Just in case New Zealand doesn't figure in your news, I thought I'd tell you we had an earthquake in Christchurch in the South Island. Measured 7.1 on the Richter scale. - No casualties!

I'm at the top end of the North Island so it didn't affect us.

Same day, we had a plane from the local skydiving club crash at the Fox Glacier (also on the South Island) killing 4 tourists & 5 locals.

 

Hey Kiwi,It was in my city paper today. There is a pic showing a small gold colored car, smashed from bricks falling on it. That was a very powerful quake and luckily,so far, there are only a few injuries.

 

Just watched it on the morning news. Quite a bit of destruction. 7.1 is a BIG quake!

 

Good to hear you are ok and wasnt affected by the quake.

 

ha ha i heard about it on the news and you were the first person i thought of! lol
heard no one was killed thats amazing!

 

I also saw a news article in my local news paper here in New York. Glad to see it was not much worse than it was and I hope the after shocks are not bad.

 

Five days later the aftershock continue. Here's a timeline of the aftershocks. Quite frightening actually.
http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/

 

I read about that the day after it happened on Yahoo. Glad you weren't affected by it, and their were no casualties.