Auckland earthquakes

Auckland rattled by earthquakes

TVNZ,

17 March, 2013

Auckland has been rattled by two earthquakes this afternoon.

The biggest, a magnitude 3.9 earthquake, struck at 4.05pm at a depth of 6km.

A magnitude 3.1 hit five minutes earlier and was 4km deep.

Both were centred under Motutapu Island, near Rangitoto Island, in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf.

Twitter has been flooded with responses to the shake, with people describing the shock of feeling an earthquake in Auckland.

Ellie-May Seymour tweeted: "Ok just had a heart attack. There was an earthquake in Auckland."

Lily De Felice said: "Woah earthquake my bed just moved halfway across my bedroom floor."

Some superficial damage has been reported