I had a friend, Caitlin, over for a sleepover and when the earthquake happened she was saying “Niamh stop jumping on the bed”. Then I heard Mum shout get “out of the bed”. Caitlin said “is that an earthquake?” Mum came and got us, Dad got my little brother Jack. We ran down the stairs […]

I was a little star. I know because my Mum told me. The earthquake was frightening. I heard the sound of bells and the sound of jingling. I soon realised that the bells were my wind chime above my bed and the jingling was the wind chime by the window. I yelled out, “Earthquake,” and […]

My Playstation has broken because the TV fell off the shelf and it fell on the Playstation and it broke. I feel sad.

I had a picture and a couple of vases and a panel. They broke. I was sad. There was lots of glass on the floor. I couldn’t get my breakfast straight away. After the earthquake we made sure the rest of our family was OK. It took a long time to clean up the glass. […]

Nothing fell off my room or in my bedroom. My Mum’s and Dad’s TV fell off the shelf of my Mum’s room.

My bed was making a sound when I was in it. I  couldn’t sleep.

My fluffy cat, Sheashea, got under my hut when the earthquake happened. I am not telling you why. Because she was wild. I was scared when the earthquake happened because I was in a wheel bed. It was sliding backwards and forwards and jumping up really high. I saw Gracie jumping up really high because […]

30 seconds—that was how long it was and 8 kilometres deep. My Dad got out of his bed. He thought he was heading to the door but he headed to his bedside cabinet. He bumped into it and then bumped the wall. When it stopped my Mum came in. She was sounding very scared.

I don’t like earthquakes because they are scary.

In my kitchen was a very big lot of mess. My kitchen was a mess and there was glass everywhere.

Earthquakes are scary and lots of vases fell down and it was very scary. I was screaming. I didn’t know what was happening. I said to Mum, “Mum, this is scary.”

When the earthquake started I thought that it was Kobe kicking the bed. Then I heard all of the family shouting, “Get out of bed.” I slipped down the ladder and Dad told me to get down then I crawled to Mum.

In my bedroom I had a vase on top of my work table. It didn’t fall over.

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.