If you have felt an earthquake recently, we would like to know where you were and what happened. This information will help us understand how your area might respond in future earthquakes.

Your input will be used to make maps of how the intensity of shaking was distributed over the area which felt the earthquake. The questionnaire should only take a few minutes to complete:

• View the page of recent quakes to see if the event is listed there; if so, click on that reference number (or location map) to bring up the earthquake details. There will be a link to GeoNet Felt Earthquake Report which will take you to the questionnaire and add your report to the list for that event.

• If the event is not listed in Recent quakes, please make an unlisted GeoNet Felt Earthquake Report. You will need to make a reasonable estimate of the date and time of the event. Sometimes earthquakes occur where the shaking was too slight to alert our duty team, or it is possible that you have experienced something that was not an earthquake. If you report an event and we are able to establish its location, we may add it to the Recent quakes list.

It can take between fifteen minutes and one hour after a significant earthquake for the location and magnitude to be reviewed and the event to be listed on this web site. During this time, it will be necessary to make an unlisted report.

Last modified: 2005 Jun 01.

A collapsed chimney after the Edgecumbe earthquake, March 1987.