Boopy

http://tv3.co.nz/News/NationalNews/t...rticleID=35838

Check this out. Earthquake today in NZ - south of the southern tip, 7.3 - 7.4 with tsunami warnings.

Did anyone feel it in the deep south!

P2L

Lots of people apparently
http://magma.geonet.org.nz/maps/app?...s&sp=S2801125g

ned

It's nice of you to get them out of the way before I arrive

brussels_sprout

The epicentre was not on the South Island, but on a distant, NZ administered, island nearly 500 km south of South island, but 7.3 is very big !

garryhg

hi jacky g here......nobody told me about earthquakes before we came over....kids came back from school first week and said they had a fire drill and earthquake drill,then 6 year old proceeded to get under the living room table and hold on to the leg....and said this is what you have to do in an earthquake

well you can imagine my facefreaks you out thinking about it,but happens back home now..but 7.3 no thanks

Boopy

Ned, The Bay of Plenty get them most days. Not here in Welly - we're just waiting for the big one!
Welly peeps don't seem bothered at all. When we have them, they just look at each other and carry on with work as if nothing has happened - they are so used to them here.

garryhg

garry said he would like to experience an earthquake to see whats its like...the mans a freak

Maz

Yep!

Depends on the size, location and depth. I've experienced a few here in Illinois, just tiny ones.

teambwr47

Me thinks the thread title is a touch over dramatic......

It was 440km's south west of invercargill apparently.

When i first read the post title i got worried that the South island had been badly affected with damage, casualties etc etc.

Fingers crossed a 7.4 or higher does not epicenter in the South island because there will be more than the 'gentle rocking motion for 6 seconds' described by the Herald i'd imagine........

Avid

He probably won't like it. I've experienced a couple of 5.5's in Japan and I can't say they were much fun.

It's all very well doing 'earthquake drills' but if people don't have any experience of an earthquake then they are more than likely to just stand around in a state of shock/bewilderment when a big one hits. By the time people have stopped saying 'What's that? Is it an earthquake?' The roof has already started to cave in


Then again...with 99% of NZ houses made out of planks, I suppose the death toll will be quite low if a big one hits...

garryhg

wow you should have been a therapistthats eased my mind so much

Boopy

He sounds like my son, he keeps missing them, usually out on the beer when we have them. In Taupo there's a Volcano Activity Centre, they have an earthquake simulator in there. I'm sure it was only 6.5 and that was really bumpy.

garryhg

we went on an earthquake simulator at motat,aparantly it was similiar to the one that hit hawkes bay years ago.....i think it was a big quake.....would be quite scary if you were in the house......jacky....actually it would be quite scary if you were anywhere

southerner

Missed it again - Mrs S was really worried by earthquakes before coming to NZ. So far she has slept through about four of them.

Boopy

We had one last year 5.2, it happened just after midnight I'd just gone to sleep & was woken by a clattering noise. It was real spooky, worse still we have a waterbed, & it seemed to take ages for it to settle down - just as well we don't get sea sick.