Another Day - Another Earthquake

I was sat at my desk about half an hour ago. The desk and my chair started to wobble, followed by my tea! It wasn't a big quake by NZ standards, but possibly the biggest one I've sat through.

Taken from the Geonet Earthquake Monitoring site:

Information about this earthquake:
Reference Number 2802756/G
Universal Time October 3 2007 at 19:15
NZ Daylight Time Thursday, October 4 2007 at 8:15 am
Latitude, Longitude 42.16°S, 172.88°E
Focal Depth 70 km
Richter magnitude 5.6
Region Marlborough
Location: 40 km north of Hanmer Springs - 40 km south of St Arnaud - 100 km south of Nelson - 150 km north of Christchurch.

You can see the list of recent quakes here: GeoNet and the news story from today: Stuff.co.nz

It's not every day you can sit and do your work while sitting through an earthquake!