a half decent one too 8)

oh yes, was woken by it

Felt it here in Stratford, only gentle, but enough to rock the tanks. Went for while so I guess it was big someplace.

Nothing on Geonet yet, but they usually have the details there pretty quick.

http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/quakes/recent_quakes.html

Ian

Reference Number 2958743/G

Universal Time August 25 2008 at 11:25

NZ Standard Time Monday, August 25 2008 at 11:25 pm

Latitude, Longitude 39.70°S, 176.78°E

Focal Depth 30 km

Richter magnitude 5.9

Region Hawke's Bay

Location 10 km south-west of Hastings

250 km north-east of Wellington

wow

5.9 10km from hastings

5.9

No earth-quake way down here.. .. I can't believe how many people are still up at this time of the night! :bounce:

my gf is in taradale and she got thrown into the wall

my gf is in taradale and she got thrown into the wall

was it the earthquake ?

:lol: i think so

it definitly wasnt me im in palmy 8)

No earth quake here (about 30 min south palmy) but ive had a couple brewskies and this seats making me numb.

No earth-quake way down here.. .. I can't believe how many people are still up at this time of the night! :bounce:

same here -

I got sent into a wall too :roll: was just going to bed. Now I will have to keep checking my tanks for leaks all night as I live above shops. Water on the floor but my only casualties was that a female guppy got in with the baby albino guppies and may have had some midnight snacks.

Oh, and I broke a nail.

Hate earthquakes, not good when the shop alarm goes off. Only a little bit of water on the floor ( 2 towels) from 40 tanks. 1 test kit and 1 pot of fish food fell over. All the birds are safe. The poor Alex was a little wide eyed.

At home 1 cat that was asleep near the fish tank got a rude shock as he got quite wet, another cat is still under the bed, number 3 thinks it's great that mum is up to play with her,a few things fell over but we and our beloved pets are all fine.

Many thanks to Keri-anne for comming to the shop incase we needed help with any clean up. :bounce: :bounce:

Many thanks to Keri-anne for comming to the shop incase we needed help with any clean up. :bounce: :bounce:

Just glad we didn't have to play "Save the corals" or re-home tank loads of fish. Hope that Discus is settled by morning. :-?

Ummmmmmm rehome the fish, I think you played that HELP game a couple of weeks ago when we lost power to the fish room.

Thank goodness for Keri-anne

You Guys are so lucky.

Hope you were all insured as well.

Now remember.. keep your old electronic gear near the tanks.. you could get new one...LOL :lol:

lol Wok

I was almost asleep when it hit, in that between dozing off and sleep phase then wham!

8ft tank fine and dandy, a bit of slop down the front... thank god for that!!!!!! I was as stiff as a bored just waiting to see where things were going :lol:

Fish shed fine and dandy, all tanks in one piece, just a bit of water slop.. sweeeeeeet 8)

If that earthquake had happened near Auckland it would have been declared a national disaster and for weeks we'd be hearing about things like how it spilled some woman's chardonnay and a man was injured when he fell while climbing out a window carrying a TV.

was quite big here in Wangas

one of my tanks spilled a bit off water.

Wasnt loud, it actually made no noise but rolled though and went for a while.

The tank that spilled was lenghtways to the quake so water sloshed length ways and over the end.

Geos had a fun ride :lol:

If that earthquake had happened near Auckland it would have been declared a national disaster and for weeks we'd be hearing about things like how it spilled some woman's chardonnay and a man was injured when he fell while climbing out a window carrying a TV.

I lol'd

5.9 eh? Bet I would have slept through it.

If that earthquake had happened near Auckland it would have been declared a national disaster and for weeks we'd be hearing about things like how it spilled some woman's chardonnay and a man was injured when he fell while climbing out a window carrying a TV.

Clive hotel has had to close their kitchen due to a cracked gas main. Luckily the new head chef (On his first night no less) smelt the gas and stopped the idiot who was trying to light the gas. :-?