Another strong quake in New Zealand 6.5
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-21/strong-earthquake-near-wellington-shakes-new-zealand/4833724<snip>
A strong 6.5-magnitude earthquake has struck off New Zealand, jolting the national capital, but no tsunami alert was issued and there were no immediate reports of major damage.
The quake hit at 5:09pm (local time) on Sunday, 57 kilometres south-south-west of Wellington, at a depth of 14 kilometres, the US Geological Survey said.
USGS initially reported the magnitude at 6.9.
It was followed minutes later by another quake of 5.5 magnitude and came about 10 hours after a 5.8 tremor in the same region.
New Zealand's GeoNet earthquake monitoring service described the tremor, which was felt widely, as "severe".
"There was a rocking and rattling which lasted about 30 seconds," a resident in the city of Nelson said.
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but literally straddling the boundary:
Wellington is on the southern-most tip of the North Island and right on top of or in-between these major faults.
Just live out in the country, and not too close to the coasts. Their west coast wouldn't be bad. I think most of their disasters have happened on the east coast, where the majority of the fault lines are.
Waiheke Island is where I'd live 
I think my GF wants to live in Texas with me the rest of our lives 
Thanks, though 
My GF went through the big ones in Christchurch, and then moved within a month, like so many others.
Personally, I'm tired of hurricanes. I don't know how you do it down there... 
I was rootin' for Nadine to last long enough to make the record-books
calling her the "Eveready Energy Bunny" of hurricanes!
