A Big Earthquake!-Celia, 8, Harewood School

On Tuesday 22nd of February 2011, the 6.3 earthquake hit.  I was very scared it was a very frightening experience at school. The teachers were comforting the school students and that made me feel safe and not scared anymore.  I am so glad my friends, teachers and family are all safe.

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We were just finishing up our homeschooling when the earthquake started. Some of the shelves fell down and most of the books were scattered around. I was quite shocked that this was happening again. The quake made me shake with terror and my sisters were quite frightened too. Most of our plates broke, our TV fell […]

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‘My story’-Hannah, 8, Home school

I was in the toilet when the earthquake happened. I started screaming and ran out of the bathroom to the doorway. I was scared. When I looked outside bricks had fallen, fences had squashed our vege garden, chimneys had fallen down across the street.

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I was upstairs in my room. It was shaking really fast. I could see everything fall down in my room and I held onto my bed. I felt sad and I had tears down my eyes. My mum and brother were under the archway downstairs, my sister was in the toilet!

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When the earthquake shook I was just putting my lunch away. two techers yelled turtle. There were a couple other kids and we got sent to the senior field. When I was at the senior field the principal Mrs Torry then said, “grab a partner and go to the joinur field.“ When we got there […]

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‘My story’-Ana, 6, Fendalton School

When the earthquake hit on Tuesday my home did not break. I was a litttle bit scared, but it was fun too. It was lunch time at school and I was under the really big tree playing tag with Tessa, Anna and Abby. I felt the ground shaking, my legs wobbled and I thought the […]

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‘My story’-Heawane, 8, Fendalton School

I was at school at the time. Unfortunately I was half way down the firemen’s pole when I heard a low rumbling sound. I wonderd what it was…when suddenley it struck! After that I had a sore head because my head had knocked against the pole so much. That night we had a BBQ. That […]

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On the 22nd of February we were playing when a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit Christchurch at 12:51pm. I find it hard to remember how I felt but it makes me feel sick to think about it. My heart is with the people that have lost loved ones. Many historic buildings have been destroyed. In the […]

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‘My story’-Zoe, 9, Harewood School

On Tuesday the 22 of February 2011 there was a 6.3 earthquake at 12:51 pm in Christchurch it was 5kms deep and was centred in Lyttelton. This is my story. I had just put my lunchbox away and I walked out of my classroom with my friends I was on a ramp when all of […]

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‘How I felt’-Chloe, Harewood School

On Tuesday there was an earthquake. I was  at school when it hit. it was my lunch time. We got into a turtle. I felt scared and cried. I felt safe when Mum came to get me.

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I was inside my classroom putting my lunchbox away when it happened. I got straight under the closest table, holding onto the legs. When it stopped I ran out onto the field because it’s an open space. There were lots of people there already. It was shaking a lot. I played tag with George then I played ‘get the […]

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Suddenly, the ground shook.  I ran to my teacher.  We were outside having lunch.  It was scary! Then Mum and Andrew the gardener came to pick me up. Mum looked terrified and shocked.  Then we drove to Gran’s house.  She had a bit of bricks fallen off the front of her house.  Dad was working […]

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I had just finished eating my lunch when the earthquake hit. I grabbed the bench  and didn’t  let go until it finished. I had to run over  to the field. Once everyone was over there water started to pour out of the ground. My class had to move three times  because the water was getting to close. I was scared  in a way. I wondered were it hit the baddest, and how deep […]

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I was trading stickers with my friends in the library when the earthquake happened. And then all the books in the library fell off the shelves and some of the things hung up came undone. Then the lights went off. They all went out one of the doors and then we all rushed to find […]

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I was playing on the playground before the earthquake happened and then just before it, I decided I wanted to climb the rope climbing wall. When I was sitting on the first bit the earthquake happened. It felt really scary and the first thing I wanted to do was get away from the climbing walls […]

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“The ground shook so violently”-Amos, 13

I was standing outside and suddenly the ground just started shaking. after the earthquake we all had do go line up on the grass. I never want to experience any think like that again. The ground shook so violently. I it was like the world got picked up and thrown and then put back down.

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It was a nice day I was eating my lunch and then it happening it was a terrifying earthquake it felt like being in a salt shaker  getting shaked. It was freaky.  My friend said he wanted to phone Pizza Hut when it happened. I was petrified. I was scared when I saw my mums […]

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