The earthquake woke me at 4:35am in my home at Kapiti, north of Wellington and a long way from the epicentre. It was strong enough for me to get up to be ready to get the kids should a stronger shake occur.
From a glance at the news item, it seems fortunate the quake happened at night, because if people had been at work and in the streets, I suspect there would have been deaths and injuries. So far, I haven't heard of any. Let's hope the mainlanders get through with their lives.
South Island Rocked by 7.0 quake
State of emergency - and quake revised to 7.1
I was quite worried until I heard aid is on the way from Haiti, Pakistan and China.
ReplyDeleteWe're only 30km from the epicentre, felt like the house shifted a good metre, but no damage and nothing broken. water out until midday, power out until 5:30pm.
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ReplyDeleteGood to hear from you. Glad you're ok.
the boy quite enjoyed it... wants another tonight. Wasn't scary as nothing broke, just felt like the general area shifted to the SW by about a metre. prefer not to have a repeat.
ReplyDelete"the boy"? Do you have a child?
ReplyDeleteLRO, agree. I suspect the foreign aid will be whatever the North Island can scrape up.
ReplyDeleteWent out and worked on my fence today. No sign of any structural damage following the quake.
Will have to place a brass plaque on it saying "Survived 7.1".
Lucia, yes, he's almost five and thought the whole thing was very amusing. As Fred Dagg said: we don't know how lucky we are
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