I've only just been able to see what's happened. It 'looks' to me like the quake and NZ$ move caused a move in the others. The others have bounced, but the NZ$ is still down. Of course I can't tell if something else happened at almost the same time which caused the move. NZ is a small economy, but it is one of the highly traded currencies The end result is the NZ$JPY has dropped from pre quake to now from 63.5 to 61.85 and NZ$US$ from 76.35 to 74.68! Thanks I feel for those really affected. But, even when you're not, it affects you emotionally. It feels like we're back to Sep, feeling a bit nervous and jumpy. And that didn't happen straight away, it took a few hours to kick in. Well, just the fact that you are able to think straight and recall memories of what were you doing at that time it stroke shows you are not anymore in shock mood. One often looses details like that afterwords, I know first hand, heh. We have often quite much floods more south in my other home in CR and those lost lives is a big tragedy. Same reasons, building in wrong places, using wrong techniques, materials... etc. Many families are affected and it heals long. Actually -10 to -15 is pleasant if there is no wind and low humidity, -25 to -32 gets to my nerves, kids in kindergarten do not go anymore outside and have too