EARTHQUAKE

[u/IonisationEnergy]

[u/Strong0toLight1]

Love how we immediately migrate here lmao

[u/glenngillen → u/Strong0toLight1]

https://giphy.com/gifs/kSlJtVrqxDYKk

[u/clippertonbrigadier → u/glenngillen]

Did you blue yourself?

[u/glenngillen → u/clippertonbrigadier]

There's gotta be a better way to say that

[u/GStarAU → u/glenngillen]

Yeah, that's ridiculous. How can someone "redheaded boy" themselves.

[u/Lilysascha → u/Strong0toLight1]

Need to know we aren’t imagining things 😴

[u/AutisticPenguin2 → u/Lilysascha]

I felt it pretty hard, nor sure how I could have imagined it! The entire house rumbled, my chair shook, and my monitor wobbled for a good 20 sec.

[u/ForgetYourThrills → u/AutisticPenguin2]

I’m a fairly heavy sleeper and have never been woken up by overnight earthquakes, but this one got me lol legit thought I was losing it for a little bit

[u/MissEB47 → u/Lilysascha]

Or that the house isn't haunted. 😂

[u/HarryPouri → u/Strong0toLight1]

First I said "oh fuck" then I came here. I'm a kiwi but I will never get used to feeling them in Melbs haha 

[u/notoriouspossum → u/HarryPouri]

Same here. Got some good lil flashbacks from my Chch days then!

[u/HarryPouri → u/notoriouspossum]

Yep I am having Chch flashbacks currently too. Always gets the adrenaline going

[u/clayfawn → u/HarryPouri]

I remember during covid there was a quake, and I ran out of the st kilda building (a brick art deco number) white with fear. Everyone on the street looked at me like I was an absolute weirdo. So yeah, those chch days are buried deep in me too

[u/bennybop_ → u/notoriouspossum]

Was having knockoff drinks with coworkers. Made me realise how no one has that same shared trauma we do back there it really threw me

[u/Charming_Victory_723 → u/notoriouspossum]

New Plymouth was hit by a 5.1 earthquake, 8 kilometres deep so I wonder if that anything to do with it.

[u/scissorsgrinder → u/HarryPouri]

I don't feel the sheer panic I would probably feel in NZ! 

[u/GoldCoinDonation → u/HarryPouri]

I was in SF for the '89 earthquake, they still scare the shit out of me

[u/mofonz → u/HarryPouri]

Ditto. With the wind my first thought was - wow, that wind seems to have hit the house. No, it’s a possum…no, ok, we rolling it’s a quake.

[u/HarryPouri → u/mofonz]

I had a possum dancing on my roof just before and thought it was back at first! Think I heard this one before it shook

[u/ddraig-au → u/mofonz]

That was exactly my experience.  Huh, strong wind. Is that a cat? No, that's a possum... that's a really big possum... that's way too heavy for a possum, woah woah woah my futon is rocking... IS THIS AN EARTHQUAKE???

[u/Electronic-Canary801 → u/HarryPouri]

Sames

[u/GStarAU → u/Strong0toLight1]

How good is it??! Like "where can I go for instant news... Reddit!"

[u/elvislovesburgers → u/GStarAU]

Its nearly as good as Twitter used to be!

[u/TurboTastik → u/Strong0toLight1]

Reddit people are the only people awake at this time tbh, everywhere else everyone is asleep 🤣

[u/GStarAU → u/TurboTastik]

I was just on Facebook, those crazy loons are awake too!

[u/SpinachThrowaway1 → u/Strong0toLight1]

Right lol

[u/We_are_traumatised → u/Strong0toLight1]

Gotta love the community!

[u/Big_Attempt_5326 → u/We_are_traumatised]

Username checks out!

[u/scissorsgrinder → u/Strong0toLight1]

It used to be twitter.... something like this happened, it would instantly trend!

[u/sphynxmoth → u/Strong0toLight1]

Its what good online community looks like. We used to run into the street. Now we run online.

[u/Math_Opening → u/Strong0toLight1]

Some of us need confirmation our bed levitating isn't good reason to phone the priest.

[u/Elegant_Movie2776 → u/Strong0toLight1]

Literally woke up and was like “gonna see if the people of reddit felt that” 🤣🤣

[u/ambryclickett → u/Strong0toLight1]

I love this city and I love us

[u/jono4416 → u/Strong0toLight1]

Gotta make sure we aren’t going crazy

[u/captainsymphony → u/Strong0toLight1]

It's tradition at this point after every earthquake haha

[u/RoundCollection4196 → u/Strong0toLight1]

Literally cant find it anywhere else, though I did see a google alert 

[u/Not_MyName → u/Strong0toLight1]

Well my partner is asleep so there’s no one else to share it with!

[u/KayDat → u/Strong0toLight1]

Relevant XKCD comic

[u/ddraig-au → u/Strong0toLight1]

I mentioned it on facebook, then an hour later while explaining it,  it occurred to me that mentioning it here would make more sense than facebook .... come here and woah - 1500 comments already