[Tanya]

http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/quakes/2802756g.html

Tanya

[BaldyBeardyBloke]

Just watching them talk about it on the news.

40 Km north of Hamner Springs was the epicentre, apparently. 5.6 on richter scale, but nobody hurt and nothing broken

[DMcG]

Focal depth was 70km - pretty deep. It's the shallow ones that tend to cause more surface movement.

Dougie

[veronica]

not a thing, or even hear a rattle

[martin&maria]

i did but thought it was just my imagination until my neighbour called to say she had felt it to around i think 8.15amish.

[Smiler]

We felt it up here :uhoh eeekkkkkkk in Wangers

It was a tiny shake for us though (or maybe I'm getting better at recognising them?)

[Moorf]

That explains it - I was woken by the dogs - all 70kg of them - launching themselves on to the bed. I thought it was Woz leaving for work but he'd left half an hour before.... they must have felt it, I didn't! I've always said I could sleep through an earthquake - now I know it's true :D

[mossum]

LOL - I was in bed too ....


but it did wake me - i'm such a geek i reported on the- felt it - section of geonet - there are approx 1300 other geeks too, so i dont feel too bad :D

vic

[Tia Maria]

This is all starting to feel like the start of one of those disaster movies, you know where some scientist is running about warning everyone about 'the big one', but the politicians won't listen.

Then Mount Ruapehu has a 'burp' and skiers ignore advice and go up and ski anyway. By this point in the movie you know its going to end badly. :uhoh

Then a quake out at sea and everyone dismisses it as 'everyday' but the second quake on the south island starts to make people sit up and listen but then they all start doing the wrong thing like heading for higher ground when its safer underground, or refusing to leave their homes even though its right on the coast where a Tsunami could hit.

I just hope I'm the plucky heroine who manages to survive despite the odds due to her clever ingenuity and quick thinking. However, as I've not even managed to sort out my emergency kit or even have a sleeping bag its probably unlikely. :(

By the way would mobile phones work if something major did happen? Also where is the safest place to shelter in a villa - is it a door frame? Any other tips!?

Cheers

Tia

[off2nz]

I felt it here just outside of Nelson! Freaked me out I must admit as the only other one I felt (in Auckland) was just like a door slamming! Here, we live right out in the boonies on top of a hill and first of all I thought it was a huge truck coming up our very windy hilly track and then realised the house was shaking with glasses rattling and bottles (wine I might add!) on top of the fridge were swaying! The dog and I looked at each other like 'what the hell was that?'!!! All okay though even though I do keep imagining I can feel other ones! Lol.

Vic, I'm one of the other geeks!!!

[Moorf]

This is all starting to feel like the start of one of those disaster movies, you know where some scientist is running about warning everyone about 'the big one', but the politicians won't listen.

We were having that very conversation at the weekend!! Seriously, I think I'm the mad woman who lives alone with her dogs and who has predicted the end of the world but no-one is listening.... now that the quakes have started they're all flocking to my haven in the boonies to start life again and, best of all, Kiefer Sutherland is playing the lead alongside me :)

But really, the weather, the quakes, the occasional volcanic burp, either I'm super-sensitive to that sort of news or there's been a rather large increase in activity...

Anyone booked their Virgin Galactic (http://www.virgingalactic.com/) flight yet? :exit

P.S - I just lost one of my nine-lives down the local gorge thanks to mother nature - that's another thread entirely.... :wah

[victoria]

I felt something whist sitting at the desk & thought it was just the celulite settling. My bottom felt wobbly for a bit & then the blinds on the windows swayed ever so slightly. Yep, but not as good as the one we had in Kent earlier this year.

[thezorbster]

Definitely felt it whilst sitting having breakfast and littl'un suddenly asked me why her feet were wobbling on the floor! She then asked me how they happened so had to explain that to a 4 yr old. Actually used one of her favourite Dr Seuss stories about the North Going Zax and the South Going Zax who meet but won't move out of each others way. Just told her the earth meets like the Zax do and has a bit of a push and a shove now and again. She seemed to understand that!

Then OH rang from his 12th floor apartment room in Welly to say it had just been swaying and had we felt it too! No where I'd rather have felt it!

[aberdian]

I love geology (being one myself, as well as being married to one - sad isn't it?). Quakes are just natures way of releasing a bit of tension, a bit like that glass of wine at the end of a stressful day here at Percy Towers. Nothing we can do about them, except a) not live in a tectonically active area or b) run around in circles screaming when a big one hits. At the moment I'm in category a, but we're soon to be category b.... :)

[Moorf]

There was another in the same Hanmer Springs spot this morning - same depth - not quite as big - we didn't feel anything here but it "could" explain the crash of two pot lids to the kitchen floor that were stacked upon each other in the wee hours - we were still waiting for the match at the time.....

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