Newsflash...Earthquake in Wellington!!

[LB]

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Jeez!! We just had an earthquake!! I'd just logged on (yeah, I know it's only just after 2am but I couldn't sleep) and I heard it coming then the china cabinet rattled.......
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[John]

Ohh freaky.... sounds like fun hope you checked your bikes cant have them shaking apart can we ;)

[Mooch]

Thats one thing I don't miss being out of Wellington , bloody earthquakes !. :cold:

[Bob]

Mooch,

Don't go up to Birmingham... they had a TORNADO there!

What is going on with the weather?

Btw, we do get earthquakes in the UK, just very small ones... normally. There was one in Stoke-On-Trent a few years back large enough to make the news. But we've not had a real biggie for over a hundred years - I think it was in Colchester in the 18-somethings and caused £100,000 of damage. Inflate that up to today's prices and it was a big bugger...

http://www.catuk.org/articles/earthquake.html

[Mooch]

Mooch,

Don't go up to Birmingham... they had a TORNADO there!

What is going on with the weather?

Btw, we do get earthquakes in the UK, just very small ones... normally. There was one in Stoke-On-Trent a few years back large enough to make the news. But we've not had a real biggie for over a hundred years - I think it was in Colchester in the 18-somethings and caused £100,000 of damage. Inflate that up to today's prices and it was a big bugger...

http://www.catuk.org/articles/earthquake.html

Thinking of working in Leeds , apart from terrorist cells , anything else I should look out for ??. Don't mind the Tube / Trains / just hate earthquakes.
Wellington is overdue for a big one , Check out this link for the last major one.
http://www.gw.govt.nz/section71.cfm
http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Childrens/NZDisasters/EQWellington1855.asp

[Dafe]

Ohh freaky.... sounds like fun hope you checked your bikes cant have them shaking apart can we ;)
Shake apart? Nah, Won't happen! Linda doesn't have any Harleys.......

[What?]

You're too sensitive Lynda. When I lived in Maungaraki (79) the place never stopped shaking, but I was so used to it that the only way I knew there had been a tremor was the glass rattling in the china cabinet.

[merv]

I heard things rattle over our way but couldn't feel it, but I wasn't up on KB like LB was.

[riffer]

earthquake, schmearthquake,

I stopped noticing them years ago.

Guess that happens to you when you live right on top of the faultline. :whistle:

[mangell6]

Oh so the earth moved, it was a mere 3.5

http://www.geonet.org.nz/x2441987g_l.html

[Str8 Jacket]

For the (almost) 3 years that ive lived in Wellys I swear that ive only felt one of the many earthquake's - and that was only because I was on the 9th floor of my office. Is it my imagination or do most earthquakes here seem to happen during the night?!

[Flyingpony]

When you're awake at night, you can hear the earthquake coming.
It's sounds like a freight train approaching and then suddenly it's silent.
Even the birds stop singing (assuming they were). Like nature is waiting holding it's breath.

1 second, 2 second and bingo, the place starts shaking.

Interesting though, never hear the earthquake rubble disappear into the distance. Only hear it approaching. Maybe the rattling of everything means you don't hear it or your mind is preoccupied with its instinctive fight or flight procedures?

Each time I hear one, there's a battle in my mind. Should I leap out of bed when the rumblings are heard, start yelling "EARTHQUAKE" and run to the nearest door, or just lie there because so far they've all been small ones.

The rumbling sound can be heard some 5-10 seconds before it strikes.

[Sparky Bills]

I didnt feel a thing.

[bugjuice]

I felt an earthquake once.. this real big fat chick jumped on the bed next to me...

[Sparky Bills]

I felt an earthquake once.. this real big fat chick jumped on the bed next to me...


Was it the bed next to you or in bed WITH you??? :whistle:

[Eurygnomes]

This is something that's interested me for ages. I dont' think that they mostly happen at night Str8, but that seems to be when our alpha-waves are sufficiently peaceful (ie. not being bombarded with other stuff) to notice a disturbance in teh force, so we wake up, feel the earthquake, and then can go back to sleep (or check on the bikes in the gargre - whichever!).

