Kinda major earthquake hits NZ

[Daniel]

Death Toll's at 75 now.
The question now isn't 'Will it rise?' But 'How much will it rise by?'
Let's hope the answer is 'very little'

 

[Crumpet]

^

It just popped up on my homepage about it reaching 75..

I don't want to see that number much higher when I log on tomorrow.

 

[no duping]

I'm very sorry to tell you all that the police have called off the rescue operation at the CTV building...too much fire. not survivable. estimated 100 people still inside

 

[no duping]

I made a mistake I thought magnitude doubles with each digit higher, but it seems it's a factor of 10. So last year's 7.1-magnitude earthquake was more than 10 times as strong as this one.

this earthquake was much less magnitude, but much closer to the city and much much shallower. also the force had a greater g force (2gs) on the buildings...kinda like applying an x value force slowly or applying the same force in an instant. described by a seismologist today as: imagine the buildings were lifted 2 inches then dropped.

 

[Tesla]

I'm very sorry to tell you all that the police have called off the rescue operation at the CTV building...too much fire. not survivable. estimated 100 people still inside

My thoughts and prayers are with those people inside.

 

[no duping]

thank you tesla. the rescue operation has moved to approximately 10 other sites where it has been confirmed that people are still alive. recovery of bodies from other sites will start once everyone possible has been rescued. this is new zealands worst ever natural disaster. dark days. a nation in mourning. No GT5 for me, just keeping my little girls safe, happy, and sheilded from the worst of the news, but its hard, newspaper banners outside the shops and newsflashes on the telly... please donate to the red cross NZ if you've got a spare fiver ...cheers guys...

 

[no duping]

.sorry not getting it right........

 

[SkylineObsession]

Learned today that one of my workmates and a couple fellow car club members (who are all friends) were dining at Wendy's (Wendy's sundaes i think, or maybe Wendy's burgers if that shop has opened) in the CBD when the quake happened - they took off running i think.

Unfortunately one of their cars got damaged, an A31 Cefiro (seen in this pic at our car club display last year). All the left side is damaged and the rear windscreen broken. Another members' S13 Silvia is still status unknown (she's horribly worried about it - the city was in lockdown so couldn't go back to the car). I know its not as significant as losing a life, but to some people their cars mean everything to them - just like family (same with me).

I think that Grand Hotel is gonna have to come down if the quake doesn't bring it down.

 

[Skython]

Well, there's 300 missing, sad thing is, only 50 or so of those 300 are probably alive, it's a real shame for Christchurch, since everything was weakened by the one last year I hope you all recover from all the heart ache soon, and other aches, bruises, broken bits, it's amazing hearing some of the stories on the news of what people did, one person had a massive bit of concrete land close to them, it landed on an angle lucky for them and after an hour they were found... But for some others, almost brings tears to your eyes.

 

[Dotini]

this earthquake was much less magnitude, but much closer to the city and much much shallower. also the force had a greater g force (2gs) on the buildings...kinda like applying an x value force slowly or applying the same force in an instant. described by a seismologist today as: imagine the buildings were lifted 2 inches then dropped.

I'm sad and disturbed at these earthquakes that have struck our friends in New Zealand. The loss of life is painful. Rescue is still ongoing, and recovery is yet to come. But it surely will, as your people are resilient and resourceful.

I've heard that thousands of small quakes since the big one last year have weakened even the most modern architecture. It seems Christchurch, located on a fault, will have to be rebuilt along different principles, or substantially relocated.

Here in Seattle we too live in dread of The Big One. Every ten years or so we get something around 6.0 (several miles down) and we are again reminded of our vulnerabilities. Some day the 9.0 will come. A few hundred years ago, our local volcano, Mt. Rainier, erupted and sent mud flows 50+ miles into the present day city.

I have no accurate count, but it seems to me the sheer number of volcanoes and earthquakes endured on our planet over the last few years has significantly increased over the previous period. I hope I'm wrong about that.

In sympathy,
Dotini

 

[Crumpet]

Unfortunately one of their cars got damaged, an A31 Cefiro (seen in this pic at our car club display last year). All the left side is damaged and the rear windscreen broken. Another members' S13 Silvia is still status unknown (she's horribly worried about it - the city was in lockdown so couldn't go back to the car). I know its not as significant as losing a life, but to some people their cars mean everything to them - just like family (same with me).

