22 February 2011

Earthquake/aftershock

Just a brief notice to let you all know that I am fine after todays 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch. During the shock I was in my office on the 8th floor at uni. As soon as we realised a major shock was going on we dived under our desks and sat it out. Computer monitors were falling over, books falling down right where I had been sitting 10 seconds earlier. Uni was evacuated and I went straight to The Paddock to be with family and out of town.

Damage in town is reported to be worse than in the 7.1 quake in September last year. I have not yet been home to see how my apartment is, but at this stage it really does not matter. Everyone I know appear to be okay at this stage, and my family visiting from Denmark had just left Christchurch in the morning. They are safe in Hamner.

This will be all for now, I just wanted to let you know that we are all safe down here. Hopefully my next post will be less affected by natural disasters...

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