Stay safe, Dave!  Cheers, Christine

On Jul 21, 2013, at 12:40 AM, David Mann <[email protected]> wrote:

> During the past few days there has been a spate of earthquakes just southwest 
> of our capital city, Wellington.  They've been fairly small, up to mid-5 in 
> magnitude, but they had a 6.5 earlier this afternoon which might just about 
> be big enough to make the news.
> 
> It's been reported in our local news site as a 6.8 but GNS have since revised 
> it to 6.5.
> 
> I haven't heard any reports of damage or casualties but I don't anticipate 
> much.  I actually felt it here but it was very subtle.  It took about 2 
> minutes to get here :)
> 
> I'm hoping they don't get anything much bigger than that but if our country 
> falls off the face of the earth soon you'll know why.  There's a long history 
> of seismicity in that area with major ones in 1848, 1855,  and a couple in 
> 1942.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave
> 
> 
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