This house is shaking
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Topic: This house is shaking
Posted By: caliandjack
Subject: This house is shaking
Date Posted: 25 August 2007 at 1:56pm
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Just a wee shake gone through the house, I'm not from here so still find feeling earthquakes fascinating.
How do your babies/children react? ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 25 August 2007 at 1:59pm
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Both of mine are asleep so tht a good thing. I hate them and went running into DH. I'm waiting to see how big it was and where it was centred (there is a good website that has the info 15 minutes after a quake). ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 25 August 2007 at 2:07pm
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It was a good one, these are the details of it. NZST: Sat, Aug 25 2007 1:43 pm
Magnitude: 5.1
Depth: 50 km
Details: http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/quakes/2784930g.html - 40 km west of Foxton ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: EllenMumof2
Date Posted: 25 August 2007 at 2:17pm
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I felt it to and yelled out to DP and he came in and said i thought it was just wind -------------  
 
Kalem 6! |
Posted By: MelandBri
Date Posted: 25 August 2007 at 3:10pm
| ooh I hate earthquakes. Luckily we don't seem to feel too many way down here in the South. |
Posted By: luna
Date Posted: 25 August 2007 at 3:59pm
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I was at lunch with a friend and my mum. I've grown used to not having earthquakes living up in Hamilton, so I thought someone was just pushing past my chair, until my friend said about an earthquake.
wasn't til we were home that my dad said about it and said it was just over 5. ------------- Selina http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 25 August 2007 at 4:12pm
| I felt it. I thought it was very sissy actually. MIL was here, she didn't like it though lol. DH and his dad didn't feel it at all. |
Posted By: nictoddie
Date Posted: 25 August 2007 at 4:58pm
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was in town did not feel a thing! ------------- 
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Posted By: Lisha
Date Posted: 25 August 2007 at 5:16pm
When I used to live back in Palmy, earthquakes were always going on... I remember looking out the back of the house and the clothes line was bending like a noodle, also living in marton on the farm, it's funny how you get used to them, not any down here in Christchurch!  ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 25 August 2007 at 5:49pm
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DP grew up in Lower Hutt, he's used to them.
I still find them exciting. Feel them less in Feilding than when we were living in Bulls. First time I felt one felt like a truck hitting the side of the house - the rocking couch kinda gave it away.  ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: Freesia
Date Posted: 25 August 2007 at 5:53pm
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I used to live in the central north island and we used to have them all the time so I got quite used to them. I've lived in Auckland for 9 years now and haven't felt a single one and I really miss it. -------------  
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Posted By: Bubbaloo
Date Posted: 25 August 2007 at 8:47pm
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You do get them down here but not very often I remember when I was in my first one I just thought someone was shaking my bed trying to wake me up realised it was an earthquake when my wardrobe doors started opening and closing. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  Was danni-chick Mum to James My Angel 28/07/08 |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 25 August 2007 at 9:12pm
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I've had that experience too Danni (the waking up shaking thing, not the wardrobe doors bit). I wasn't sure if I had felt something today cause I was moving. It was my DH who felt it - kinda like kebakat but in reverse lol -------------  |