Earthquake!!!

Hey Everyone,
As most of you(if not all) have heard, there was a 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Christchurch. We were sleeping near Cheviot so it was quite strong! I felt some aftershocks but the rest of my family said they didn't. Apparently there were about 30 aftershocks in Christchurch!!!
When it first arrived all the power was cut ans the water supply was drained or something. I'm not entirely sure. The TV was on the whole day on TV 1(at our friends place), they were talking about the earthquake the whole time.
We were planning to leave our friends on Saturday but after what happened to Christchurch we decided to stay a bit longer! Only logical i guess. We have a lot of friends that live in Christchurch, but luckily they're all well. The good thing is that nobody has died and there are only (so far) 2 serious injuries, one was a 50-year-old man cut by glass from his house, the second was another 50-year-old man hit by a falling chimney!!! I hope there won't be any more!
I think i heard that NZ has moved about 5 meters! Compared to the usual 40mm per year, that quite a difference!!!
I hope everything is well with all the people in the correspondence school, did anything happen to you guys?

Zala ~ ^.^