My experience in the 7.8 earthquake in New Zealand

Just a little reminder that in the story 7.5 is used but the quake was upgraded about 1 day after the 7.5 to a 7.8.

As I woke up from a dream I was planning to fall back asleep when suddenly the ground started shaking. I just assumed that it was just a small one but, this one started off on a big shake. I told myself, just wait and see, I then thought, are you dumb Camille? This one is big! So I listened to my brain and went with it. I hid under my desk and Hyacinthe still sleeping. I screamed out Hyacinthe! Hyacinthe! He couldn’t wake up so, I decided to get out and grab him.

After it stopped shaking (for 45 seconds), I got out of the room and my mum appeared in the corridor.

“Are you alright boys?” She said, “Yes, thanks mum!” I said. My sister came out smiling. I thought that that was a big earthquake so you could have died.

“Who felt it?!” My sister said, after that I screamed to Dad, “Magnitude report dad please.”

“7.5” He said. I was so afraid. I had survived a huge earthquake, the biggest in my life for sure.

Now, as I wake up in the morning I turn the TV on for the News Report. Of course it was breaking news. They said it had struck near Kaikoura and that it was 7.5 at 15 kms depth which from my knowledge is pretty shallow for 7.5.

“Schools from Canterbury all the way up to Wellington are closed and that 2 people had died.

Please pray for Kaikoura, their families and families of the people who died in New Zealand’s biggest ever quake.