eeeew earthquake!!!
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Topic: eeeew earthquake!!!
Posted By: mum2paris
Subject: eeeew earthquake!!!
Date Posted: 20 December 2007 at 9:00pm
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Did you palmy ladies just feel that???!!!
it went for ages. ew ew ew ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 20 December 2007 at 9:00pm
| ARRRRRR! I wanted to be first! You must have typed as it was happening. no fair! |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 20 December 2007 at 9:01pm
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no, if you look both our posts are at 9pm exactly.. i took of fint he middle of it to check the kids.
ick freaky thing ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: AnnC
Date Posted: 20 December 2007 at 9:05pm
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haha I posted as well ... hehe glad i wasn't imagining it. ------------- Ann 
Also Mum to Josh (15) and Brooke (10) |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 20 December 2007 at 9:06pm
| hehe that was a pretty sissy earthquake even if it did go for ages |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 20 December 2007 at 9:07pm
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yeah i do remember some big ones we had when we lived in our upstairs flat.. that was horrible cos you almost would hear it hit te bottom layer and be waiting for it to move up the building. It used to sway so much! ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: Millie1976
Date Posted: 20 December 2007 at 9:07pm
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We felt it in Wellington too pretty scary! ------------- Sebastien 2 years old Olivier 3 3/4 years old |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 20 December 2007 at 9:22pm
| mum just rang to check that we were okay. she was quite freaked out and didn't believe that thye safest room in the hosue is the loo. |
Posted By: Tiff
Date Posted: 20 December 2007 at 9:25pm
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We felt a wee earthquake down here in Chch at that time too!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: Peanut
Date Posted: 20 December 2007 at 9:26pm
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Felt in chch too - christmas tree was wobbling and DH didn't believe me until he looked at the tree. -------------  
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Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 20 December 2007 at 9:26pm
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we felt it here in blen... well, i did, hubby did not. ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 20 December 2007 at 9:56pm
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6.8 on richter scale, 40km south of Gisbonre.
I didnt feel anything here but then again I often miss them. 
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Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 20 December 2007 at 10:00pm
OMG we felt it too!! it was HUGE!!!! my mum said that it was the biggest shes felt since the huge edgecumbe earthquake in 87! it went on for close to a minute! and our pictures fell off the walls!, the hanging lights were hitting the roof cos they were swinging so hard!, my sisters big 52 inch tv fell over!! , DH and BIL were starting to feel sea sick!! gez!!! ...poor Bailey had got up to go to the toilet and he was finding it rather hard to aim! of course he didnt know what was going on!!
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 20 December 2007 at 10:20pm
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That was really really weird - esp probably because we are in the 2nd storey! I'm amazed people felt it so far and wide though Where on earth does 40km South of Gisborne end up btw? -------------  |
Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 20 December 2007 at 10:41pm
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Cant believe how far and wide that was felt. Pretty scarey and loud rumbling here too ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: porcelina
Date Posted: 21 December 2007 at 7:44am
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I hope everyone in Gisborne is okay! Looking at the damage on stuff.co.nz it certainly was bad -------------   
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Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 21 December 2007 at 9:14am
It wasnt funny or sissy here. Was extremely scary, and seemed to go on forever! We have cracks in our ceilings in several rooms, loo and hot water cylinder leaking, broken stuff in kitchen. Had no power for ages either. Awful. |
kebakat wrote:Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 21 December 2007 at 9:23am
| My comment wasn't meant to be mean or anything, from our home it felt like a normal shake that we have fairly regularly. And when I posted I didn't know that it was actually a big one far away. |
Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 21 December 2007 at 9:31am
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I know, sorry. Im still pretty freaked out by it all. We used to get tonnes of little ones in Whakatane too, but this was something else.
One lady that my mil knows died of a heart attack. Even the hospital lost power and the emergency generator failed, and had to evacuate patients from a ward cos the ceiling collapsed. Town is still cordoned off. |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 21 December 2007 at 10:23am
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I am so glad I was out in the car when it happened. I am sh!t scared of earthquakes I have panic attacks when I feel them (even the smallest ones). Kellz I sent Emma a txt to make sure you were ok once I heard it was in Gisborne. Hope you get things fixed soon. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 21 December 2007 at 10:30am
Hope you Gizzy ladies are all ok  We were out in the car then so didnt feel it. Teresa, I think 40k south of Gisborne, meant it was centred out at sea. We havent had a big one here since I was a kid, but last one we had here was pretty big, and those ones are very very freaky.------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 21 December 2007 at 2:36pm
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Yep it was out at sea.
Thanks Becks. It was about 1am our time when Emma txt from Oz, so I didnt get it till this morning! We were up til midnight tho, once the power was back on we cleaned up the broken glass and stuff to make it safe for Isla in the morning. |
Posted By: katie1
Date Posted: 21 December 2007 at 3:38pm
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Kellz, I have been thinking of you too. I just came on here to check if you were ok. It sounds pretty scary. I hate even the smallest ones so it must have been horrible.
Glad you guys are ok - even if your house didn't totally escape damage. |
Posted By: porcelina
Date Posted: 22 December 2007 at 9:51am
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I've only ever been in one decent one back in 1991 and it was at night so I was only half awake! And being 13 or so I thought it was kinda fun. I was sleeping on squabs so I couldn't get up as I was too close to the moving floor and it was later I learned that the windows beside me had only been nailed in so far not putty! (I do confess to liking the earthquake house at Te Papa).
But as for one in your house with all your belongings falling over and now having a baby to worry about it'd be a totally different kettle of fish! -------------
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Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 22 December 2007 at 7:19pm
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Had a 4.8 aftershock around lunchtime. Yuk! I wish they would stop! Had a look around town today, man there is some serious damage to a heap of shops.
On closer inspection, the plaster on the outside of our house in covered in decent cracks too, as well as a few in the ceilings inside. Plumber came today, and our hot water cylinder is stuffed. Carpet still wet from it too. |