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A year ago today, the Christchurch region shook like it had never done before[*]. Since then there have been something like 8000 recorded quakes, albeit most of them tiddlers that most people don't notice. In the two months we've been here, there have nevertheless been dozens that we've felt (we stopped counting weeks ago). Every one is different; some rumble, some jolt, some are very sudden while some go on for several seconds. We've lost count of what we've felt; like many Cantabrians we've started guessing at the magnitude and distance after feeling a quake. ( Read more... )