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    A seismologist says the shallow depth of last night's Paraparaumu earthquake is part of the reason it was so widely felt

    A seismologist says the shallow depth of last night's Paraparaumu earthquake is part of the reason it was so widely felt



    26-thousand people reported feeling the magnitude 5.4 quake - a record number for the GeoNet agency.

    That surpasses the number of reports for the 2016 Kaikoura quake, by more than 10-thousand.

    It struck 45 km northwest of Paraparaumu at quarter to midnight and was 67 kilometres deep.

    Murien Naguit from GNS Science says there are a lot of factors that come into it and depth is one of them.

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