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January 21, 2005 8:44am by David Farrar

They are getting bigger!

This one bloody woke me up.

5 kms away from Upper Hutt and a 5.6 magnitude.

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noizy

a goody, wasn’t it? it was strong enough that I could feel it shaking the bus while we waited in traffic on Courtenay Place.

At first I thought it was the driver just playing silly buggers with his clutch or something, but then he looked around to see if it was someone in or outside the bus rocking around, so it was definitely a decent shake.

Hopefully all these ‘small’ shakes are releasing enough energy to keep the big one at bay.
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January 21, 2005 8:54am
Greg

That was a strong one! I hope it is not a sign of things to come.
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January 21, 2005 8:58am
gatoh

nice to still be asleep at 7.56am………..
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January 21, 2005 9:06am
Adolf Fiinkensein

Fascinating. What advice and instructions to the inmates of Wellington metropolitan area have been issued by the Nanny State? Will the seat of Government be shifted to Eketahuna? Will thousands of civil servants be rendered jobless, thus rendering an immediate rise in business confidence? Will we host a UN conferrence on earthquake warning systems? Will the Greens declare it all to be caused by capitalism? Will Lewis Caroll write another book?
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January 21, 2005 9:13am
Merc

Helen’s going to donate her art for survivors and talk up Air NZ shares for aid (theirs)…from the bunker, Mikey’s there already.

Then it’s head of the UN for her.
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January 21, 2005 9:47am
The Troll

Oh, and those who think that lots of little ones relieve the pressure – whatever gets you through the night – cos there aint the least bit of scientific basis to that one. Every quake is a shift, which could be a shift further away, but equally edging ever closer … and closer … and … to the biggie (jaws music, da da da da, da da da da …..)
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January 21, 2005 9:49am
GPT

I thought you were one of those mad people who get up at 5.30 or some such – how far through the “should I get out of bed and hide in a doorway or stay here and hope it goes away” debate did you get?
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January 21, 2005 10:29am
David Farrar

I am normally up much earlier but I had a late night.

I didn’t even start on the get out of bed debate – I was at the “what the hell happened to Kylie Bax and our holiday in Fiji” stage.
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January 21, 2005 10:43am
Pete

Yeah it scared the livng shit out of me that time. I jumped out of bed and made a dash for the kitchen table. Though on the plus side it got me up early enough that i was early to work for once! Shame i work in a huge old brick building at vic
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January 21, 2005 10:46am
Seth Effrikker

Each of the different quakes seems to have triggered another quake on a different fault line.
This latest one (Hutt valley) seems to be the fault line that runs through the centre of wellington but still leaves the alpine fault which just touches the makara coastline and the fault that runs the eastern side of the wairarapa valley.
So far the quakes are moving south but are in an area that has so many shallow medium intensity quakes saying there is a pattern is too hard, but predicting that a major quake will happen is easy but when is another story.
Sensible precautions : plenty of bottled water, by the box to keep light out, maybe a portable generator if you have a small business, if you run a business depending on commuications relocate to auckland (DF are you reading this) people like EDS who do a lot of government computing have allready moved the heavy iron CPU’s to auckland
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January 21, 2005 11:14am
Afolf Fiinkensein

Interesting commentary Seth. Do you think earthquakes might be like a fast bowler? A few moderate quakes just short of a length and now, just wait for the screaming bouncer to finish the over?
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January 21, 2005 12:58pm
Gaz

I wouldn’t worry about a big quake. If one happens and you die it was meant to be.
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January 21, 2005 5:32pm

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