Category Archives: New Zealand 2013

Earthquakes

Hey guys,

just a short update for everyone who is not on facebook. Wellington has been struck by a couple of earthquakes but so far has gotten through it ‘very well’.

The biggest and scariest one occurred on Sunday evening at 5.09 and it had a magnitude of 6.8.

Flo and I are fine, we both were home when it struck. I had quite a panic attack with everything around me shaking but to be honest, nothing even fell down. So we’re fine. My nerves are not the best at the moment as the earth keeps shaking. It shook throughout the whole of Sunday, most of the night to Monday and it still continues.

To check on updates: www.geonet.co.nz.

The earthquakes are all centered in the Cook Strait, not far of Wellington. Basically everything that says ‘around Seddon’ will be felt here.

Today, the Central Business District is closed as the highrises and the office buildings will be checked for damage by engineers. Flo has been told to work from home as the Fujitsu tower has not completed all checks yet. I also got a txt with the info to stay home today and not risk it.

The earthquakes did not follow the usual pattern of big earthquake and lesser aftershocks so there is a chance of another big one hitting the city in the next time.

Never a writer …

There are many things that I personally strive for. There are many things I can see myself doing. Being a writer or enjoying the written word was and never will be one of them. Be it to write in school, technical writing at work all forbid writing for “fun”. Maybe that is why it is all to easy for me to fall out of the habit of writing for this blog, but Continue reading

Update: GPX for the South Island

Hey … we are not dead yet. I have finally added the GPX file for our south island trip. Maybe, we will even get around to post some photos :). I am very determined to re-animate the blog in the next weeks, so stay tuned.

Sorry for the gaps in the map, I had to draw parts of the tracks by hand because the onboard power socked broke on the first day, hence no GPS data 🙁

Download file: Southisland.gpx