More than 50 quakes have struck in roughly the same area as the 5.4 magnitude quake off the coast of Wairoa last week. Image / Geonet
More than 60 earthquakes have been recorded in the Wairoa District in an ongoing but mainly unnoticeable swarm since the 5.4 shake last week.
Most of them are regarded by national agency GNS as unnoticeable, but almost all have been in the same immediate area about 30km east of Wairoa
where the 6.16pm Tuesday shake was recorded, which locals calculate to be beneath Long Point, Mahia Peninsula.
EQC deputy chief executive readiness and recovery Renee Walker said on Monday it had received eight claims for damage relating to that quake, six involving buildings and two for contents only.
Strong enough to be felt over a wide area, including Napier and Hastings, it was the first in the cluster, followed by two more over magnitude 4 later that night, and two more of similar magnitude about 24 hours later.
There were 11 others over magnitude 3 by midnight on Friday, but the series continued with more than 40 shakes mainly under magnitude 3, and unlikely to have been felt during the weekend and on Monday morning.
