So who else felt it !?!?

wow! i didnt even know that auckland ever really had earhquakes much- must be a rare thing. and you had 3!!!! wo!!! hehe i love earthquakes, just the excitment though, but boy my adrenaline runs strong and i totally freak out thinking this is it!!! this is the BIG one! lol, i stay under door frames for ages shaking (me not the house!!!). there havent been many felt down here in nelson for a while. the last one i felt was the day before i had kayla and it was a beauty! i was nearly wetting me pants! lol. must get that survival kit sorted though aye? you never know when an event may happen.

Wow 30km east of Orewa - you would have thought I would feel something in Whangaparaoa, but thankfully I didn't

We are in Onehunga and didn't feel a thing. Our cockatiel went a little spastic, but that's normal.. When I got the text from my sister, I just thought she'd had to much to drink

Jezsika wrote: I wonder if it has anything to do with the volcanoes in auckland? I have spoken to a friend who works for geonet awhile ago and she said that all the volcanoes around auckland apart from rangitoto are dead. Due to plates moving alot most of them are under the volcanoes which means for them to erupt there would have to be new ones made.

Auckland is basically one giant volcano and while the existing volcanos are considered extinct a new one will blow again. The pressure will build up and eventually a new one will form. Incidently this has been predicted to be around the Orewa coast. Before that happens though there will be a number of small earthquakes most that we wont even feel. There are plenty of seismometers set up to detect this so there would be warning prior to an eruption.

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Sarah Beth wrote: Jezsika wrote: I wonder if it has anything to do with the volcanoes in auckland? I have spoken to a friend who works for geonet awhile ago and she said that all the volcanoes around auckland apart from rangitoto are dead. Due to plates moving alot most of them are under the volcanoes which means for them to erupt there would have to be new ones made. Auckland is basically one giant volcano and while the existing volcanos are considered extinct a new one will blow again. The pressure will build up and eventually a new one will form. Incidently this has been predicted to be around the Orewa coast. Before that happens though there will be a number of small earthquakes most that we wont even feel. There are plenty of seismometers set up to detect this so there would be warning prior to an eruption.

Yep that is what i meant that is what my friend said.

Wosses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not enuf to do any damage, when ur from Welly, you get used to them

nope, geologists don't believe that another eruption will occur from there or any of the other cones. Rangi is the youngest of them all though at 600 odd years in case you are interested