So who else felt it !?!?
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Topic: So who else felt it !?!?
Posted By: jax
Subject: So who else felt it !?!?
Date Posted: 21 February 2007 at 9:40pm
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I cannot believe we just had an earthquake ! Silly but, my first thought was that my dishwasher had gone postal, and then that Roland must have snuck up on me and was shaking the lazyboy (was reclining in it to watch CSI)... but the cats went a bit loopy loo as well, then I got a txt from Paws.
I think I am going to start listening to DH about getting together that survival kit now.. Oh, and Auckland Airport is shut - that's going to be a hairy one ! Wouldn't want to be trying to get anywhere by plane in a hurry... ------------- Jacquie - Mama to Erin, 13.07.06 - Chief Cat Chaser & Marmite Sammie Eater 
Love many, trust few, harm none. ~Anon~ |
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Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 21 February 2007 at 9:44pm
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Oh yeah I'm going to do something about a survival kit too!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: SuziE
Date Posted: 21 February 2007 at 9:44pm
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The following earthquake has been recorded by GNS Science:
Reference number: 2699766/G Universal Time: 21 February 2007 at 08:00 NZ Daylight Time: Wednesday, 21 February 2007 at 9:00 pm Latitude, Longitude: 36.55°S, 175.02°E Location: 30 km east of Orewa Focal depth: 15 km Richter magnitude: 4.5 Web page: http://www.geonet.org.nz/2699766g.html apparently there was another one in the same place but 6ks deep and 3.7 richter ... fully shock our house ...it shock the plates off my mums wall ... hmmm .. wonder if there is a bigish wave coming ... ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: jax
Date Posted: 21 February 2007 at 9:45pm
 ------------- Jacquie - Mama to Erin, 13.07.06 - Chief Cat Chaser & Marmite Sammie Eater
Love many, trust few, harm none. ~Anon~ |
Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 21 February 2007 at 9:46pm
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Why is the airport shut? Maybe its a volcano! Never felt any when I lived in Auckland. Get lots here cos we're on a faultline. ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 21 February 2007 at 9:49pm
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OMG want a laugh - read my post in march thread re this...i seriously thought i was losing it....even searched house for an intruder etc...or thought i was falling asleep....
am soooo glad I was not the only one to feel it.... OMG!!!! just happy that baby brain didnt make me imagine an earthquake in auckland...LMAO!!!!
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Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 21 February 2007 at 10:09pm
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The airport is shut so they double check for any damage. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 21 February 2007 at 10:14pm
Wow that's funny, especially after reading Bombshell's post just a minute ago!  -------------  |
Posted By: lil_miss
Date Posted: 21 February 2007 at 10:22pm
| Felt it here in Manukau Heights too... Only the second one though - thought I was imagining it.. lol being home by myself spooked me - wondered if there was someone breaking in.. haha ! Biggest earthquake since 1970 apparently... |
Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 7:16am
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how scary. I hate earthquakes. I used to work on the 19th floor and the building was built to go with earthquakes so it would sway for ages after one and you could see the partician walls moving.
There seem to have been quite a few earthquakes lately....hmmm not we're not gearing up for a big massive one! What are you suppose to put into a survival kit? |
Posted By: Sarah Beth
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 7:20am
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I had just turned off the tv and was trying to go to sleep, got such a fright I burst into tears!
As for survival kit, the civil defence website will have info on it, but water, canned food (and can opener), torch, transistor radio (that is all I can remember off the top of my head), think it is also in the back of the phone book too ------------- "> 
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 7:23am
| I'm use to earthquakes, we have them all the time, 4.5 ain't too bad. |
Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 7:33am
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Well I slept through the last one at 11.23...anyone feel it? It was 3.8 and I hear it was only a quick rattle. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 7:43am
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i only felt the second one...that was plenty for me thankyou!!!! I actually told DH when he got home that i didnt want to go into labour in an earthquake....UGH!!!
not fair i live in auckland so we dont get stuff like this!!! Lilmiss - we live in a line from you in botany and probably felt the same one....glad someone else thought it was an intruder...i had balcony ranchslider open and thougth someone had climbed up - silly as that sounds if you saw how high we are
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Posted By: KH25
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 8:10am
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Am I the only one who didn't feel anything ------------- Kelly, mum to DD, 19Jun06 (26wks 1lb15oz) DS1, 24Oct10 (32wks 4lb11oz) and DS2, 31Dec11 (32wks, 4lb11) http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 8:15am
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Nope you're not Kelly! Bil rang up all excited asking if we felt it and I didn't know what he was on about!
------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 8:23am
| small earthquakes let off "pressure"{ so the big one doesn't come. they are good! |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 9:18am
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i felt something at 11.23pm but i think its a crack up i kept hassling mum and dad saying its funny how Wellington has them all the time and its hardly ever on the news and Auckland has a couple and its "Breaking News"
Just really cracks me up. My first incident with an earthquake in wellington i was 11 floors up and we were on reclaimed land, heard the bang and the building shook people were screaming and the fish tank water was going everywhere. We were crouched under our desks. That was a 4.7 lol |
Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 9:39am
LIL MISS you did? I work at Takanini and felt nothing!! Weird!
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Posted By: Sarah Beth
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 9:42am
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I guess Jess it is news because we don't get them. When a big one hit Wellington I am sure it will be on the news. Also earthquakes in Auckland would usually be associated with volcanic activity (luckily in this case it wasn't), so best to put peoples minds at ease by having it on the news. ------------- ">
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Posted By: mum2emj
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 9:44am
| 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. |
Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 9:58am
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Just realised that it was in the evening...HE HE HA HA ...I felt nothing in Manurewa! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Lulu
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 10:05am
Wow 30km east of Orewa - you would have thought I would feel something in Whangaparaoa, but thankfully I didn't  ------------- Lou http://www.babysfirstsite.com"> 
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 10:23am
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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. Earthquakes suck first one that we experienced in wellington after ella was scary coz i was sitting near a bookcase holding her i was petrified!! |
Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 7:27pm
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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
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 7:36pm
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Have to say Thank God I wasn't in Auckland for the quakes - can't say I cope well with such things! ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Sarah Beth
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 8:44am
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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Jezsika wrote:Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 8:47am
thats the thing - we dont have them - which is why we get so freaked out!!! im still grateful that i wasnt losing it!!! LOL!!!! |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 9:46am
Yep that is what i meant that is what my friend said. |
Posted By: Sarah Beth
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 9:57am
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I really just meant Rangi is dead as well.
OPh the joys of being part of the pacific ring of fire (guess who has studied geography/geology!) ------------- ">
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Posted By: jdjzmum
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 2:53pm
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Wosses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not enuf to do any damage, when ur from Welly, you get used to them |
Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 2:56pm
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I thought Rangi was only dormant.... ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Sarah Beth
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 3:27pm
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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 ------------- ">
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 7:24pm
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Surprisingly, Dannevirke has had 2 of the biggest earthquakes in the last 20 years or so! They were both around 7 on richter scale I think. One of the faultlines runs parallel to here so we often get biggish ones. Both of those tho I was at primary school so its been quite a while since we've had a big one. ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |