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Christchurch has had a good jolt!
Yes, and the "earth moved" for me too while I was in bed early this morning
But seriously, it was very lucky that the quake happened in the early hours when the most dangerous area was almost devoid of people. The central city has the oldest (brick and stone) buildings . . . Also the forward thinking of the authorities to have a purge to reinforce and strengthen many of the older buildings has now paid off (not popular ideas at the time!).
For those overseas, who are interested . . .
I'll attempt to make a video clip and post it here soon too.
Here's a couple of links to the TV News Video (both the same). NOTE the first is 4.5MB in size!
Leo, we were following Sky News regarding the earthquake, however information was very sketchy until yesterday afternoon. UK time. BUNTY sent us a link early yesterday as we did not even know at that time if it hit North or South Island. Great that we think about each other. Please keep us in the Uk informed. Cheers. Drummond
This is a response that I have received from a friend who lives in Christchurch. I also snent an E mail to Vic Morrison (the Flat Four editor, who lives in a rural area west of Christchurch, but haven't received an answer yet.
You may have seen some terrible images on television. They are mostly of old, brick buildings. Although it was bad here, the most violent I have ever experienced-and I have felt many quakes-it was worse some 30 kilometres west of us. A blind fault broke through to the surface and moved four metres laterally at 4.35 am.
It was dark. I leaped over to drag Judy to the floor, but she didn't want to move. She decided to stay in bed throughout, and was perfectly safe, due to our good, frame house and gang-nail trusses in the roof. Then I went into my study to try to save my electronics equipment from flying objects, but they had already flown, but without causing damage. I found it a struggle to get into the study, and had to drag myself through the doorway. In the end, I stood by the doorway, hanging on until it was over. It didn't last long-about 20 second perhaps, but it felt very long.
After the immediate drama, while we were on the frosty deck, looking around, Judy slipped and fell, but came to no harm. She managed to get up and back into the relatively warm house.
The interior of the house was a mess, with a lot on the floor, but that was fixed quickly when light dawned. I walked round the house to check it, and found it mercifully untouched. Our car was safe under what we call a car port, a roof on four poles. Later, I thought it prudent to move it into the open. The aftershocks continue, with the ground trembling constantly.
As soon as the quake hit, we lost electricity, phone, water and sewerage services, so Judy and I "went camping", using our prepared earthquake disaster kit. We had about 150 litres of water in two great plastic trash buckets. So we had no worrries about water supply. Some people had scoffed at our disaster box and our huge store of water, but it saved us a lot of stress.
Though sunny and mild, it was a fairly grim day as we hung on from event to event. I dashed out to check on some more Bible study friends. Most were unscathed, though an unborn baby began to make his presence felt and was born this afternoon. As I write, there has been another tremor, a 4.6.
Some friends who had electricity and water invited us around for the evening meal and a bit of company. That was a relief. When we came home a few hours later, services had been restored, and life returned, for us, almost back to normal. We understand that we may expect a Richter six follow-up some time, but what's a six when you've had a 7.1? The central city is under night curfew. People living there have been evacuated. Kaiapoi, a little town north of here is a mess, with a recommendation to people to move out.
We thank God for looking after us, even to the location of our home, on a slight rise, and well away from the coast, where there has been slumping and flooding.
Tomorrow we are told to expect 140 km/hour gales from the west.
If you need more information, just ask. And feel free to circulate this email.
See what you mean; there are so many. What is the correlation between the depth and size of circle (is that intensity) and what is felt on the surface. Logic says the least deep would feel stronger on the surface if at the same intensity. Is that correct or is the intensity as measured on the surface? Since the moment magnitude scalehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_magnitude_scale translates into damage categories....
Based on the table of occurence in the link above you are having the world's year's worth!
Boy do I hate earthquakes now. Still more aftershocks. Up till the other day we had 1000+ aftershocks over 2.1 Magtude?
You can still feel most of them because they are only 5 to 15kms down.
We lost our chiney and had 7 broken windows aswell as alot of stuff fall over inside.
Dads hydraulic press fell on the 8hp. Lucky only did little damage. Its dina bolted to the ground now.
Had a boiler fall over in the Workshop down at Ferrymead in the Railways Workshop.
We had to bring 2 rail crains into workshop to pick it up and put it onto a newly made suport structure.
Hasnt moved since.
There are still some places that do not have water or sewer.
Chris~ RIP
Possibly the only person or one of the few that owned one of every type Bradford at the same time CA,CB,CC,CD.
1935 Jowett 7 Project unfinished.
Chris~ RIP
Possibly the only person or one of the few that owned one of every type Bradford at the same time CA,CB,CC,CD.
1935 Jowett 7 Project unfinished.
