EsuriJohn

No but others did. It was very deep.

lemon_drizzle

It seems a little silly to suggest moving from the shaky isles of NZ to mainland Europe is out of the frying pan and into the fire!

We have had two earthquakes of 4.5 and 4.7 in the last month here (north island) and thats hardly considered to be worthy of mentioning, especially in light of the south island!. Earthquakes in NZ are a real concern. Although even then statistically not a massive thing to worry about.

They have recently painted lines on the road to denote tsunami safe zones and we were sent a leaflet about earthquake proofing the inside of our home. These things probably do more to freak people out than help them.

Ellie60

Hi I am new to the forum world, so bear with me.
At the moment my family live in Christchurch, New Zealand and as another member has said, we are fed up with the 8200 shakes and tremors. We are originally from the UK and wonder if we can move straight to Spain, or do we need to return to UK to get the health certs etc.
Any advise greatly appreciated
Cheers
Anne

EsuriJohn

Do you hold a British passport? If one of you does you have the right to reside anywhere in th EU. As to everything else it all depends on age and NI contribution record.

lynnxa

as John & Kath said, you can just come straight to Spain if you have British passports

what health certs do you mean - if it's the EHIC then you would need to have paid NI in the UK for the last 6 months -that only covers you for emergency healthcare though

Ellie60

Thanks to you all. We both have UK passports. I think it is the ehic that I was thinking about. As we have been out of the country for 5 years we probably wont get that one, although we have both been fully employed in UK for 35 plus years! It looks more likely that we could be saying hola Spain!

lynnxa

you say you worked in the UK for 35 years? - So you might be of pensionable age?? if you get a UK pension you will be entitled to full Spanish healthcare

Chiclanagir

You will still need to be able to support yourselves in Spain, all the usual advice applies on other threads. But I can understand the situation. My son-in-law is a Kiwi and they were married in Christchurch at Mona Vale two years ago which I understand is not now standing. He is desperate to go back to NZ but after the earthquakes in Christchurch my daughter would not be happy there. My sympathies go out to you all there.

Ray51

But : to make such a drastic move , to a totally foreign country ,
would you not need to know and like it a bit , first and foremost , ne'er mind the passports and the rest ?

Domino

isn't Spain a country prone to earthquakes ?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...usc0003c5s.php
http://www.breakingnews.com/topic/spain-earthquake
http://www.ruralspain.info/earthquakesinspain.htm

Ray51

I'm flabbergasted ;
whether you move to Poland , Chile , DownUnda , Kenya , California ...how could you predict or guarantee there won't be some kind of natural disaster , at any time/s , be it earthquakes , floods , draughts , fires , who knows ?
Plus some other , assorted man-inflicted disasters ;
all part of a rich fabric of life IMHO .

Domino

plane landed on the roof of a house the other day

its not what is thrown at you its how you cope with it that matters
if you wish to be near to home for family support there is probably a house in the next street thats on the market

but spain does have some very impressive rocky bits just like NZ

Fred James

Read the start of the thread - it was well covered.

Domino

so you are telling me off ? ? ?

Fred James

Moi? Heaven forbid