Earthquake, who felt it?

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This is the largest quake I've ever felt here. I was only a toddler when we had the edgecumbe quake, so don't remember that one.

That one is one of my strongest EQ memories (apart from the 2016 Kaikoura one). We were stopped at the traffic lights on SH1 in Huntly as we were returning from a fishing trip in Northland. The ute was shuddering and I thought we had dropped an ignition lead or two so I pulled over further down the road and put the bonnet up to find nothing wrong. Then the radio reports came through and we realised what we had experienced.

Got to visit Edgecombe in the weeks following with a friend who worked for Environment BOP. The lasting memory is that you don't realise how much you take verticality and alignment for granted until things aren't. Fences, powerpoles, buildings and dairy factory vessels were all on the piss which impacted me in how much that jarred compared to normal.

In New Plymouth for the Kaikoura one and actually saw the blue flash that accompanied that one. Initially I though the light show through the curtains had been a power transformer short until I checked out the phenomena.