Cor blimey! It was a fairly big one too! Dixie did her bit by "Grrrr"-ing at the shaking (very reassuring). Everytime it happens I think
"OMG I haven't updated the survival kit What if this is the "big one"". And then as soon as it's over I forget all about it!
(At least I've just bought kibble so the pets'll all be ok for the next 6-8 weeks!)
There's a website that monitors these things and I took a screen dump of the squiggly graph thing. You can definitely see SOMETHING happened!
Here's a link to some info on the actual quake. It was 5.9 on the richter scale!
http://www.geonet.co.nz/latest.html It was a bit south of where I live. I live in Wellington which is at the very bottom of the North Island.