Estimates from Geonet show a magnitude 5.7 quake centred near Levin caused strong shaking.

It's been felt widely across the Lower North Island, along with Hamilton and Blenheim.

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16 Jul: A man's in custody - after Police chased down a vehicle driving the wrong direction on Auckland's Southern Motorway last night

15 Jul: A motorcyclist's been taken to hospital with serious injuries - after colliding with a car in Hamilton just before 7:30 this evening

15 Jul: A man in his 80s is in hospital - after being trapped when his campervan blew over in Northland's Tauranga Bay camp ground

15 Jul: Assessments continue in Tasman, after the worst flooding in decades

15 Jul: A woman has died, two days after a two-vehicle crash on State Highway 1, south of Hampden in Otago, on Sunday afternoon

15 Jul: One person has died in a crash south of Palmerston North

15 Jul: The driver of a concrete truck was fatally run over by his own vehicle - which crashed into a house in Auckland's Remuera

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