Early this morning at 1:19 a.m. we woke up by a decent, short pang that shook the house, leaving doors and windows vibrating for another 5 or so seconds. Frau Schilling had a hard night after that, trying to figure out how we best would flee the house fastest way in case an even bigger earthquake should hit us. Luckily we have our tent so we can always move in there...
A Richter magnitude of 4.9 is what GeoNet tells us on it's list over recent earthquakes
http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/quakes/3661295g.html
and amongst many other things here on earth it would be fine for me to go to grave without knowing how quakes of 6.3 (Christchurch 2011, 185 dead), 7.0 (Haiti 2010, >300000 dead) or 9.0 (off-shore Japan 2011, 16000 dead, one 40-meter tsunami and one crashed nuclear power station in Fukushima) feels like.
Florian