They must be feeling terrible, I have yet to own a car but I know for a fact I couldn't bare my car being in that situation. Especially if I had forked out a load of money on it, hope the S13 is okay. It would mean everything to me if I owned it.

It's such a shame these events happen, but I guess they have too...

 

[Daniel]

I'm sad and disturbed at these earthquakes that have struck our friends in New Zealand. The loss of life is painful. Rescue is still ongoing, and recovery is yet to come. But it surely will, as your people are resilient and resourceful.

I know. I reckon Mother Nature should stop bulling Christchurch. It's been almost half a year since the first big one 👎

I've heard that thousands of small quakes since the big one last year have weakened even the most modern architecture. It seems Christchurch, located on a fault, will have to be rebuilt along different principles, or substantially relocated.

I've read somewhere that houses pre-1970s are at risk. And fairly new houses in NZ are built to an earthquake standard (iirc).

Here in Seattle we too live in dread of The Big One. Every ten years or so we get something around 6.0 (several miles down) and we are again reminded of our vulnerabilities. Some day the 9.0 will come. A few hundred years ago, our local volcano, Mt. Rainier, erupted and sent mud flows 50+ miles into the present day city.

I guess Washington's a bit similar to NZ. For us, the earthquakes are in the South Island. Auckland's got the volcanoes There's over 60 around New Zealand, and a further 48 in Auckland alone (most are extinct though )
I don't want to see that day in Auckland

 

[CodeRedR51]

Here in Seattle we too live in dread of The Big One. Every ten years or so we get something around 6.0 (several miles down) and we are again reminded of our vulnerabilities. Some day the 9.0 will come. A few hundred years ago, our local volcano, Mt. Rainier, erupted and sent mud flows 50+ miles into the present day city.

I have no accurate count, but it seems to me the sheer number of volcanoes and earthquakes endured on our planet over the last few years has significantly increased over the previous period. I hope I'm wrong about that.

A rather large earthquake over there could definitely set off a Volcano or two. I know last year Mt St Helens was stirring a bit. (or the year before?)

 

[Sharky.]

He's apparently been seen helping out at lots of sites all over the city, give that man a 12-pack 👍 And just look at the way he tosses that stone block aside!

 

[Legendary]

Death toll to 98 last I checked..

 

[SkylineObsession]

Okay, well this has just hit even closer to home for me.
One of my friends who i've known since primary school back in 1993 was nearly a victim of the quake, and his girlfriend and newborn kid are missing: http://www.3news.co.nz/Injured-Chri...-ones/tabid/423/articleID/199728/Default.aspx

I'd only just met her and his kid when they were down here in Dunedin a couple of weeks back.

But yeah, the thing that almost brings tears to my eyes is just seeing so many people helping out in rescue operations (people in suits, young and old, people of different ethnicities and so on) and the fact so many countries around the world have offered assistance - Australia, USA, Britain, Israel (!), Japan and so on. Makes me glad to live in such a well respected country.

 

[sumbrownkid]

My condolences to any member on the site who is affected by this catastrophe and to all of New Zealand.

 

[Neal]

Okay, well this has just hit even closer to home for me.
One of my friends who i've known since primary school back in 1993 was nearly a victim of the quake, and his girlfriend and newborn kid are missing: http://www.3news.co.nz/Injured-Chri...-ones/tabid/423/articleID/199728/Default.aspx

I'd only just met her and his kid when they were down here in Dunedin a couple of weeks back.

Words can't describe how terrible that is, have you been able to contact him?

 

[lpb-nissan-gt-r]

Sad times good luck to all those involved with rebuilding there lives, its going to be a long hual.

 

[SkylineObsession]

Words can't describe how terrible that is, have you been able to contact him?

Don't have any way to. Might ring his parents or send them a message on their Facebook pages or something.

 

[onearmbandit]

My fiancée and I live just outside the cordon zone in St Albans, and we just got power, water and the phone back on. Top effort to all the hard working guys and girls out there getting our city back up and going.