te Kopuru, south of Northland's Dargaville this morning

27 Feb: A man will appear in Napier District Court today facing a charge of the murder of Rotorua woman Sharlene Smith

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

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

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International:
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