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Old Aug 21st 2003, 8:44 pm
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well last night we had an earthquake here in NZ and its the first proper one since we came here 16 months ago!Its took stuff off the shelves and made a bit of a disturbance through Queenstown,but nothing serious.It was even felt in Christchurch so the local news said.Weird experience,Ms Deedee said it was like been on a bumpy road while stood still
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Blimey... scarey.

We once experienced a tremour one night when we were living out in Spain. A shaking and a rattling.
It must be really frightening in a full blown earthquake.

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Really glad you are O.K. Deedee!! Must be a pretty hairy experience and one of the few disadvantages I can see in NZ, over home! Does anyone know how frequent they happen around Christchurch and do they have such a thing as a regular 'Big One'!!

Hopefully it shook a few of the rats out of the walls for you Deedee!!
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I lived in Auckland for 7 years and never felt an earthquake. NZ has earthquakes on a daily basis but most are insignifficant only the monitors can measure them.

Her is a list of last Major Earthquakes

Don't let earthquakes put you off they are a minor problem. Cannot remember last time someone was killed by an earthquake in NZ. You stand a bigger chance being injured on the road by a significant factor.
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Old Aug 22nd 2003, 1:07 am
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must have been a fairly big one this as it was 7.1 on the scale and most folks i have talked to in town today(big trip out to town today ) said it was the biggest they had ever felt in 40 years.It shut Gores power off too i heard!
The mainquake was at 12:15 nz time but that one i did'nt feel as i was in the truck and the roads are so bumpy i would'nt have felt anything unless the ground fell through but the aftershock was at 02:00 and that was a real wobbler!!!:scared:
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Old Aug 22nd 2003, 6:17 am
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Originally posted by deedee
Ms Deedee said it was like been on a bumpy road while stood still
As a veteran of dozens of Tokyo tremors (all relatively minor, thankfully), I'd have to say that's the best description I've heard! Is Ms Deedee a poet by any chance? I'll remember that and use it next time we get one here. Haven't felt anything for a couple of weeks so we must be due a little one soon...

The biggest one I've felt was in May I think. At work on the 7th floor, the weirdest thing was looking out of the window and seeing the office blocks opposite gently swaying backwards and forwards.

Cheers,
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Old Aug 22nd 2003, 6:56 am
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just seen pictures on the news from fiordland where the centre of the quake was....:scared: :scared: :scared:

It looks like huge chunks of the mountains have fallen into the sea,BIG land slides the size of a small village.In central otago theres a town called Clyde,under a huge resovoir,and thats directly on one of the 300 fault lines that criss cross NZ.If part of the mountains round there had fallen into the lake i really do think Clyde would be wiped off the map and the lake Wakatipu would be a few metres deeper.
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