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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / December 2007The Earthquake and the cats
Last night at 9.00 an 6.8 earthquake struck the east Coast of New Zealand. You should have seen the cats. They tore around the room, looking wild-eyed and terrified, all except Fluff, she slept on, oblivious. There was a dull roaring sound, several short sharp jerks, and then a rolling movement that tilted the hanging light fitting in the middle of the room. This lasted about 40 seconds - seemed like forever. Clever cats Burmese, they knew what to do in these shaky isles - they took cover under the sofa - Fluff slept on. Their petrified slaves waited for the house tofall down, there is nothing so ghastly as listening to the house creaking and watching a holyhock bending over outside the lounge window. Meanwhile the radio was talking about a tsunami, didn't happen thank goodness. Bev  Signature-- The e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail. I am glad everyone is ok at your house hold Purring and praying for the others in you and the others around you > Last night at 9.00 an 6.8 earthquake struck the east Coast of New Zealand. > You should have seen the cats. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Bev > Last night at 9.00 an 6.8 earthquake struck the east Coast of New Zealand. > You should have seen the cats. > They tore around the room, looking wild-eyed and terrified, all except > Fluff, she slept on, oblivious. There was a dull roaring sound, several > short sharp jerks, and then a rolling movement that tilted the hanging light > fitting in the middle of the room. This lasted about 40 seconds - seemed > like forever. > Clever cats Burmese, they knew what to do in these shaky isles - they took > cover under the sofa - Fluff slept on. Their petrified slaves waited for > the house tofall down, there is nothing so ghastly as listening to the house > creaking and watching a holyhock bending over outside the lounge window. > Meanwhile the radio was talking about a tsunami, didn't happen thank > goodness. I'm glad you and kitties are OK!! 6.8 is a major earthquake! Your house must be on bedrock to have had as little damage as it sounds like you had. Calming purrs, Joyce > > Last night at 9.00 an 6.8 earthquake struck the east Coast of New > > Zealand. [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > Joyce Joyce, Fortunately for us we not as near the epicentre of the quake as a place called Gisborne. a couple of hundred ks away. http://www/stuff.co.nz/ Some buidings collapsed there and a lot of the business area has had to be shut off from the public as it is dangerous. So sad for the retailers right on the busiest day before Christmas. Cat breeding friend Lois, talked to me and said her cats were frantic. They are right on the beach so would have been in the path of a tsunami if there had been one. Bev >>> Last night at 9.00 an 6.8 earthquake struck the east Coast of New >>> Zealand. [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > > Bev I was wondering about Lois, it's along time since she posted here. I'm glad everyone is OK. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk >>>> Last night at 9.00 an 6.8 earthquake struck the east Coast of New >>>> Zealand. [quoted text clipped - 48 lines] > I was wondering about Lois, it's along time since she posted here. I'm > glad everyone is OK. Lois is fine Adrian, She has two lots of gorgeous kittens at the moment. Incidentally if the earthquake website doesn't open from my posting it should if it is typed directly into your browser. Bev I just came on to check if you posted! It seemed like it was near your end. Whew. Glad you are ok. > Last night at 9.00 an 6.8 earthquake struck the east Coast of New Zealand. > You should have seen the cats. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Bev > Last night at 9.00 an 6.8 earthquake struck the east Coast of New Zealand. > You should have seen the cats. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > -- > The e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail. My sympathies, Bev. But glad your house is standing and that all people and cats at your place are okay! Melissa > Last night at 9.00 an 6.8 earthquake struck the east Coast of New Zealand. > You should have seen the cats. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Meanwhile the radio was talking about a tsunami, didn't happen thank > goodness. How scary, Bev. There was "almost an earthquake" here in England when I was a small child. It was before I was old enough to go to school because I was at home with my grandmother. The floor seemed to make an indulating sort of movement and such a big noise. Everything shook and crockery was thrown from shelves and broken. I was in the living room and my grandmother was in the kitchen. I remember shouting "Nan, NAN!" and she rushed in immediately to comfort me. She told me it was nothing to worry about, it was just because God was cross with one of our neighbours. I was happy with this explanation at 4 years old. I have never forgotten what it was like though. I'm so glad you are ok and didn't get a tsunami. ISTM that once they were called "Tidal waves" ? Tweed > Last night at 9.00 an 6.8 earthquake struck the east Coast of New Zealand. > You should have seen the cats. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > -- > The e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail. Goodness thats quite a quake glad you all are ok/ Suz&Spicey >Last night at 9.00 an 6.8 earthquake struck the east Coast of New Zealand. >You should have seen the cats. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >Meanwhile the radio was talking about a tsunami, didn't happen thank >goodness. Every time there is any sort of seismic activity now the media warns about a tsunami. Are they completely stupid, or do they just enjoy terrifying people? SignatureDavid Stevenson Storypage: http://blakjak.org/sty_menu.htm Liverpool, England, UK <webjak666@googlemail.com> Emails welcome N Poo: SI O+W B 14 Y L+ W++ C+ I T+ A- E H++ V- F Q P+ B+ PA+ PL SC Minke: SI W+Cp B 5 Y L W+ C++ I T A- E H++ V++ F- Q- P B PA+ PL+ SC- Please substitute .org for .com else eddresses will fail this year >>Last night at 9.00 an 6.8 earthquake struck the east Coast of New Zealand. >>You should have seen the cats. