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in earthquake •  8 years ago  (edited)

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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Bro - that shake was worth more than $1 right?! LOL!

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Another Kiwi! - I guess you noticed that shake too...

Your comment got me thinking...

To all the new Steemers us old timers must seem like we know stuff.

But yesterday everything changed and we are gobsmacked - my full strength voting power just jumped from 12 cents to $3.80, and the payouts on my posts have jumped from about $1 to about $20

Back when the earthquake happened $1 was pretty standard.

And until now I didn't know we could comment on posts older than 30 days - I guess that changed too!

Here is a post I did about Kiwis on Steemit back in the old days (3 weeks ago) -

https://steemit.com/steemit/@sift666/how-many-kiwis-are-here-on-steemit

Glad you re okay!

Very scary. Stay safe everyone

I am so grateful for never having an earthquake experience!
Touch Wood!!

happy to hear you made it through. here is a bit on the prediction of earthquakes using the sun, the solar wind, magnetics, and the planetary and lunar alignments. the site is under construction, but the suspicious0bservers youtube channel does overview for quake watches when relevant. http://quakewatch.net/ is the new site and

https://www.youtube.com/user/Suspicious0bservers/videos
is the daily space weather with the links to sources and resources.

That is a pretty good shake! I am glad you are well.