New Zealand earthquake: Animation shows the size of the shake

Tuesday, 30 October 2018

In New Zealand, there are dozens of minor earthquakes every day.

The animation above shows all 418 earthquakes registered by Geonet in the past week.

The big red bubble at the end is Tuesday afternoon's magnitude-6.2 earthquake centred 25km south of Taumarunui.

The size of the bubbles signify their magnitude – the bigger the bubble, the greater the magnitude.

Many of the quakes shown here were too small to be felt by anyone, but were still picked up Geonet.

A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck near Taumarunui on Tuesday afternoon.

* New Zealand quake hits North and South Island

* What you need to know about Tuesday's earthquake

* Animation shows size of NZ earthquake

* Why Taumarunui dodged the earthquake only 25km away

* In pictures and video: NZ's earthquake

* Large aftershocks less likely due to quake depth

* The moment Parliament was hit by the earthquake

* Prince Harry, Meghan Markle unaffected by quake

* Zoo animals barely bat an eyelid during quake**

During this period there was a total of 25 earthquakes of magnitude three or above, including two magnitude fours, a magnitude five and the Taumarunui 6.2.