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I work for a Kiwi company and many of my colleagues are Kiwis. When I posted this on company messaging platform, many of them were surprised that Australia gets

by jp0d 5y ago

I work for a Kiwi company and many of my colleagues are Kiwis. When I posted this on company messaging platform, many of them were surprised that Australia gets earthquakes too. I felt quite strong tremors here in Ringwood, Vic. Wife and I ran out through the backdoor to the garden. It was quite an experience.

blobby_barton 5y ago
I'm just down the road in Croydon and it was much the same. Thought the retaining wall outside had busted open and I was about to lose my house, didn't even occur to me it might be an earthquake
- jp0d 5y ago
  I thought it was some possums mucking around on the roof. My wife thought I'd started exercising on the wooden floorboards! Hope you and your family are safe.
anotherevan 5y ago
Yes, I'm in the outer south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne and everyone in our household were standing in doorways. This is certainly the largest and longest one I've experienced, and I've lived in Papua New Guinea and Tokyo for short-ish periods of time. > many of them were surprised that Australia gets earthquakes too. While we do, ones that are widely noticeable let-alone alarming are quite rare.
- jp0d 5y ago
  Yes, it's rare! But it's 2021! We've seen many rare things happen! hahaha. Hope you're safe, mate.
nyokodo 5y ago
> Wife and I ran out through the backdoor to the garden For future reference, during an earthquake if you’re inside it’s usually far safer to climb under a desk or table, stand in a doorway or up against a wall in the center of your house rather than going outside. Falling trees, power lines, broken gas mains, and even soil liquefaction can be very dangerous.
- boznz 5y ago
  I live 2M above sea level and 100M from the pacific ocean in New Zealand, the last two biggies I was out of my home and 10KM down the road before the aftershocks finished.. Tsunamis can also be pretty dangerous :-)
- throwaway0a5e 5y ago
  >For future reference, during an earthquake if you’re inside it’s usually far safer to climb under a desk or table, stand in a doorway or up against a wall in the center of your house rather than going outside. Falling trees, power lines, broken gas mains, and even soil liquefaction can be very dangerous. I absolutely loathe statements like yours that masquerade as helpful advice but are nothing more than a crude rule of thumb fundamentally built on an assumption of everyone being stupid. People aren't stupid. They're mostly about as smart as you are. People don't run outside during an earthquake simply to be outside. They run outside to be free of stuff that might fall on them. Away from falling things is the end goal, being outside is not the end goal, it's just usually the first step. Sure, someone once upon a time probably ran outside and got hit with a tree or power line, I'll give you that. But the overwhelming majority of people are going to run outside to a location where there isn't stuff that has the potential to fall on them because that is the goal, to get away from stuff that might fall on them. If the power lines and trees are swinging around they'll get away from them. People who do not have such a place readily available will dive under a table or something. If you think the building or portions thereof might collapse, by all means get the F out of it.
  - jp0d 5y ago
    ooohh.. mate, calm down. I'm sure he/she wrote that with the best intention. Hope you're okay!
    - throwaway0a5e 5y ago
      >ooohh.. mate, calm down. You're adding emotion to my statements where there is none. > I'm sure he/she wrote that with the best intention. I agree. But if you throw a cigarette butt out the window with good intentions it's still littering. >Hope you're okay! Sarcasm conveys poorly over test. Next time just say "yikes" and save yourself the typing and everyone else the reading. People less fluent in English will appreciate it too.

by jp0d 5y ago

blobby_barton 5y ago

I'm just down the road in Croydon and it was much the same. Thought the retaining wall outside had busted open and I was about to lose my house, didn't even occur to me it might be an earthquake

jp0d 5y ago
I thought it was some possums mucking around on the roof. My wife thought I'd started exercising on the wooden floorboards! Hope you and your family are safe.

anotherevan 5y ago

Yes, I'm in the outer south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne and everyone in our household were standing in doorways. This is certainly the largest and longest one I've experienced, and I've lived in Papua New Guinea and Tokyo for short-ish periods of time. > many of them were surprised that Australia gets earthquakes too. While we do, ones that are widely noticeable let-alone alarming are quite rare.

jp0d 5y ago
Yes, it's rare! But it's 2021! We've seen many rare things happen! hahaha. Hope you're safe, mate.

nyokodo 5y ago

> Wife and I ran out through the backdoor to the garden For future reference, during an earthquake if you’re inside it’s usually far safer to climb under a desk or table, stand in a doorway or up against a wall in the center of your house rather than going outside. Falling trees, power lines, broken gas mains, and even soil liquefaction can be very dangerous.

boznz 5y ago
I live 2M above sea level and 100M from the pacific ocean in New Zealand, the last two biggies I was out of my home and 10KM down the road before the aftershocks finished.. Tsunamis can also be pretty dangerous :-)
throwaway0a5e 5y ago
>For future reference, during an earthquake if you’re inside it’s usually far safer to climb under a desk or table, stand in a doorway or up against a wall in the center of your house rather than going outside. Falling trees, power lines, broken gas mains, and even soil liquefaction can be very dangerous. I absolutely loathe statements like yours that masquerade as helpful advice but are nothing more than a crude rule of thumb fundamentally built on an assumption of everyone being stupid. People aren't stupid. They're mostly about as smart as you are. People don't run outside during an earthquake simply to be outside. They run outside to be free of stuff that might fall on them. Away from falling things is the end goal, being outside is not the end goal, it's just usually the first step. Sure, someone once upon a time probably ran outside and got hit with a tree or power line, I'll give you that. But the overwhelming majority of people are going to run outside to a location where there isn't stuff that has the potential to fall on them because that is the goal, to get away from stuff that might fall on them. If the power lines and trees are swinging around they'll get away from them. People who do not have such a place readily available will dive under a table or something. If you think the building or portions thereof might collapse, by all means get the F out of it.
- jp0d 5y ago
  ooohh.. mate, calm down. I'm sure he/she wrote that with the best intention. Hope you're okay!
  - throwaway0a5e 5y ago
    >ooohh.. mate, calm down. You're adding emotion to my statements where there is none. > I'm sure he/she wrote that with the best intention. I agree. But if you throw a cigarette butt out the window with good intentions it's still littering. >Hope you're okay! Sarcasm conveys poorly over test. Next time just say "yikes" and save yourself the typing and everyone else the reading. People less fluent in English will appreciate it too.