At least 2 of the forum that I know of live in or very near Christchurch where there was a 7.4 earthquake in the early hours of this morning, lots of damage........
Trusting all are okay and bikes are unscathed....
roro ian and I think maybe jim328
4.33am my god my house shock,
Iain
NZ
I'm glad you and the twins survived! :)
Did damage occur in surrounding areas?
How are the rest of you Kiwis?
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Coil
Quote from: Rikugun on September 03, 2010, 08:08:44 PM
I'm glad you and the twins survived! :)
I can just imagine Iain's next avitar, lol
Hope everyones ok!!!
Without doubt the most severe quake I've been through. Very frightening.
No bad damage at my house or Iains, but a lot of chimneys, collapsed roofs, broken sewers and dodgy roads around town. A few older buildings destroyed. Only two people injured, nobody killed, which is amazing considering it was 7.4 - more powerful than the San Francisco earthquake.
Still getting significant aftershocks which is really creepy. There's one going right now.
My bike is on blocks at the moment, I thought it was going over for sure, but it's just sitting there happily demanding that I fix the exhaust leaks.
Glad you guys are okay. 7.4 earthquake or a 10.0 avatar produce a lot of shakes and shimmies. BDC
:) Good to know that you guys are OK... 8)
8).......TIGER....... 8)
Glad you guys are ok.
David
The council have just condemned the neighbours house, they have shut down there water which is connected to my place , having a meeting in a couple of hours to see when there might be water..the pipes are smashed,, day 2 with out any water..powers back on that's a bonuses
Iain
NZ
4 days into this and I haven't slept at all. We are still getting a noticeable shake every 5-10 minutes and a big shake every couple of hours. It's somewhat disturbing. I had no damage in the first one, but starting to see a lot of cracks now from this sustained assault. It's even starting to trigger quakes in other parts of the country.
This should show traces for the last 24 hrs.
(http://www.geonet.org.nz/images/earthquake/drums/nz/mqz/10/drum.png)
As someone who lived through the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, you certainly have my sympathies. There will be a lot of shaking for the next couple of weeks as the seismic fault settles down.
Brian
5.1 aftershock this morning while riding to work. Didn't feel a thing, have decided a good plan will be to go for a ride whenever the aftershocks get annoying.
615 quakes in 12 days.
Check this out - shows what's happening far better than the seismograph.
http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz (http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz)
At long last we have a date to do the earthquake repairs ($170,000 over the insurance payout !). We will be out of the house in 4 weeks. In temporary accommodation and everything in storage so you won't be seeing much of me till July.
You definitely won't want one of the tradies to drop a fag and raze the place then eh? Feel free to come out over xmas for a bbq and a coldie or two.
Thanks, I have a horrid feeling we'll be packing all through the break :-( but will come out if I can, and force you to make me a mudguard on your e-wheel
Yeah man, I can make you a mudguard for sure. It'll be aerodynamically superior to standard as it will resemble the surface of a golf ball! I could give you a hand packing up as I have been a professional mover in the past. I do take a long time packing up photo albums tho', oh the things I've seen.....video cameras are a good laugh too ;)
Pah, I bet you are a dab hand at the e-wheel by now, else you should ship it over here - I'm sure I could use it. Thanks for the offer - may need to take you up on that. The moving companies are all thieves and rogues.
Check out the price of a rental truck, I have an HT licence. We could do something regarding storage as well if you want. Moving day is easy, just put on a bbq and beers for free labour. If moving day is like today (36°C on weather report was playing it down a bit) you will need lots of beer....
A very kind offer, thanks Simon.
I'm hoping the Insurance company will cover everything, but they aren't replying to my emails :-(
It is terribly quiet here, is the infrastructure disturbed in NZ? That was a big quake and then things got quiet. I hope you folks are just busy sweeping up a bit, and not terribly damaged.
Quote from: fret nut on November 19, 2016, 12:20:40 AM
It is terribly quiet here, is the infrastructure disturbed in NZ? That was a big quake and then things got quiet. I hope you folks are just busy sweeping up a bit, and not terribly damaged.
It was very scary, but far enough North that the only damage we had was that one door no longer closes. Bike stayed upright :-) which is the main thing.
My posting is a bit slower than usual as I am not working on the bike much
I'm a couple of hundred kilometers North of the epicentre. We were violently swayed about so that we could not stand. But it was a swaying motion like getting hit from confused wave fronts when you are in a boat. No structural damage here, but after about a minute of this motion my wife commented about how she is so glad New Zealand houses are flimsy so that they just bend and don't break.
Further south in Wellington and Kaikoura the action was much more violent. Thankfully only two fatalities. Glad to have the Americans, Canadians and other Navy ships visiting us at the time and being able to pitch in with helicopter and transport support for stranded tourists and supply airlifts.
And my bike stayed upright. Had it been on the centre stand I think it would have tipped though.....