Originally Posted by Jan n Neil

Wasn't here last week, but I felt tonights big time out here in Mandeville, hubby says it was "big" at the port. I was already jet lagged from the Uk now I have no chance


PS our 4 dogs were totally unfazed and stayed asleep, as they have behaved throughout the last 9 months. Wierd, given everyone elses pet stories ........


Jan

Originally Posted by cleverchap

5.3 tonight. I wouldn't be able to cope with all these aftershocks, you guys must be tired of this by now

Originally Posted by Persephone

Yes

Originally Posted by Charismatic

Come on Persephone we never needed sleep anyway.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nsdj9NRzqC4

Originally Posted by Persephone

I'm thinking it'll take more than Rock 'n' Roll to build this city again...

Originally Posted by Persephone

Suspect we're going to be in for a lively night yet again. Strange that your dogs don't react, I keep hearing so many tales of how stressed people's animals are when I'm at work.
Maybe it's because they're from Britain- made of much sterner stuff

Originally Posted by Persephone

Hmmm 5.3, wonder if that will be upgraded. Location was 10km west of Akaroa, 12km deep. That's further from my house than the Lyttleton ones yet it felt much much bigger than the 6.3 here. Not much fell over last week, tonight a lot of [small] stuff has.
Seem to be getting rumbles every few minutes now

Originally Posted by Persephone

We don't feel all of them- hell I'd be a complete sleep deprived zombie by now! I don't feel anything under about 3.7 and it also depends on which faultline it comes from as to how apparent it is.

As to pets, I've found that most people say their pets do get anxious with the quakes, they tend to hide away or become more clingy. I've had to put some of them on anti anxiety medication as a temporary measure. We have had more dogs brought in after being found wandering the streets after running away and lots of people have reported that their cats ran off and went missing for a few days after the bigger quakes. We are really seeing the benefits to having animals microchipped down here-it is so easy to reunite them with their owners And after the NZVA and SPCA provided free microchips post Feb quake and the publicity associated with this we have got a lot more cats chipped, dogs are required to be chipped and registered anyway

Originally Posted by Jan n Neil

Wasn't here last week, but I felt tonights big time out here in Mandeville, hubby says it was "big" at the port. I was already jet lagged from the Uk now I have no chance


PS our 4 dogs were totally unfazed and stayed asleep, as they have behaved throughout the last 9 months. Wierd, given everyone elses pet stories ........


Jan

Originally Posted by Expat Kiwi

My partner knows people there who say it's like living on a ticking time bomb but commitments prevent them from leaving.

Originally Posted by Jan n Neil

I have wondered why..... I wonder if it's cos there's four of them, so they are a mini "pack" and they wait for the leader to be scared - i.e him and me. Dunno, but they actually slept through the Feb 6.3, when I was in the room with them

Jan

Originally Posted by Expat Kiwi

It was upgraded to a 5.4, and the epicentre revised to the Greendale fault in Halswell.

My partner knows people there who say it's like living on a ticking time bomb but commitments prevent them from leaving.