Residents of Murapara in Bay of Plenty may have felt a jolt from a magnitude 3.8 quake in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
GNS Science says the quake at 1.20am was centred 35 kilometres east of Murupara at a depth of eight kilometres.
There was also 3.7 magnitude quake 15 kilometres south of Seddon just before midnight. The quake was at a depth of 19 kilometres.