Entirely missed the earthquakes here in Wellington, even though I was watching tweets come in for the biggest of the four as it happened. As a general rule of thumb: even if you’re close to it, if you’re walking about you won’t always feel a 4, nor a 5 if you’re driving or on a moving vehicle. (4 & 5 can still rattle things enough to cause damage – think of the vibration of passing vehicles rattling china.) Things around 6 start to become unmissable. But then a lot of factors such as distance from epicentre and depth start to confound things: smaller, further away but shallow may feel worse than larger, closer but deeper. The longest news story I heard today was about the difficulties being faced by those who left their grocery shopping to the last minute, so on the whole I think the physical side of things is comparatively light.