Geonet quake drums are showing that a magnitude 5.4 earthquake has rocked Gisborne and Tokomaru Bay this evening. Felt reports may be viewed here as they come in
Reference Number: 3485333
NZDT: Fri, Mar 25 2011 9:39 pm
Magnitude: 5.4
Depth: 60 km
Details: 10 km north-west of Tokomaru Bay
Its looking quite large on the charts and was widely detected
This is the chart for Urewera (URZ), Bay of Plenty, showing another quake a few minutes later



I was looking all over the place for news of this latest Gisborne quake and of course this is where I found it, but was initially blocked! That’s why I left a comment.
I just installed Kaspersky 2011, only to find that E2NZ is blocked as a “dangerous” site for its “violent” content (!). Now may I pick you up off the floor? Reporting on the well-hidden underbelly of the nation with the shiny halo gets you on a standard AV program’s restricted list?
E2 is one of the first places I visit for news and commentary on New Zealand, because the NZ press is so mealy-mouthed and debate so suppressed on the subject. Unvarnished and honest = “violent”? So to find it automatically blocked by system settings, and have to twiddle the controls to access it, made this loyal reader very unhappy!
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