After the storm the other day, there was an earthquake in Hamner. I'm not sure exactly how far it is from Christchurch, but i've been told it's about 1½ drive. Some people felt it here. I wasn't one of those luck people. It happened at 8:15 ish, so I figure i was on the bus then.
I would have love to have felt it. An earthquake so close. It was 5.6 or 5.9 or something. The exact details can be read here:
http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/quakes/latest.html I really must re-teach/remind myself how to do links again. It's just me being way too lazy to do a search. You'll just have to deal with it the way it is though.