Christchurch - Earthquake. Everyone there safe and sound?
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leebutts
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We were very lucky, our house and street escaped damage but CBD and some suburbs are pretty messed up. Still getting the odd aftershock which is tough on the nerves!
leebutts
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You can see how crazy today has been here: http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/drums/mqz-drum.html
Absolutely no warning, just a loud rumble like a low plane then bang!
Absolutely no warning, just a loud rumble like a low plane then bang!
smohekey
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Lee, I didn't know you were in Christchurch!?
Yeah, the damage has been pretty bad. Our chimney came down through the veranda roof and all over the driveway.. narrowly missing my baby! We had a drive through town this morning before they'd cordoned most of the streets off, and the damage there is amazing. There's a lot of old brick shop buildings that have just crumbled.
We've been getting nearly hourly after shocks of between 4 and 5ish, but they're saying that it likely we'll get one big one yet over 6!
Yeah, the damage has been pretty bad. Our chimney came down through the veranda roof and all over the driveway.. narrowly missing my baby! We had a drive through town this morning before they'd cordoned most of the streets off, and the damage there is amazing. There's a lot of old brick shop buildings that have just crumbled.
We've been getting nearly hourly after shocks of between 4 and 5ish, but they're saying that it likely we'll get one big one yet over 6!
leebutts
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Hey Scott,
yeah, been here since early May. Not driving a VR-4 though (yet
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Glad you're ok, sounds like my work on Madras St suffered a bit of damage (big glass windows down one side are gone apparently) so might get some time off this week
Fingers crossed that big aftershock doesn't show up!
yeah, been here since early May. Not driving a VR-4 though (yet
).Glad you're ok, sounds like my work on Madras St suffered a bit of damage (big glass windows down one side are gone apparently) so might get some time off this week
Fingers crossed that big aftershock doesn't show up!
smohekey
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Just had a reasonably large aftershock then. Probably one of the biggest so far. I reckon there's going to be another big one to be honest.
I'm not surprised your work had a bit of damage. I had a drive through town before they closed it all down, and the place is seriously f$*^&ed up.
I'm not surprised your work had a bit of damage. I had a drive through town before they closed it all down, and the place is seriously f$*^&ed up.
leebutts
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Oooooooo that was a big aftershock.....
smohekey
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Biggest one yet I think. http://www.geonet.org.nz/index.html has all the details, but takes a half hour or so to be updated.
Goku
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At 4:30am a 7.1 Earthquake hit Christchurch New Zealand,.....
This is what has happened to the city center and suburbs
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mookers
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Holy F*&#^%$#....
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Yeah, we're lucky it happened at the time it did. Everyone was at home in bed, or at least just getting home from town.
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Holy crap you guys. Just seen this on the news. Carnage.
Hope you're all OK.
Hope you're all OK.
Great grandmothers spatula!!
That's a lot of damage
That's a lot of damage
mookers
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Does NZ have earthquakes often? The reason I ask is that so many of the damaged buildings are made of brick. In California (where I grew up) they almost never use brick because of the earthquakes. It doesn't flex at all so it just cracks and crumbles.
leebutts
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Yep, NZ gets plenty of Earthquakes. Most that are damaged are older buildings built before the stricter earthquake proof building standards came in.
The fact that the whole city isn't flattened is pretty amazing.
The fact that the whole city isn't flattened is pretty amazing.
smohekey
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Almost all of the damaged brick buildings are from the late 1800s or early 1900s. Since a large earthquake we had in 1931 (or there abouts), the building standards have been changed a great deal. We're actually a very geophysically active country as the only reason New Zealand is here is because of the interference between the indo-australian and pacific tectonic plates.
