A second earthquake has struck Hawke's Bay.
At 8.25pm on Thursday, a quake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale hit, centred about 40 kilometres southeast of Waipukerau, close to where a 5.3 earthquake struck earlier in the afternoon.
The earthquakes were close to where another earthquake occurred on Tuesday morning.
The first earthquake startled residents in the coastal community of Porangahau.
