# Earthquakes you would have felt here

Every quake near enough and big enough to have been felt in Christchurch, from GeoNet.

The filter is the whole story. GeoNet publishes an MMI for every quake, but that is the intensity at the epicentre, a magnitude-2 rockfall under Arthur’s Pass scores the same 3 as something that rattled Riccarton, so filtering on it fills the page with quakes nobody here felt. This asks a different question: would you have felt it, in this city? Magnitude falls off fast with distance, so the test is distance-aware, 2.5 within 40 km, 3.5 out to 100, 4.5 as far as Kaikōura and the Alps. Those bands match what GeoNet’s own felt-reports show for Canterbury. This page reaches back ninety days, which the front page cannot: GeoNet’s live endpoint covers about two days, so a page called “earthquakes you would have felt here” built on it alone is empty on most days of the year. It is joined to quakesearch, which has the whole record, the live rows win where the two overlap, because they are the ones that carry GeoNet’s own place name. Older rows get a direction computed from the coordinates rather than a town, because an epicentre thirty kilometres out is not *in* anywhere, and naming the nearest settlement would put a quake in a place it was not.

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## In force / coming up

- [Heavy Rain Watch](https://alerts.metservice.com/cap/alert?id=2.49.0.0.554.0.severeweather.nz.20261012202725099.1), Ranges of Westland and Grey Districts north of Mount Cook, also Canterbury High Country within 15 kilometres of the Main Divide, Periods of heavy rain, and amounts may approach warning criteria. Chance of upgrading to a Warning: Moderate., 13 Oct 2026
- [Heavy Rain Warning - Orange](https://alerts.metservice.com/cap/alert?id=2.49.0.0.554.0.severeweather.nz.20261012202725099.4), Buller, Expect 80 to 110 mm of rain, mainly about the ranges. Peak rates of 15 to 25 mm/h expected during Wednesday morning and afternoon. Impact: Streams and rivers may rise rapidly. Surface flooding, slips, and difficult driving conditions possible. Chance of upgrading to a Red Warning: Minimal., 14 Oct 2026

## Recent

- **Magnitude 2.6 earthquake**, North-west of the city, 22 km deep · 22 km from the city, 1 Sept 2026

## Questions, answered briefly

**What does this page list?**

Every quake near enough and big enough to have been felt in Christchurch, from GeoNet.

**Where does this feed come from?**

[GeoNet](https://www.geonet.org.nz/): read live, newest first.

**How fresh is it?**

The stream re-asks the source every minute while the page is open; the rows a crawler reads are the last bake, refreshed daily.

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HTML: https://www.chch.live/quakes
Source: [GeoNet](https://www.geonet.org.nz/)
Feed: https://www.chch.live/api/happening?kinds=quake