A bit of a wobble

We have just had a bit of a wobble here. As you can see on the image above there was a 5.9 earthquake, just a couple of k down the road. I was just dropping of to sleep when the wall behind the bed started shaking and then then the whole room shook and the windows rattled. Quite exciting really, but now I am full of adrenalin and can't sleep. Hopefully no damage was done.

Update: Yes I did get to sleep eventually. No we have no damage. There are reports of broken windows and things falling off shelves, but apart from that Hawkes Bay has been very lucky this time.

Bit of a shake up

Just had a bit of a shake up. We were lounging around on the sofa and it started to shake, then the front door rattled, the lampshade and the christmas tree shook and we all looked at each other. My first earthquake that I have been awake for, the rest have been while I was asleep in bed. It was a magnitude 6.8 sited 50km of Gisborne.

Oh and the frying pan wriggled out of the cupboard.

Catquakes

Where I work, in my sewing room, is under a loft bed. Last Monday I thought we were having a lot of earthquakes. Every hour or so the desk would wobble, and my computer screens would shake a bit too. I kept checking the NZ geo website to see if there were any quakes registered, there were none. It took me till Wednesday to figure out it was the cat, on the top of the loft bed, scratching. Not sure if this can be classed as either a senior moment, a blonde moment, or a stressed out Mummy moment. Think it is probably the latter.

Did the earth shake for you

As I was typing my last post we had a little bit of a shake up. I thought it was just some logs falling on the fire. Peter pointed out that it may have been an earthquake as his chair in the kitchen was jolted. So I looked it up on the GeoNet website and there it was.

Did you feel that rumble then http://www.geonet.org.nz/x2593170g_l.html. I had just dropped off to sleep and was gently shaken awake again. A good end to the day we had our house warming and welcome to New Zealand party.