[Carol]

Just feel that earthquake a couple of minutes ago?

MAN! It gave my house a good shake!

It was one of those with a jolt at the start and then a good bit of shaking....

ooooh I HATE them!
:exit

[Carol]

THink it was right under my house!
http://www.geonet.org.nz/2692934g.html

[sarahw]

No didn't feel a thing!! Funny only just up the road!! I don't know why but we hardly feel any at this house - bloomin' good too since its a long way down the hillside at the back of the house!!

[jess]

Yes, I felt it up in Kapiti! But it was barely noticeable and only for a few seconds.

[barryp]

We felt it in my office. I find such earthquakes to be mildly comforting, having grown up and lived in various parts of California. Sometimes we need a little reminder of our place on Earth. (There is also a rational reason to like little quakes - more little quakes reduce the likelihood of a Big One.)

[Trigirl]

My first Wellington earthquake and I didn’t even feel it….

[pint of guinness]

yep i felt it here. it's the first one i've felt since we arrived, and i must say i did NOT like it. i thought someone had driven into my garage door. TWICE :uhoh

[wanderingoregonian]

it was mild where I was.. just felt like being swung in a swing. My boss paused mid sentence to say - hmm I think that's an earthquake, okay now where was i..." and the day continued. I hope they all are like that!

[Huttvalleypom]

Certainly felt it here in the Hutt Valley - a short of shuddering sensation for no more than 2 seconds. I was on the phone to my new boss (start new job next week) in Mayfair House in Wellington, so we experienced it simultaneously! Lasted longer at his end though - the office is on the tenth floor!

Russell

[sarahw]

Hubby felt it at the airport. I wouldn't care but it was centred off Porirua, where we live!! & I must have been the only person in the region that didn't feel it!!

[miep]

Sarah,

I think you must have been! I was in Whitby for work and it was kinda hard to miss. It was funny though because just as the first jolt came a big truck went by and everybody in the meeting looked up and someone said "Wow that must have been 1 big truck!" Then the shudders came and the truck was well gone and we all realised it wasn't the truck at all!

[jailhouse]

Hey peeps! Don't feel so bad. We have had a few here in the UK, yes, this is not a typo, but we have had a few over the past couple of years, especially in the Midlands area.

Glad to say, we didn't feel yours though:D

jh

[Big Puku]

THink it was right under my house!
http://www.geonet.org.nz/2692934g.html

Yeah I felt a little shudder in the CBD - enough to make my tea ripple anyway! Didn't realise there we any houses on that part of the Cook Strait though!

Matt

[Trigirl]

its funny isn't it - the last "big" one in the uk was 4.8 on the richter scale - it was the headline news on the BBC and thousands of people were ringing the emergency services.

here a 4.8 one happens and people look up and go - oh its an earthquake - and go back to work! it didn't even get a mention in the newspaper. just what you are used to i guess.

[Anita & Marco]

Hi Trigirl,

Just want to add that it WAS mentioned in the Dominion Post - but only in the sidelines.

Cheers,
Anita

[Trigirl]

oh - i looked for it and everything!

[KD17]

You mean we'd been in Welly a couple of days and there was a quake, we didn't feel a thing...

Maybe the earth was still moving for us coming from the UK :laugh :p


Keith & Debby