When the Earthquake struck Christchurch, I was at my old school St Michael’s. I was in two rooms, they were the library and the other was Principal’s office. It was the scariest thing I have ever felt! I was so so so scared.

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It was a Normal lunchtime. It was the 22nd of February 2011. Suddenly the ground shook violently… I was riding on Clarkville School’s flying fox. I heard the bells ringing and the power-lines shook like mad. Everybody was shouting out “Earthquake!” and the teachers ran out of the staffroom yelling “Get to the middle of […]

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Hi I’m Matthew and I’ve got a story to tell you… I was outside on the playground when the earth started shaking. I saw a kid fall off the playground, and I couldn’t see my friends, so I started to panic. I jumped off the net and ran to the field and I found my […]

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Yes! It was lunchtime! I got my hat and food and got on my mpg scoter and of I went to the ramps. I put the ramps into place, and I did my run up to the ramps. When got up to the front of the ramp, the earthquake hit! The first ramp all most […]

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- Hello my name is Jack, I am going to tell you about my story of the quake on the 22 of Feb. At lunchtime my friends and I were playing on the tunnel, and it started shaking. Then all I could hear was screaming! Every one was running onto the field. walked to the […]

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Saturday 4:35am in the morning standing under a doorway because a 7.1 earthquake hit Christchurch. On sunday 5th everyone in street was talking about it and were they where at the time it happened. also on the news they where talking about it for like 2 or 3 days.I also went to my granny and […]

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When my house shook- Ryan, 11, Clarkville Primary

Hello my name is Ryan. When my house shook it felt like a big hand was picking up my house to shake it all around. Mum came  up to my room and got me while it was happening.Then the power went out as soon as I tried to turn on the lights.  We knew that […]

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Jolt!- Alex, 9, Clarkville School

Dad woke up to the jolt before the big quake and went to the toilet,when Dad got to the toilet the BIG QUAKE started, Dad was trying to run down the hallway swaying side to side to me and Elyse (My sister) I thought it was Elyse shaking my bed like she did one other […]

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‘The Earthquake’- Yasmin, 9, Clarkville School

On Saturday morning the 4th of September at 4.35 an earthquake shook Christchurch violently. It was marked 7.1 on the Richter Scale. I wasn’t at home, I was at my friends house, and that made it even more scary! We were in the lounge and I tried to calm my friend down by telling her […]

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