“It was bouncy and bloody high”: a small earthquake stirs Dunedin

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An aerial photo over South Dunedin, where some residents reported a small tremor early Tuesday morning.

A small earthquake hit Dunedin early Tuesday morning.

On social media, dozens of people reported that they woke up from the earthquake at 12.57 am.

“It was bouncy and bloody loud,” said one Twitter user.

GeoNet said the quake’s epicenter was 30 km northwest of central Dunedin, near George King Memorial Road.

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About 1,140 people reported feeling the quake on the GeoNet website: 559 rated the quake as “weak,” while 525 classified it as “light.”

Jonathan Hanson, seismic shift officer at GNS Science, said: “Last night’s earthquake was unusual but…unexpected.

“Over the past 20 years, there have been 15 shallow earthquakes larger than M3 around Dunedin – many of which have been felt in Dunedin – particularly in 2014 and 2015 we had M4 and M4.7 in a very similar location to our continuing overnight event.”

There were known active faults in the area, he said, “and we may not have been able to point out several more faults yet because we either haven’t observed enough activity on them or we have good field observations.”

“This activity is a good reminder that there is potential for seismic activity everywhere in New Zealand, and Dunedin is no exception.”

The University of Otago’s Department of Geology and GNS Science, the Crown Research Institute, revealed in 2017 that the closest active geological fault to Dunedin is behaving strangely and may have a “splinter line”.

The Akatore Fault extends south of the Taieri Plains and into the sea from the Taieri Mouth.

Seismologists believe that the 1974 Dunedin earthquake resulted from a rupture along a fault or faults parallel to and close to the Akator fault.

The 1974 earthquake, later assessed as a magnitude 5, led to about 3,000 claims being made to the Seismological Commission.

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