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Old 12-21-2007, 12:21 AM
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Three buildings collapsed and gaslines ruptured.


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Date-Time Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 07:55:19 UTC
Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 08:55:19 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 38.842°S, 177.930°E

Depth 35.6 km (22.1 miles) set by location program

Region NORTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND
Distances 20 km (15 miles) SSW of Gisborne, New Zealand
110 km (70 miles) NE of Napier, New Zealand
355 km (220 miles) SE of Auckland, New Zealand
380 km (235 miles) NE of WELLINGTON, New Zealand


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Old 12-21-2007, 12:59 AM
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Isn't that where piers38 and piersdad live, somewhere in New Zealand?
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I think so.

The damage was in the Gisbourne area.
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Old 12-23-2007, 06:13 AM
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My daughter woke me and my wife up to say "An earthquake woke me up" I would never have known as I sleep like death.
Apparently it took 90 seconds to reach us some 350 miles away from the epicenter on another island well south of the quake.



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