Quakes

Apparently there's a lot of shifting going on...
On Monday morning at 5:30 I was awakened by an earthquake. It was brief, but jolting enough for me to wake up and still feel it going.

"Wellington - A magnitude five earthquake hit central New Zealand early on Monday, shaking the nation's capital, Wellington, and waking many residents, police said.There were no immediate reports of injury or damage from the moderate quake, which struck at 5.32am local time (17h32 GMT on Sunday).The tremblor was centred 40km north-west of the capital and 60km below the earth's surface, GNS Science, the nation's geological agency, said in a statement.The earthquake was felt throughout the Wellington region.New Zealand sits above an area of the earth's crust where two tectonic plates are colliding and records more than 14 000 earthquakes a year - but only about 150 are felt by residents."
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1147641493715R131


Last night around 10:40 pm another one hit, and this one was a loooong one. Not very tumultuous, but a consistent rolling for at least 20-30 seconds. If you've ever felt an earthquake, you know that's a long time. We're all fine, nothing to worry about, just weird to have them occur so frequently:

"WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - A powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake occurred deep under the South Pacific late Tuesday near an uninhabited chain of islands north of New Zealand, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre issued a bulletin saying the quake had not generated a destructive Pacific-wide tsunami but warned it could spawn a small tsunami within 100 kilometres of its epicentre.
The USGS said the quake hit at 10:39 p.m. about 148 kilometres below the seabed and some 290 kilometres south-southwest of Raoul Island. The island is 1,140 kilometres northeast of New Zealand's largest city, Auckland."
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/060516/w051616.html