The earthquake made me scared. The earthquake is very scary and in the night I fell out of my bed.

In my house when the earthquake started I was in bed fast asleep. Suddenly the earthquake happened. I was scared. I woke up. I was feeling the earthquake.

My cat ran away when the earthquake started on Saturday. I fell over on the carpet. When I fell over I heard my little sister crying. I ran to Katy. I just got to the door of my bedroom and I heard a bang! It was Mum. The TV fell on her shoulder. It really […]

In the weekend we had an earthquake. It scared me. It wobbled the table. I didn’t like the earthquake because they are scary.

I didn’t like the earthquake because I was scared. My sister was scared too.

I was in my bed and the earthquake started and I couldn’t see and I ran to my mum’s and Dad’s bedroom. I held my Mum and Dad’s hand. My Dad looked around and me and my Mum stayed in bed. It was scary. Dad blocked me so I didn’t fall out. My cat doesn’t […]

In the earthquake my bed fell over on to the side. I fell on to my side. It was still shaking. I liked the earthquake because I thought I was in a race car match when the second one hit.

Early Saturday morning we had an earthquake.  It woke up a lot of people.  Some people slept through the whole thing.  I got a huge fright and so did other people. I heard on One News that there has been about 300 aftershocks.  Some houses are badly damaged and homes are destroyed to pieces and […]

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On Saturday there was a huge earthquake at 4.35 in the morning. We were at Cholmondeley in Governor’s Bay. It was quite bad in Governor’s Bay and some people were very scared. Some were not. We all went under our beds and then into the hallway but one person nearly slept right through it. But […]

“Mum! Mum!” I shouted.  I screamed as hard as I could until my mum came into my room.  I burst into tears because it gave me a big shock.  “Mum!” I screamed again.  Mum came rushing in and asked if I was ok.  Mum told me to go to Hannah, my sister’s room until I […]

It was Saturday morning.  At 4.35am on the 4th September.   My bunk bed started to shake.  At first I thought it was my sister moving around but then it started to get stronger.  After it had finished my Dad tried to figure out what it was.  He thought it was a tsunami because the […]

Everything was dark.  I had just woken up from the noise of my bird going mad and mum shouting “Get under your bed! It’s an earthquake!” But there were draws under our beds. We ran outside onto the patio, too scared to go back into the house in case the swimming pool became a sink […]

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On the weekend it was Olivia’s birthday. We had lots of fun, the first game we played was ‘Hands Up” and then we played a really fun game and I rang Jade and said: Can you come over now?” “Yes” so Jade was at last here and now it is the best part: the food, […]

The whole of Christchurch was shaken at 4.35 am at night breaking everything from chimneys and buildings. My dad even tried to get upstairs to Briana and me, but he didn’t succeed, he kept falling over. The only thing that didn’t break was a picture of Briana and my dad’s bike. I was in my […]