Earthquake, who felt it?

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Me too oldfellah, these cooler nights make it easy to sleep beyond the usual 4am wake up call.

My best memory of a quake was on the Desert Road. We were doing a group bike road trip and all of a sudden we saw a ripple coming down the straight towards us and by the time our brains caught up with our eyes it had passed under us like a seawave and we were over it...

Wow, that would be a trippy thing to see. I've heard similar stories with the Edgecombe quake.

A guy I used to work with had spent time working for Lands & Survey in Hawkes Bay and had some interesting chats with older locals who had been around for the 1931 quake there. One old guy reckoned the surface shock waves looked like swells as you would see at at sea and being in a vehicle at the time was like being in a boat in a rolling swell as the 'waves' rolled by.