On September 4th 2010 I was fast asleep. My dad raced in and woke me up and yelled “Get under the bed” I did what he said and I got out of bed. By the time it had finished Dad had just got under. As we got out another one came so we ran into […]

Ahh! My dad screamed out loud and then I realized it was an earthquake. I got up and ran to the door and thought I was in a nightmare. After I ran to my mum she said it was OK. It was not Ok because an aftershock hit. When my mum looked on the earthquake […]

I was so tired I didn’t even wake up from the rumbling and shaking. It felt like 1000 trains running past. Hello, my name is Chloe and I am going to tell you about my massive earthquake experience, on Saturday 4th of September at 4:35am. When the massive earthquake hit, the house was shaking and […]

When the earthquake happened I was at Harvey’s house. My whole soccer team was there. We were all bunched up, and Harvey woke up everyone because he had dry snot in his throat. Then the earthquake happened. I thought it was awesome and scary at he same time. After that we went to the table. […]

Saturday September 4th was the most shocking day of my life. 4.45am it happened. It all felt like a dream at first but then mum woke me up with scream of her voice. Ahh! I finally woke up and rushed to my ladder to get down but I couldn’t. I was shaking too much. I […]

When the earthquake began my Mum said ‘Get under a door!” so we all got under a door. Then we put on track pants and mum said it’s all right to go back to bed. I went back to bed in my track pants. Then the earthquake happened again and we got up. We got […]

I woke up on Saturday morning on the 4th September at 4.35. It’s a shocker. Its 7.1 I’m shaking and I can see nothing. I finally found my mum. I was terrified. About 10 minutes later I wanted to go to dad. After mum went to get candles and we all went to mum and […]

On Saturday September the 4th 2010 at 4.30 in the morning the earthquake began. All the houses were shaking, no power, cracks in the ground, power lines falling over. I woke up by glass smashing and scattering all over the place. I just stayed in bed until the power went out. We couldn’t watch TV, […]

It was 4.35am. I thought it was a robber. I zoomed into my mum’s bed. On the way to my mum’s bed I tripped over a black statue. Then I woke Nick up and slept with mum. Then we all woke up and mum grabbed the radio and her cell phone and she said “Boys […]

When the earthquake began my Mum was dragging me along. I didn’t know what was going on, but then my mum said it was an earthquake. It was a 7.1. Then I got really scared. My dad and mum were on their cell phones in my sister’s top bunk as well as my sister and […]

I woke up because I thought someone had picked up my house and was shaking it. My Mum dragged me out of bed and I thought it was an earthquake. My mum dragged me to a doorframe. I was scared. I was upstairs. I thought it was going to fall downstairs. Only two vases broke […]

When the earthquake began I said to my sister, “Stop shaking my bed.” “I’m not,” she said “Then what was it?” I woke Dad up, “What’s shaking the bed”. “It’s an earthquake”. I went to the lounge and watched a movie, it was ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks Sequel”. I was in Fairlie. We went home. […]

At 4.30 in the morning on Saturday 4th of September an earthquake suddenly started. At first I thought that my dad was shaking my bed. I was terribly afraid when I heard a can fall down (I thought it was a plate) SHAKE SHAKE went the house. I could not get down so there I […]

When the earthquake started my eyes were blurry. I clutched the bed. I hoped I wouldn’t fall out because Sophia and me were top and tailing and I was the tail. My Dad flew into the room. “Is everyone alright?” he asked. “Yes!”, I called. Dad went downstairs to get the torches. Sophia went with […]

Everybody scrambling to the doors and tables. Annoyed that I didn’t get much sleep. Rumbling and shaking, what’s going on? The biggest earthquake since the Haiti quake. Howling like the house is going to crumble down. Quickly calling insurance to get a place in line. Unbelievable it happened in Christchurch. A terrible experience for kids. […]

My mouth was really dehydrated I needed water badly. Suddenly, I was completely unprepared there was a loud rumble and the whole house shook, I made a loud “oof” and then it was pitch black. It was 4.35 early Saturday morning there was a 7.4 Earthquake in action, which had now been down graded to […]

I have never felt an Earthquake in Korea. But I felt the big one in Christchurch! It was scary and frightening. My mum was very brave and she knew what was happening. She told us to calm down. It was like jelly wobbling. The power went out and it was dark. We felt scared and […]