[debnjohn]

Did anyone else feel the eathquake this morning, about 7:15am ?
I thought Debbie was shaking the bed !

http://www.geonet.org.nz/x2472534g_l.html

John

[veronica]

no, missed it, and nothing from the dogs either, what scale was it.

[JCM]

I was up and about but didn't feel anything. It was a 4.9 but quite far away = 100km.

[Tara Sage]

We missed it too, no reaction from the animals they were the ones that reacted to the last one. Was it a little one?

[Moorf]

I don't feel a thing before 7.30am :D

[Miffy]

I heard on the radio this morning it was meant to be a big (ish) up and around "5"

[Miffy]

oooooh just checked the Earthquake website ( http://www.geonet.org.nz/recent_quakes.html ) and it was 4.9

There was quite a few yesterday aswell!

[debnjohn]

We missed it too, no reaction from the animals they were the ones that reacted to the last one. Was it a little one?

We are staying in a 2nd floor apartment in the city. To me it felt like someone shook the bed a couple of times, bit like a heavy lorry driving past close by, only a much slower movement.
Debbie was walking aound the bedroom at the time, and she didn't feel it. I actually accused her of shaking the bed!

John.

[Avalon]

No, (obviously - not being naywhere near Christchurch), but we did have an ickle one on Wednesday, about 6 miles form here (bit too close for my likeing). I was having a lie-in too!

Are we likely to get a bout of them becasue of the Pakistan Earthquake does anyone know? We did seem to have lots at the beginning of the year.

John,

When we arrived we were staying in a 15th floor apartment. The building shook when the wind got up (which it does quite a bit in welly). Earthquakes were truly nauseating.

[Tanya]

The Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences locates about 10,000 to 15,000 earthquakes in New Zealand each year. Most are too small to be felt and we only know they occurred because they are recorded by seismographs. Each year New Zealand has about 100 to 150 quakes that are big enough to be felt.

Best start getting used to them!!

Tanya

[selchie]

Earthquakes can trigger aftershocks, and the biggies can reach further. Seismically speaking, the entire earth can resonate after a large quake like the one in Indonesia last December. So it is possible that the quakes you've recently felt in NZ are related to the Pakistan quake. Keep in mind that NZ is one of the most seismically active places in the world (#3 or 4). Fortunately most of them are wee baby quakes that most people won't feel.

[Jo and Andy]

just another thing for the family to worry at and make me think about!

Will have to go an check out Moorfs earthquake pack thread, not had time yet.

[Do B Brief]

I gotta say it, so the earth moved for you?

[Alex]

Are we likely to get a bout of them becasue of the Pakistan Earthquake does anyone know? We did seem to have lots at the beginning of the year.
Maybe, because Pakistan and NZ are on adjoining tectonic plates. The Pakistan quake, (and weren't there also a few quakes around Indonesia - Sumatra? - earlier on it the year) could well be all related to the tsuanami quake on boxing day. Apparently the earth wobbled on it axis that day by about an inch! Scary stuff. So if the Indian plate shifts, then everything that touches that plate will have to compensate - i.e. cause earthquakes, erupt volcanos etc. I didn't realise until recently that NZ actually sat over a plate boundary, similar to the San Andreas fault. However, whilst California will eventually detach itself from the mainland and travel north, NZ (South Island) will become squashed together and smaller and move south. Buuuuut this will all take another 4 million years, so we don't need to worry about that! :cheers

[selchie]

Actually, only a small portion of California is on the Pacific Plate. Most is on the North American Plate, just like New Hampshire. Too bad the quakes don't scare off more people, though.