My mirror fell in the bath tub and it was very scary at night time. My Mum went in the wardrobe and I yelled out, “Mum, Mum. Is this an earthquake?” Mum got out of the wardrobe and my Mum said, “Are you all right?” “Yes,” I said. I climbed down the ladder. I jumped […]

In the earthquake when my sister was crawling back she heard lots of crashing. She had to crawl back to the hall because her bedroom was in the front room. I was scared. I could not fit under my bed so I crawled to get under my desk but there was a big box under […]

The earthquake scared me so I went in my parent’s bedroom. I hopped into bed with my sister too. My Mum got out of bed. She took her phone with her and she came back in to bed after she did what she needed to do and then my Dad got out of bed to […]

The earthquake made me scared. The earthquake is very scary and in the night I fell out of my bed.

In my house when the earthquake started I was in bed fast asleep. Suddenly the earthquake happened. I was scared. I woke up. I was feeling the earthquake.

My cat ran away when the earthquake started on Saturday. I fell over on the carpet. When I fell over I heard my little sister crying. I ran to Katy. I just got to the door of my bedroom and I heard a bang! It was Mum. The TV fell on her shoulder. It really […]

In the weekend we had an earthquake. It scared me. It wobbled the table. I didn’t like the earthquake because they are scary.

I didn’t like the earthquake because I was scared. My sister was scared too.

I was in my bed and the earthquake started and I couldn’t see and I ran to my mum’s and Dad’s bedroom. I held my Mum and Dad’s hand. My Dad looked around and me and my Mum stayed in bed. It was scary. Dad blocked me so I didn’t fall out. My cat doesn’t […]

In the earthquake my bed fell over on to the side. I fell on to my side. It was still shaking. I liked the earthquake because I thought I was in a race car match when the second one hit.

Early Saturday morning we had an earthquake.  It woke up a lot of people.  Some people slept through the whole thing.  I got a huge fright and so did other people. I heard on One News that there has been about 300 aftershocks.  Some houses are badly damaged and homes are destroyed to pieces and […]

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On Saturday there was a huge earthquake at 4.35 in the morning. We were at Cholmondeley in Governor’s Bay. It was quite bad in Governor’s Bay and some people were very scared. Some were not. We all went under our beds and then into the hallway but one person nearly slept right through it. But […]

“Mum! Mum!” I shouted.  I screamed as hard as I could until my mum came into my room.  I burst into tears because it gave me a big shock.  “Mum!” I screamed again.  Mum came rushing in and asked if I was ok.  Mum told me to go to Hannah, my sister’s room until I […]

It was Saturday morning.  At 4.35am on the 4th September.   My bunk bed started to shake.  At first I thought it was my sister moving around but then it started to get stronger.  After it had finished my Dad tried to figure out what it was.  He thought it was a tsunami because the […]

Everything was dark.  I had just woken up from the noise of my bird going mad and mum shouting “Get under your bed! It’s an earthquake!” But there were draws under our beds. We ran outside onto the patio, too scared to go back into the house in case the swimming pool became a sink […]

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