Did you feel the earth move ?
Posted in Life in NZ on 05/13/2004 10:14 am by TamI feel like I should scrawl it out in fat Crayola crayon: “My First Earthquake.” I finally felt one ! It was a 4.6, 25 km deep, 110km away up near Eketahuna . Eketahuna is up over the pass to the northeast, way past Masterton. We haven’t been there yet, but there’s a small, but dedicated group of reenactors there, including the super-cool barbarian chicks who ride the heavy horses. Pirate Camp was next door to them at the Medieval Faire, and we ran into them again at the jousting event in Upper Hutt. (Hope they’re okay !) At our place, it just felt like the house shuddered — took less than a second, and Geoff (we had people over for the weekly SCA meeting) missed it altogether.
I hope we have lots of small, damage-free ones like this, so we don’t get any big gigantic ones.