About 12:02am it hit and centred a long way away from where I am,,reports indicate a 7.5,really intense and long lasting,reports vary from 1-2 minutes,we are now getting aftershocks often and really makes me sick to the stomach TBO.
I live in the south island of New Zealand and some of you will may remember a major town down south got totally wasted after 2 major shakes in (I think) 2011.
The whole deal with these is there is nothing u can do really,in a storm you batten up the doors and windows,sandbag your driveway and /or move to higher ground,earthquakes offer little or no warning a shake or total destruction.
I think that the California members on here can relate to this you have a similar problem.
Reports coming are not got @ this stage but loss of life is minimal thank god.
I thought we had some members there but couldn't remember who. Glad you and yours are OK.
Glad to hear you are okay! Hope no more large aftershocks!
Glad to hear that you are okay.
Stay safe.
Don't F with mother nature. If you need to run, run. We have family friends whose parents died in Indonesia from the Tsunami. Take care, and hopefully you and your loved ones are safe.
So glad you and your family are safe. And that you weren't under the car when it hit.
Prayers are with you, your family, friends and neighbors. Living in the SF Bay Area my whole life I am more than familiar with the feeling of major earthquakes. Very un-nerving.
Thanks for the kind words, all I got a small crack in the kitchen wall that's all, we received around 6.6 apparently closer area's got the full impact of 7.5,I curse the fact I live by the beach and my house is build on concrete on top of sand at times (sand gets everywhere),however there is no question it dulls the jolts somewhat....less damage.
Friends in the nearby city report the jolts were very abrupt and stuff falling over .
We have had so many aftershocks its hard to count since the main shake....just got another as typing this reply...sucks,frequency is 3 minutes to around 35 but very contant.
I know I won't sleep well tonight as you kind of wait in a half sleep for the next one ...... .
good luck over there. Luckily the tsunami was not as bad as it could have been. Take care and I hope it will not get more worse than a cracked kitchenwall for you !
Take care and stay safe!
My wife just told me we have two friends in New Zealand for the past two weeks....hope they are OK too.
Best wishes from Napa, CA where we had our big shake a little over 2 years ago. This is a picture of what I got to deal with.
Good luck. Its not called the Shaky Isles for nothing.
Wow Dean, glad your safe. Hope Mother Nature calms down for you.
Wow! That is serious. Hopefully the government gets their game together quickly to restore essentials.
Wow is right. Those pics are incredible.
Just heard from our friends - they left New Zealand the day before the earthquake. Thank God they are home and all right. They will be over for Thanksgiving - can't wait.
What a horrific disaster for you and your countrymen. One can only hope you stay safe and that critical services and are restored as quickly as possible. Our thoughts are with all of you.
Thoughts and prayers from California for those affected there.
We were looking at some of the ground failures there at my work today. Sobering from my downtown Los Angeles office.
The current news now is of the amateur meteorologist that predicted the quake a week before it happened.
Look-up Frankie MacDonald on YouTube. Lucky guess???
Glad you are OK!!! At least with rain, snow, tornados, hurricanes there is some type of warning!
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