Earthquaking

Earthquaking

No one's mentioned the earthquake?

In Dunedin, got woken up at around 4:30, entire house was rocking for around 30 seconds, noise was quite horrendous.

Haven't been able to get back to sleep since.

I was actually in Rome the night of the big Italian quake last year, which was obviously a heck of a lot worse, being a few stories up in a crappy derelict hotel. Funny how everyone knows what you SHOULD do in an earthquake (door frame, table, etc), but all I can do is lie in bed thinking "cooooooooool".

Here's the link, a few damage reports coming through:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4094986/Massive-7-4-quake-hits-South-Island 

Hit quite bad here just south of Christchurch city. There's a bit of structural damage in places near.

Did a once over down the street seems everyone is alright. Had a heap of rumbling aftershocks. Storm water and sludge covering up all our streets. Suns up now so will check around.

woke us up in Wgtn, but wasn't like an o my god moment- we get them all the time
Just read and saw pics on Stuff- huge

Hope everyone in Church is ok.

So God has finally had enough eh. Step one in Operation Cleanse Canterbury; maybe he's a BOP supporter

Edit: tongue is meeting cheek as i write this...of course I hope everyone is ok, except maybe the White Supremacists
Salmon072010-09-04 08:08:06

Some pretty outrageous images on here:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4094986/Massive-7-4-quake-hits-Christchurch

It seems a miracle that it happened at 4.30am, otherwise there would have been massive casualties one would expect

was a big shake, woke the house hold up, would have been for at least a minute and  a lot of after shocks.

So power is on etc ?
Is the water ok?

Hope The Bay team are ok

our hopes and prayers are with them...

Was just about to post exactly what Jambo said- Radio NZ is a mine of info

Seemas like an apt avatar Kiwi Jambo: Salmon072010-09-04 09:53:55

This. Along with everyone else of course, but as a Steamers fan I gotta recognize.

 

Its a crystal set actually !
The first time I heard about Surround sound was during the eighties when the film earthquake starring Steve Mcqueen was released!
They promised that you would feel the cinema shake !
Kiwi Jambo2010-09-04 10:44:56

By the way, i'll be extremely surprised if the major tabloids don't lead with the following tomorrow:

+1 hope everyone, especially our feverites down there are ok

[QUOTE=C-Diddy]By the way, i'll be extremely surprised if the major tabloids don't lead with the following tomorrow: [/QUOTE]
He played last night!

Even if it is the most racist place on earth, I hope everyone in ChCh is ok.

 

I love it when New Zealand leads international news! Good to hear there were no fatalities, hope everyone is alright.

Comments from the Herald Sun online -

Am in Chch for a week from Monday, not ideal.

Funny you say that. Been watching the Earthquake news on TV1 this morning - they break to an ad for Godfreys of Christchurch, advertising their big vacuum cleaner sale this weekend.

Well whoop-de-do, our house has been torn down by an earthquake, but let's take our mind off it by going vacuum cleaner shopping.

On second thought, it could be quite timely with the big clean-up...

Obviously a very quick marketing team at Godfreys then.

Christchurch summed up in one picture:




Robb2010-09-04 12:28:08

Ive been watching Tv1 most of the morning and think their coverage has been really good.

those ads have been bought and paid for, therefore tv stations are obligated to screen them regardless.

That was scary, it just kept going.  Most earthquakes go for a few seconds - that was at least a minute.  I couldn't see a thing and didn't want to turn on the light in case the wiring had been screwed and it started a fire (didn't think fully logically at that hour).  As such I just stayed where I was freaking out until it stopped.  Alarms going off everywhere and some sizable aftershocks.  Nobody in my house hurt fortunately but my mates mother had a bookcase or wardrobe fall on her but she's all good.  Got to be thankful it wasn't during the day or it could've been a lot worse.

Went into work at 8am (video store) and thousands of DVD's everywhere - absolute chaos and took hours to rectify and the good work could easily be undone by another big aftershock.  When we finished the boss showed us the quake on the security cameras and one of the shelves a camera was focusing on was being flung from side to side (these are big and heavy) and we found DVD's under the shelves still standing upright.  Also part of the wall was cracked and you could see outside.

Some streets are flooded, in town there's rubble all over some of the streets, and soil has seeped up through the asphalt making big bumps in the road (as well as massive cracks in the road).  Also apparently the Avon River swelled up hugely and went over its banks when the main quake was still happening.

Eeep, I was awake and felt this. Thought Wellington was finally going to the sh*tter and getting flushed by it's maker.

Didn't think it was this bad. Bloody hell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCeD_6Y3GQc

I must be the only person in Wellington not to feel this. Guess I'm a sound sleeper.

Seems quite bad, hope everyone's OK.

I didn't either and normally my room shakes pretty bad. Hope all those in CHCH are safe. My mum's best mate and her daughter decided to go to queenstown a day early, funny how stuff like that happens, they'd have been affected pretty bad.

I'm back home in chch for uni holidays. Got a rude awakening from that. A bookshelf fell over at the flat that i was in and a few vases fell off the shelves at home. Power was out from 4.30 til about 10am. Lots of roads cracked, anyone with a brick chimney will be lucky to see it still standing.

Up to $2Billion worth of damage. A lot of it is out in the New Brighton area as well, which is a lower socioeconomic suburb of chch. And now there's a report of 9 people killed in a plane crash over fox glacier. Pretty horrible day quite frankly.

I napped hard.

anyone else think Sawu, or Mods, should change title of this thread to reflect the seriousness, now Im all for a nice pun or wordplay but this calls for gravity...