Newsflash...Earthquake in Wellington!!

LB · 5th August 2005, 02:11

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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** · 5th August 2005, 02:17

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

**Mooch** · 5th August 2005, 02:50

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

**Bob** · 5th August 2005, 03:44

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** · 5th August 2005, 03:52

Originally Posted by 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

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/C...ington1855.asp

**Dafe** · 5th August 2005, 05:57

Originally Posted by John

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?** · 5th August 2005, 06:18

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** · 5th August 2005, 07:53

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

**riffer** · 5th August 2005, 08:00

earthquake, schmearthquake,

I stopped noticing them years ago.

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

**mangell6** · 5th August 2005, 08:09

Oh so the earth moved, it was a mere 3.5

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

**Str8 Jacket** · 5th August 2005, 08:29

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** · 5th August 2005, 08:54

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.