Bryce and I were watching TV when we felt a massive jolt (biggest I've felt since being here) and then some shaking afterwards. It was all over within about 10 seconds though. Eddie sure wasn't happy about it. She jumped up real quickly (from being lazy in front of the fire) and her ears were pinned back with a thick tail.
It turns out to have been a 7.8 earthquake down in Fiordland, which is to the west of Invercargill (the southern most city in NZ). They have been having lots of aftershocks but not too much damage. One guy said that he was sleeping in his campervan and thought some young punks were standing outside shaking his caravan. He was yelling at them and when the shaking stopped, he realised after when checking outside that there had been no one around! Some other guy said he was in the bath and the water was sloshing from side to side!
This is a seismic graph from last night that shows a big shake on the drum at almost 10 pm. The red area means that the shaking was so much that they block it off from shaking too much and wrecking the rest of the graph. As you can see, the shaking has continued since. We haven't felt anything else since though, up here in the BIG P!
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