Earthquake Hits Wanaka; New Zealanders Want You To Know They’re Totally Okay

At 2:30pm local time, (11:30am AEST) locals felt severe movement under foot, and it is said that buildings in Queenstown and Wanaka were physically shaking. There were also two moderate aftershocks, registering at 3.4 and 3.5.

The earthquake registered on the scale at 5.8 on the Richter scale, which Geonet labelled as ‘unoticeable’. That didn’t stop a bunch of legend New Zealanders letting us know via Twitter that they were totally cool, and the only things that seem to have suffered were some jelly, and a lone bottle of cider at the pub:

On the relief of not needing to rebuild:

Good news is fruit seem ok … #EQNZ Cromwell pic.twitter.com/GbuCAUo9Fc

— Marcus Lush (@marcuslush) May 4, 2015

On the important losses:

New World Frankton is one Rekorderlig down #eqnz #magnitude6

— Briar Keenan (@BriarKeenan) May 4, 2015

On getting used to this shit:

You know you’re in NZ when a magnitude 6.0 #eqnz isn’t even the biggest earthquake in the last fortnight.

— Philip Lyth (@philiplyth) May 4, 2015

On Puzzling World theme park, which features mazes, illusions and buildings purposely built toppled over:

Oh the Wanaka tourists.. “It was a bit difficult because we had a few people who thought it was part of the experience” #eqnz #puzzlingworld

— Ashleigh Stewart (@Ash_Stewart_) May 4, 2015

On the topic of ‘it could be worse’:

I’m glad that the worst #eqnz damage seems to be the jelly cups and some rocks on the road pic.twitter.com/2smXVKkipQ

— Julie Blommaert (@Julie_B92) April 24, 2015

via Twitter & 9 News