@ PC #154 Apologies, I didn't mean to imply we never feel earthquakes there. I felt the big one that occured in Hastings(?) last year, and the decent early morning shake we had a few months ago, but generally after a lifetime of living on the valley floor I have noticed less earthquakes since moving up the hill. I am about halfway up the hill near the 'snake' median strip on Major Drive. We have been there for three years, and a friend of mine has been up in Kaitangata Cres for five. She has also noted feeling less earthquakes since moving up there. I had the opportunity to ask a local GNS geophysicist about this recently (since I was concerned that the median strip was there for the same reasons as the one in Totara Park and a fault might be on my front doorstep). He confirmed that the strip was cosmetic only (phew!) and that the anecdotal evidence for less perception was backed up by the local geology. The valley floor is essentially a silt filled basin that conducts and can even amplify shaking quite well, whereas the western hills are closer to more solid bedrock that better resists shaking. I agree it is intriguing though that there appears to be such a variation in perception over a very short distance.

It was centered under my verandah in Tokomaru

Dunno what time do I felt it but it wasn't very strong. I thought I was having a dream of bed shaking by its own but when I got up.......well what else can I think. A dream or an earthquake but sure I don't care about it. Just keep sleeping until I heard this new that there was an earthquake near palmy.

Was watching telly with the kids when i heard it coming with a roar (in Ashhurst) then everything got a jolly good shake. What a lot of fun. Was on the road when the second one happened.

I felt the 8:00 one but not 7:04

I feel the first one today,not pretty big then the second came. it lasted bigger than the other one.

yes i felt both of them i was sound Asleep after a bad night of asthna and it woke me not nice hope we dont get any more of these and felt the second one to i am from wanganui we do get shakes here from time to time but not like these ones

Dear samm #128 who didn't feel a thing in Kelson (Lower Hutt)since the suburb sits on big slab of bedrock.

Which part of Kelson are you in? We're at the top and every quake, even the tiny ones, shudder through the whole house with enourmous volumes of sound. I'm intrigued that elsewhere in Kelson, nothing is ever felt, that's such a difference in one suburb.

I was sitting at my computer at 7am and just after. I heard a HUGE bang and felt as though someone was trying to shove me off my chair. Didn't last very long, but was quite disconcerting. I didn't feel the second one an hour later.

heard the first one coming on then the huge bang, then the shake started. the second only heard the bang, no shake.