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > about a tsunami. Are they completely stupid, or do they just enjoy > terrifying people? It gives them something to talk about when they are trying to do nonstop coverage of a disaster with little or no first hand information. Tsunami's are very unpredictable and not yet very well understood. But I'm pretty sure it would be quite rare for a wave to form and then attack its own point of origin. Seems it would go somewhere the earthquake wasn't. Jo > "David Stevenson" <cat2@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message >> Every time there is any sort of seismic activity now the media warns >> about a tsunami. Are they completely stupid, or do they just enjoy >> terrifying people? > It gives them something to talk about when they are trying to do nonstop > coverage of a disaster with little or no first hand information. > Tsunami's are very unpredictable and not yet very well understood. > But I'm pretty sure it would be quite rare for a wave to form and then > attack its own point of origin. Seems it would go somewhere the earthquake > wasn't. Aren't tsunamis formed when an earthquake happens *off-shore* - ie, out in the ocean? If the earthquake occurred under land, it wouldn't have any ocean above it, with which to form a huge wave... Joyce SignatureTo send email to this address, remove the triple-X from my user name. > > "David Stevenson" <cat2@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Joyce Basically Joyce it can also be caused if a earthquake happens inland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami All OK here, still shaking been lots of little after shocks, think 4.5 the biggest of the small ones which they say could go on for weeks. One elderly woman died of a heart attack moments after the quake hit and someone else had a leg broken, it could have been a lot worse if it had happened in the middle of the day. I have two Mum cats with kittens, they shot out of their beds very wide eyed. I was on the computer when it struck, my monitor almost jumped off the desk and a couple of ornaments fell off the shelf. Our house is very stable being on concrete so it takes a lot to rock it but it rocked and rolled for what seemed like an eternity. My BIL phoned from the UK about an hour after the shake to check we were all OK - bad news travels fast. Take care all and a very merry Christmas. Lois Burmese are like potato chips, you can't just have one! > > "David Stevenson" <cat2@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > earthquake > > wasn't. Glad you are ok > All OK here, still shaking been lots of little after shocks, think 4.5 the > biggest of the small ones which they say could go on for weeks. [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] >> > earthquake >> > wasn't. > All OK here, still shaking been lots of little after shocks, think 4.5 the > biggest of the small ones which they say could go on for weeks. Good to hear from you, too, Lois. Calming purrs to the mumcats. SignatureMarina >> Meanwhile the radio was talking about a tsunami, didn't happen >> thank goodness. > Every time there is any sort of seismic activity now the media warns > about a tsunami. Are they completely stupid, or do they just enjoy > terrifying people? Gisborne is on the coast, and the fault system that produced that quake is one of the most violent on earth, extending a thousand miles north-east into the Pacific. At least as severe a risk as the one that produced the last Indian Ocean tsunami. The Pacific coast of NZ must have been hit by catastrophic tsunamis in the past and it'll happen again someday. Take a look on Google Earth at what's happened to the islands along that fault - White Island and the Kermadecs. They're a geological war zone. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 > Last night at 9.00 an 6.8 earthquake struck the east Coast of New Zealand. > You should have seen the cats. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Bev Yow! Been through a 3.2 and a 6.7 up here in Seattle. The 3.2 was nothing - I was lying on the floor watching TV and felt the floor vibrate. Took me a while to realize what it was. The 6.7 was much more noteworthy. I was at work and the building started to rise and fall (6 inches or so at a clip). Scared me spitless. So happy to hear the furred ones are OK. How about you and DH? Purrs that you two are OK and that there was no damage. Sam and Mistletoe > Last night at 9.00 an 6.8 earthquake struck the east Coast of New Zealand. > You should have seen the cats. Glad you are all OK, Bev! How smart of Bonnie and Clyde to hide. And how not smart of Fluffy SP to stay asleep on the sofa. :P SignatureMarina >> Last night at 9.00 an 6.8 earthquake struck the east Coast of New >> Zealand. >> You should have seen the cats. > > Glad you are all OK, Bev! How smart of Bonnie and Clyde to hide. And how > not smart of Fluffy SP to stay asleep on the sofa. :P Thanks for the kind responses, gang. We are OK as are the furred ones. There have been a few aftershocks but nothing to worry about. In Gisborne (the nearest city to the epicentre) there are insurance claims amounting to millions. I haven't posted much the last few months, no, I haven't beem sick, I was given a beaut. new computer game and have been completely hooked. I have just finished the game so am going to turn over a new leaf in 2008 (er, let's hope I don't get given a sequel to the game for Xmas) Have a lovely Xmas everyone. Bev, Bonnie and Clyde and Fluff and of course, DH lol. > Last night at 9.00 an 6.8 earthquake struck the east Coast of New Zealand. > You should have seen the cats. <snip> > Bev How scary! I'm relieved to hear you are ok! Calming purrs, Polonca and Soncek
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