Glad to hear you're ok aorAki.

Just responding on the recent Christchurch quakes...went out to the movies last night with the wife and as it was our first movie in a longtime, I joked about how it might be interesting to be watching a movie, when an aftershock struck...well of course about an hour in we copped a 3.95 that caused a bit of consternation!

I'm also a very light sleeper so after getting to bed just after 12:30am, was hardly in dreamland when the 5.1 at 1:27am hit. Took a while to get back to sleep after that as my mind was thinking...if this another foreshock to a LARGER one, an hour or two later???

Anyway, got some sleep and then woke around 5:15am feeling a little randy, so woke the wife and around 5:40am was just relaxing after creating some aftershocks of my own, and ready to drift back to sleep when the 5.5 struck at 5:45am!

Well, it was definitely different to some of the other major ones, in that apart from hearing it coming, it was more rolling and lasted a bit longer that the short & sharp ones we tend to get. I heard on the early news, but nowhere else, that there was possibly TWO 5.5's only 12 seconds apart, and I have to say that at the time it felt like there was an increase-decrease-increase intensity about it.

Once again, I noticed unusal clouds in the sky yesterday morning and mentioned to some people I spoke to during the day, that I wouldn't be at all surprized if we experienced something largish in the next 24 hours...I also mentioned in a post after the 23rd's big quakes, that it was predicted that around the 3-5th of Jan there would be a high risk of quakes in the region (+/- 3 days).

Based on the predictions for this month, it's going to be a real rocker!

A member in Australia started a
thread re the quakes in Christchurch.
This is just heresay as he only heard
it on the radio - more than one quake
and the ground was opening up in
many locations. Anyone know anything
else?

We're near Darfield and both the 5.1 last night and the 5.5 this morning I thought were from the Greendale fault as the shaking was very different to that usually felt from the city faults and it wasn't the "distant bobbing" usually associated with large quakes in the city. I was even more surprised to see they were both 10km east of chch as they felt much much closer.

The house here moved side to side - a familiar scenario we get from the View Hill, Greendale and Rolleston shakes with little "sea legs" movement.

I'm not liking the potential for the aftershocks out near Pegasus Bay to kick off some more major action..

Quake in Cali.

4.1 Date-Time Tuesday, January 03, 2012 at 14:18:56 UTC Tuesday, January 03, 2012 at 06:18:56 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 33.195°N, 119.449°W Depth 18.4 km (11.4 miles) Region CHANNEL ISLANDS REGION, CALIFORNIA Distances 7 km (4 miles) SE (134°) from San Nicolas Is., CA 81 km (50 miles) WNW (283°) from San Clemente Is., CA (NW tip) 103 km (64 miles) SE (144°) from Santa Rosa Is., CA 114 km (70 miles) SSW (193°) from Oxnard, CA 147 km (91 miles) SW (230°) from Los Angeles Civic Center, CA Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 1.1 km (0.7 miles); depth +/- 0.9 km (0.6 miles) Parameters Nph= 20, Dmin=9 km, Rmss=0.29 sec, Gp=205°, M-type=local magnitude (ML), Version=3 Source California Integrated Seismic Net: USGS Caltech CGS UCB UCSD UNR Event ID ci11049285

This isn't on a fault line, is it?

Here is the info on the California quake:

4.1 CHANNEL ISLANDS REGION, CALIFORNIA33.20°N -119.45°W 18Km Deep 2012-01-03 14:18:56 UTC2012-01-03 06:18:56 LOCAL CI11049285

Hawaii as well

3.4 HAWAII REGION, HAWAII19.73°N -154.99°W 15Km Deep 2012-01-03 13:32:56 UTC2012-01-03 03:32:56 LOCAL HV60295741