At 68 it has been a while since the “earth has moved for me” but this morning at 9.15 AM Melbourne experienced a 5.8 to 6.0 magnitude earthquake, and an aftershock at 4.00 magnitude. We are all fine but I am glad we anchored the top of our display cabinets to the wall as they shook like crazy.
I know this is not a big deal for some of you who live in earthquake zones but it was scary for us.
With wife screaming, cats running amuck, me checking Maree’s china and my 91 year old mum sleeping through it all!
If I needed a reason to collect metal rather than plastic this was evidence enough.
The plastic figures were scattered everywhere on the shelves
Steady! Steady! Whereas the metals stood firm
I always prefer to play white in Chess and the fate of the black king is evidence as to why!
Fortunately there appear to be only minor damage. Click link.
Maree screamed? Kath managed to think our rattling window was the bin truck arriving!
My legions of 20mm plastics moved not at all so that just means, oh Guru, you don’t have enough of them….
Yes Maree screamed like a banshee! I like your lateral solution to the problem. Not sure that Maree will!
Glad to hear you folks are alright.
Shaken not stirred!
Glad you’re OK! 🙂 Hope the cats have recovered! None of my 20mm figures fell over either, but someone will probably point out that’s because I’m on the other side of the planet!
Glad to hear that you are stirred, not shaken, GP. We had a very rare tremor in the UK, some forty years ago, just as our cat was walking across the room. He just looked at us as if to say
“Did you do that?”
…and then wandered off to sun himself.
Regards Chris.
It’s funny you know, people often ask what side of the planet I am on.
I felt a puny 1.5 tremor once in Massachusetts (my only one). Glad you’re ok.