A good shake up in New Zealand

We have just had a 7.8 earthquake in New Zealand

That was a good shake up - longest one I’ve ever felt.

Earlier in the evening I’d been taking some photos of the unusual moon.

Here is a photo of the huge and extra bright moon over the neighbours roof that I took about half an hour before the earthquake struck:

I haven’t been following any possible connections between the moon and the earthquake, but some people are speculating that there is one.

It mostly wasn't as bad as in the news reports - no big Tsunamis, and no large buildings collapsed. Two deaths.

We hope everyone else in NZ is OK – that was all pretty scary!

Here is a short news story about it:

Here are a few local news links:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/86416304/live-north-canterbury-quake

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11747414

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/nz-earthquake/86420416/earthquake-people-urged-to-stay-way-from-wellington-cbd-following-75-quake

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