At midnight on Monday morning there was an earthquake. It was in hanmer springs down south where it first started. I live in Palmerston North in the north island. The magnitude was 7.5 in hanmer springs when it got to Palmerston North it was its magnitude was 6.5.
When the earthquake hit my house my bed was shaking side to side,and it woke me up. I screamed out to my mum she said it was an earthquake. “Get under the doorway in your room”.she yelled. My brother and I quickly ran to our bedroom doorway where our mum and stepdad was. It seemed like it went on for ages. But it was two earthquakes at once because the big earthquake caused another one to happen at the same time. Finally it stopped.
I'm terrified of earthquakes so afterwards i up for another hour then i went to bed. In that hour i just layed in bed. But it was really spooky because it was so quiet afterwards outside. After that big earthquake there has been over one thousand aftershocks. On monday afternoon i was at school and we had a big 6.6 magnitude aftershock. The lights in the classroom were swing hardout side to side. It happened during story time My teacher who was reading the book was Miss Gordon. Miss Gordon yelled out earthquake. The whole class got under the tables. We did drop, cover, hold. I was very scared and i started crying and getting upset. Luckily all my friends were taking care of me. Then my other teacher Mr Robertson took me outside to calm me down. He told me to go get some water and come back inside.