Well, actually, all day. Alarm goes off at 6am, 6.03am I'm standing in the bathroom having just flushed the loo. You know in some places, you can hear some water pump working to refill the cistern, that sort of rumbly, whirry sound? Almost like an insinkerator? Well, I'm standing in front of the sink thinking, 'It never made that noise before...', when the house starts rumbling. Everything is moving, the light is swinging, and it just keeps going. 15 seconds later, and I have come out the other side of my first earthquake.
At 5.1, it was substantial enough - were it not for the Big One in September past, this would have been a fairly major sort of seismic event, newsworthy in it's own right. It was big enough to have it's own little subset of aftershocks all throughout the day - most of which I missed as I was walking about, others big enough to really give to office a good rattle. As it was, this is still technically just one of many aftershocks following September 4th. Apparently, the eighth biggest.
I have become a bit of a GeoNet fan, it is constantly open in a tab in my browser. It's nice to know what the earth beneath you is up to!
Other things of note:
- Really, really, really need to get paid.
- Really, really, reaaaaally need to get my Work Permit application in.
- Really, really, reaaaaaaaaallllly want to be in ZQN.
(And I miss you.)
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