6.9 Earthquake!!!!!!

[trevore]

Be safe...

[elasmo1]

don't wanna be finickity........... but it was 6.5

still bloody scary to sit through

[kermitmd]

take care. stay safe guys.

[Beachcombers]

don't wanna be finickity........... but it was 6.5

still bloody scary to sit through

Yeah my bad, the Herald had it as a 6.9 just after it struck.

For anyone wondering what its like, we had the whole house shaking for approx 40 secs. It came in waves of varying intensity. We were all having dinner at the time when it hit. Having been through a couple of earthquakes previously, we calmly told the kids to "duck, cover and hold" taking cover under the dinning table, reinforcing what they had been drilled in from school. After it was over, we all sat back down to dinner. More for the kids sake, the wife and I kept cool about the whole situation. After we put them to bed, we had a bit of a freak out!!

[Mamee & Co]

Well done Beachcombers...it is the best way to be!

[zua76]

I still am happy that I will be moving to Wellington soon and am bit curious about one thing, that even after something like a 6.5 shake or a 320km wind, Wellingtonians always put a nice smile in there face and I don't think it's the TV camera.

[girlwithanewf]

The winds aren't quite that bad here....

[ralf-nz]

Yeah my bad, the Herald had it as a 6.9 just after it struck.

You never should trust secondary sources, should you; especially news papers?!

In this instance our GeoNet web site is probably the most accurate: http://geonet.org.nz/

Anyway - stay safe!!

[girlwithanewf]

I think the papers get the information from geonet in the first place. And geonet can fluctuate in the first few seconds after an earthquake.

[Beachcombers]

The geonet site was down immediately after the quake and it was originally reported as a 6.9, then revised down to 6.5.

So there.