Who did / didn't feel today's quakes?

[Pseudonym]

Seems like much of the country felt them today. Talkback radio even reported listeners in Auckland whose swimming pools were sloshing. Although I'm a bit sceptical of that - I'm in Auckland and I didn't feel a thing.

So... where were you at 5pm, and did you feel the earth move?

And to anyone who has been affected by the quakes, hopefully it's been no more than a scary inconvenience for you.

[jimmybro1]

Seems like much of the country felt them today. Talkback radio even reported listeners in Auckland whose swimming pools were sloshing. Although I'm a bit sceptical of that - I'm in Auckland and I didn't feel a thing.

So... where were you at 5pm, and did you feel the earth move?

And to anyone who has been affected by the quakes, hopefully it's been no more than a scary inconvenience for you.

Haha Aucklanders...

[Pseudonym]

Now you mention it, I did notice my latte doing that Jurassic Park ripple thing.

What about you, Jimmy? Anything in Hamilton?

[jimmybro1]

Hahaha. Nah nothing in Hamilton.

[Gym rat]

didn't feel the quake in Dunedin but heard about the quake when I was watching the Sports news on Prime news .Wrote a few comments on Twitter last night like thinking of all Hurricanes fans and players from Dunedin,Hope all the players from the Hurricanes,Lions and Phoenix are safe and well also I hope there is no damage to the cake tin and stay strong  Wellys.Texted one of my mates in Wellys today and asked about is there any major damage in the area where my mate lives and my mate told me that there checking the area.One thing about the quake in Wellys hits me hard because of me being a person who loves going to Wellys each year

[Dontrunwithknives]

Felt it in Waiouru for a good minute and then aftershocks for about an hour afterwards.

[drizzt]

Yeah was home in the Mount Cook area at the time (not far from the CBD) having a nap after some cardio.  It shook me awake, saw the TV trying it's best to topple (big plasma) - luckily I screwed it down using the strap provided when I bought it, or it would've been gone.  Have a bunch of whisky bottles on the shelves in a cabinet, saw those wobbling around so I quickly shifted them onto the ground, then ran over and held my computer monitor... priorities I guess, haha.  A whisky glass fell off the shelf, but that didn't break, so I had zero damage at mine.

The one on Friday felt worse (to me anyway), I was at work and our building is fairly newish, so has earthquake rollers (I think?), had a whole lot of sway going on.

Was woken up early Saturday (or Sunday?) morning, and again very early this morning from some decent aftershocks.  Work was closed yesterday (as most places in the CBD were) but open again today.

Coffee place downstairs is closed *sad*

[teamfatboy]

Was at work for Friday's one, new building so it moved quite a bit, but it was supposed to

Was training in town when the big one hit on Sunday night, it was enough to have me moving for a pillar, but (despite, or perhaps because) it's in like a 50-60 year old warehouse, it handled it.  

I was benching at the time, perhaps I'd not have been so happy if it had been fifteen minutes earlier when i was squatting... so, I did in fact finish my set AND put my weights away

[Pseudonym]

"Naturally, I finished my set AND put my weights away."

You should get that printed on a tshirt, TFB. You never know - a phrase like that might catch on.

[Phedder]

For the big one Sunday arvo I was actually just getting out of the shower, would have made things interesting if I'd had to run for it *ROFL* Though I did run naked across the lounge to rescue the TV, unlike Drizzt we weren't clever enough to secure it down. Had a few pictures and paintings come down but other than that nothing major. 

In the gym Sunday morning when a decent aftershock hit one of the guys had 230-240kg or so over him on the bench press. That was a tad spooky!

[Pseudonym]

You Wellingtonians still holding on down there?

[drizzt]

All good!  Fully serious I had just kicked off a set of chain deadlifts when it started up.  At first, I could just see the plates on the rack in front of me wobbling, I thought "That's odd, they don't usually shake when deadlifting", OB1 jumped out of his office and started watching because he felt the shaking and I think he suspected I was really slamming down some big weights (haha!).

Just as I was locking out the final rep, the low rumble morphed into a violent shake and I had a bit of trouble keeping balance.  Didn't fully realise what was happening (just thought it was a tough rep!) until I had put the bar down and everything was making a massive racket.  Not many places to hide on the platform, haha, so I just crouched down and waited it out.  Couple of other guys left immediately, went outside the Powerhouse and eveyrone from the surrounding buildings were outside.

I thought the joke "Who dropped their deadlift?" was getting a bit old, so it was a funny situation for me to be in.

There have been a few decent tremors since then, I think we had a 6 at 5.30?  A couple of 5s, too.  The first one today (the 6.6) felt a lot worse than the one we had last month, may have just been the location at the time though, but I think todays have all been shallower.

Thankfully, Regional Wine and Spirits are still open, bought myself a nice bottle of scotch and some good beer to "calm the nerves" (well, that's my excuse).

*music2*

[pkgr33n]

You Wellingtonians still holding on down there?

Yeah man its not 2 bad, most buildings are allgood?

Was a sick shake lol, I was at uni while it happened, building was swaying so hard and damn that noise!

Everyone evacuated out of uni etc, took years to get home, and gym is closed, GG gains

 

[Pseudonym]

Thankfully, Regional Wine and Spirits are still open, bought myself a nice bottle of scotch and some good beer to "calm the nerves" (well, that's my excuse).

Well, obviously you'd want to transfer the scotch to a smash-proof container. And what better container than yourself?