New Zealand Now Wellington shaken by quake.
Geonet originally graded the quake a 5.9, and it was followed by a 3.5-magnitude shake, then one of 3.6, then 3.7.
A witness felt strong shaking in Wellington, where all trains were suspended while engineers assessed the impact.
“Not what we need right now…” Finance Minister Grant Robertson said in a tweet.
New Zealand lies on the seismically active Ring of Fire, a 40,000km arc of volcanoes and ocean trenches girdling much of the Pacific Ocean.
The city of Christchurch is still recovering from a 6.3 magnitude quake in 2011 that killed 185 people.
In 2016, a 7.8 magnitude tremor hit the South Island town of Kaikoura, killing two and causing billions of dollars in damage, including in Wellington.
