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Topic

Earthquake Intensity Perception

8 items · 6 aliases · peaked week of 12 Jul 2026 · first seen 18 Jul 2026

Earthquake intensity perception refers to how individuals experience, report, and classify the severity of seismic ground shaking, distinguishing between objective magnitude and subjective felt intensity.

The stories behind this signal

across press, releases & commentary · links open at the source
News ‘My bed started shaking’: Magnitude 4.9 quake gives lower North Island an early wakeup call Stuff · 4 SepRead ↗ News Lower North Island earthquake: Magnitude 4.9 quake strikes northwest of Paraparaumu NZ Herald · 4 SepRead ↗ News Aftershocks from earthquakes near Milford Sound could last for days - seismologist RNZ · 2 SepRead ↗ News Earthquakes hit near Milford Sound RNZ · 2 SepRead ↗

Sample framings

Up to 12 framings across outlets and orientations — each a short phrase the extractor generated to characterise the piece's editorial angle (not a quote). Filter by lean to see how each bloc is spinning the story; click through to read the original.

spinoff Centre-left

personal accounts of strong shaking

‘It felt like a truck’: Earthquake near Te Anau triggers brief tsunami scare
16 Jul

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

Alias drift

How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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In the press Methodology →

How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 7 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

12-week press volume 7 articles
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