Christchurch

A rather viol­ent earth­quake hit Christ­ch­urch yes­ter­day, and it has dev­ast­ated a city that, quite frankly, has had enough of feel­ing the earth move. People are help­ing where and when they can. We do know that this is one situ­ation where throw­ing money at a prob­lem can help. It might not fix everything, but right […]

Didja feel that one?

Well, did you?

More info once every oth­er man and his dog stops ham­mer­ing the GeoN­et web­site.

Update. Well, there ya go: a 4.8 shake, focal point 50km deep, 30km west of Pori­rua, out in Cook Strait. A decent rattle.

(And if you did feel it, report your exper­i­ence here. Do your bit for sci­ence.)