When the quake struck I was in the blue tunnel… it fell down with me in it. My brother went to the art centre then back to school. The earthquake struck and the Art Centre fell down. My house is a mess. At my school the War Memorial fell into the pool, it cut some […]

I was a home at the time because it was parent teacher interviews. 6.1 was scarier because it was only 5km deep and the other one was 50Kms deep. I was screaming. Me, my mum and my dad thought that we were going to die. My sister was thrown side to side in her cot. […]

When the Earthquake struck I was at school and my best friend was screaming beside me.  Her name is Fanchea and we are best friends and next door neighbours. Two minutes after the quake hit our teacher, Pip Richie, sprinted out of the building.  All my school mates ran to her, even Fanchea.  She froze […]

When the earth shook everyone screamed and people fell off the table. Then the teachers told us to go on to the field, and then my mum came. We went home and my Nana came and helped to clean up. We had dinner and we slept in the lounge. The next morning we packed up […]

At school when my friends and I just got out for lunch, Olly and I saw the ground shaking. We asked, “Why is the ground shaking?”, but Olly said, “it is an earthquake!” and everyone was screaming. Olly and I were really freaking out. A teacher called Pip Riches took the children to the field, […]

It all started when we were at risinghome I had finihed my writing class so I was waiting for my family outside I saw them comeing so I went to the van they got there just after me we got into the van and we got our seet belts on accept my mum who was […]

“When it happened I was freaked out! I was at Risingholme and I was in the van. I was smashing into the seat. My baby sister Janaya was SCREAMING! The van was smashing into my Mum. We needed to get our brother because he was at kindy. We saw powerlines hanging down from a shop. […]

“If an earthquake happens we go under the table. We were in the car when it happened. The van shaked and I was holding onto my seatbelt. A big flood was everywhere!!!!”

“When the earthquake hit we were at school ,our lights were shaking , we had to be turtles on the mat and then under our desks because it wasnt stopping.” “The ground was shaking, it was really noisey, We were all really scared , Mrs Parker was really brave!  our class bookstand and the toys all fell on the […]

I was sitting outside and the earthquake happened.  I felt nervous when the earthquake happened.  I ran to the quad.

A few days ago there was a HUGE earthquake. I was in the cloakroom and it just started shaking so I ran outside so the roof didn’t fall in on me (which it probably wouldn’t) and I made a turtle. I felt very scared. It felt like we could suddenly feel the world going round […]

I was putting my lunch away at school when the ground starting shaking. I made a turtle on the ground. I felt really scared. The earthquake bell rang and we ran outside on the big court. I went to see if Lucy was alright. I looked after her lots. Mrs Greenwood said to go to […]

I was at school when the earthquake hit. I was in the classroom and all of us went under our tables until the ground stoped moving. During the earthquake the power went of. After the earthquake the principal came round the classrooms to check if we were ok. The teacher let us have our cellphones […]

12.51pm playing on the back field with my friend’s the earth shook my friend’s and ran for the middle of the field Mr Bar told us to get down then it stopped we saw people ran for our class mates to see if they are ok we get in class lines then the aftershock “EVERY […]

I was in the bathroom at school with  some of my friends when we had the earthquake. It was scary. We run out of the bathroom and outside to where we eat our lunch. All our teachers were out there to make sure we were all ok. After the ground stopped moving we went back […]

I was at My Aunties house with My mum, aunty and cousin when the earthquake started. We were sitting at the table having a talk because it was my cousin Valerie’s birthday, and the ground started to shake. I jumped up to mummy and she took me under the doorway with Valerie and Aunty. When […]

I was at school in my classroom.  I was doing my Maths work so nicely at my desk.  All of a sudden I felt the wobbles rock my classroom and I ducked under my desk. I began to cry because I was so frightened of the wobbles.  Other children were playing outside and when they […]