Statistically speaking - they shouldn't happen more frequently during night or day...the plates aren't contracting/expanding in the sun like railway lines...

[Odin]

I'd like to feel an earthquake. I know it might be a stupid thing but people have so many diffent stories and feelings about quakes and i think it would be accilirating

[Eurygnomes]

Well...it's accelerating that's for sure! :) Seriously though, we had a 'bigish' one down here not so long ago - at about 8.03am one fine wednesday morning (maybe wed, maybe not) while I was in the bus stop. It was a very long 'rolling' one...very exhilarating!! :)

Except the trains weren't running on time because of it. :(

[Lou Girardin]

I felt an earthquake once.. this real big fat chick jumped on the bed next to me...
You're mistaken. That was feeling the earth move.

[Str8 Jacket]

Seriously though, we had a 'bigish' one down here not so long ago - at about 8.03am one fine wednesday morning (maybe wed, maybe not) while I was in the bus stop. It was a very long 'rolling' one...very exhilerating!! :)

Except the trains weren't running on time because of it. :(

That was the (only) one I actually felt!! It was quite funny cause when it had finished half the office were under their desks, some lying flat on the floor and a few under door frames. And forgive me if this is too much info - but the funniest thing was when my boss came back onto the office looking veeery pale, he admited that he had literally been sitting on the loo and thought he was gonna die sitting there with his pants down!! :rofl: We still give him crap for that!

[Odin]

...very exhilerating!! :)

Glad someone on this site can show me how to spell :o

[kerryg]

Glad someone on this site can show me how to spell :o


Actually...ahem...it's EXHILARATING :whistle:

[Odin]

where is hitch when you need him :not:

[zadok]

When I lived in Turangi we got a fair few. We had swarms of them once and the Town emptied out of women. Only the workers were left behind. I find them quite awesome (exhilerating).

[F5 Dave]

China cabinets?

China cabinets!! :weird:

Youse guys are supposed to be hardened Bikers. What the blue blazes are you doing with freakin china cabinets?

Shesh! :argh:



. . . , but that seems to be when our alpha-waves are sufficiently peaceful (ie. not being bombarded with other stuff) to notice a disturbance in teh force,...

Oh please. Seems we’ll have to remove the rubber mounts & loosen the engine mounts on the GN, that’ll shake those pesky alpha waves outta ya.

[NordieBoy]

China cabinets?

China cabinets!! :weird:

Youse guys are supposed to be hardened Bikers. What the blue blazes are you doing with freakin china cabinets?

Shesh! :argh:

Where do you put your polished engine parts?

[F5 Dave]

erm, in the engine? :yes:

[NordieBoy]

When I lived in Turangi we got a fair few. We had swarms of them once and the Town emptied out of women. Only the workers were left behind. I find them quite awesome (exhilerating).

The workers?
The women?

[TonyB]

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Jeez!! We just had an earthquake!! I'd just logged on (yeah, I know it's only just after 2am but I couldn't sleep) and I heard it coming then the china cabinet rattled.......
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Baked beans for tea then was it?

[zadok]

The workers?
The women?
Neither, the earhtquakes. :whistle:

[LB]

China cabinets?

China cabinets!! :weird:


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To keep the dust off the bike models.

Seriously. Our china cabinet has currently got:
MV Agusta F4 (750)
Ducati 998S
2 x Ducati S4 Monsters
BMW R1100S (yellow)
BMW R1100S (red)
BMW F650
BMW K1200RS
BMW Boxer Cup
BMW R1150R
BMW R1100R
Plus a few glasses.

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[LB]

Even the birds stop singing (assuming they were). Like nature is waiting holding it's breath.

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Funny you should mention the birds Flyingpony.

We've got a morepork that lives somewhere very close. I always hear him when I'm in bed just before I go to sleep - some nights he's calling for about half an hour. Well, just after the earthquake the other morning, he started calling!
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