My city fell over.

[Sjael]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10671049

At 4:30AM a 7.1 earthquake hit my city.

Luckily (for me) it didn't hit my suburb too badly. No one I know got hurt, although everything in my father's glass factory was destroyed.

Hmrm.

Discuss. :confused:

[Kahrandras]

omfg blog post

just kidding man, that sucks totally

[marie pavie]

Glad you and your family are okay. Those 7's can be scary as hell!



ninja edit
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/2010atbj/us/index.html

[abcxyq]

Holy crap :eek:

[Goggalor]

7.1 is no ♥♥♥♥ing joke. I rode out a 7.2 when I was a teenager. Layed havoc all over the region. Interestingly, I was working for a family glass company as well. Thankfully they had insurance it was the weekend so nobody was hurt.

[Odra]

I hope your father's insurance pulls through, and that your family and relatives are safe.

Went through a 7.2 back in June so I can relate, considering the city moved about 30 inches south.

I still have some scraps from my collapsed porch.

[marie pavie]

Go find a buddy or two & go looking for ways you could help (if your home situation is ok).

[joeylawn]

Sjael, I'm glad you're OK. I've PM'ed SPUF member 'spacebug' - who also lives in NZ, but I don't know where. Haven't heard back from her yet. Hope she's ok also.

[Sjael]

Thanks for the support guys! :)

The initial shock was actually 7.4. Not that that makes too much difference.:p

I hope your father's insurance pulls through, and that your family and relatives are safe.

What insurance? :(

Luckily most of the panels sitting around the factory were rejects, although his Suzuki TL1000 that was sitting in the factory got totaled.

[>X2<]

Communities have to help each other in times like this. If your up to it, find you local emergencies services and get it some co-ordinated action.

[vtor67]

As much as you lost, be thankful you're alive, cause there are some who aren't.

[Axe on]

You are alive man, that's everything that matters now.

[joeylawn]

As much as you lost, be thankful you're alive, cause there are some who aren't.

I heard there were no fatalities, however.

[Sjael]

I heard there were no fatalities, however.

Yeah. Quite a testament to Christchurch's building codes and such that there were only a few serious injuries and no fatalities (reported.)

The biggest music shop in town had the facade of the building over the road fall into it. They keep all the most expensive instruments up high on the wall, out of reach of poor Irish children, so I can only imagine how much damage there'll be there. :eek:

[TheHeretic]

The biggest music shop in town had the facade of the building over the road fall into it. They keep all the most expensive instruments up high on the wall, out of reach of poor Irish children, so I can only imagine how much damage there'll be there. :eek:

You HAD to say that,didn't you?

I'm gonna have nightmares tonight.

Very glad to hear you and your family are alright though.

[Odra]

What insurance? :(


"Earthquake" and "Glass Factory" (Heck, just Glass factory by itself) in the same post doesn't usually paint a pretty picture for the workers, so I'd expect they get some sort of medical coverage for these situations, then there is the car insurance...

[Sjael]

"Earthquake" and "Glass Factory" (Heck, just Glass factory by itself) in the same post doesn't usually paint a pretty picture for the workers, so I'd expect they get some sort of medical coverage for these situations, then there is the car insurance...

Oh yeah, there is medical and everything. But cover against damage like this would be in the regions of tens of thousands of dollars, for a company that isn't quite breaking even, in a country that isn't particularly known for it's natural disasters.

The bike, however, was in the final stages of being rebuilt, and was thus uninsured. It got moved to the factory for safekeeping, ironically. :p

[Blackops]

Mother nature is crazy. I luckily just got side swiped by hurricane Earl this week over here in North Carolina. There was a front that pushed him out to sea which not only saved us but a lot of people up and down the coast.

Best regards to you and yours.

[rotNdude]

It sounds to me like all is OK regarding human life. Buildings can be rebuilt and from the reports, they are built to withstand a good earthquake without loss of life. Unlike this:

The quake did widespread damage along the Tibetan Plateau and a reported 500 people have died as a result. (http://cnmnewsnetwork.com/17742/china-earthquake-2010-death-toll-and-update/)

[AlphaFox]

Gotta admit... glass factory and earthquake = quite funny :D, the 'that is so typical' funny :P

[solidmoose]

I slept through it here in Wellington.

[Timerider42]

No one I know got hurt, although everything in my father's glass factory was destroyed.


Oh man, that would be the worst place to be stuck in during an earthquake.


The initial shock was actually 7.4. Not that that makes too much difference.:p

The Richter scale is logarithmic, so even a small increase in scale is a massive increase in power.

7.1 is equivalent to 45 metric megatons of TNT
7.4 is equivalent to 130 metric megatons of TNT :eek:

[Sjael]

Oh man, that would be the worst place to be stuck in during an earthquake.

Agreed. Thankfully it hit at 4:30am and there was no one in. :)

Gotta admit... glass factory and earthquake = quite funny :D, the 'that is so typical' funny :P

Quite right. What's particularly funny is that the only glass left intact was sitting on a mobile trolley ready to be loaded into vans tomorrow, so with this very horizontal earthquake, it just sat there rolling about. And that's most of the 'good' glass. The stuff that hadn't been rejected due to bad measurements etc.

[HL_Maniac]

Wow, pretty sure I was awake at that time, completely unaware what was happening on the other end of the country. Nice to hear no one was killed, and quite surprised too.

[Sjael]

Wow, pretty sure I was awake at that time, completely unaware what was happening on the other end of the country. Nice to hear no one was killed, and quite surprised too.

Aye. It was apparently felt as far up as Palmerston North, and it woke up a friend of mine down in Dunedin. :eek:

[spacebug]

I'm fine too. Relatively minor damage at our place as far as I can tell. Just got power back. Our suburb seems to have got off relatively lightly from what I'm hearing about some other spots. Just got power back, yay!

[bluz74]

Sorry to hear that OP, man that's sucky. Glad to hear that a lot of the damage is mostly infrastructure. A big "Stay safe!" to all that are affected!

[spacebug]

Wheeeeee!

http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/drums/mqz-drum.html

[spacebug]

The biggest music shop in town had the facade of the building over the road fall into it. They keep all the most expensive instruments up high on the wall, out of reach of poor Irish children, so I can only imagine how much damage there'll be there. :eek:

Which shop is that? Beggs? Rock Shop?

[Sjael]

The Rockshop.

[Injustpotato]

I live in Chicago, so I really have almost never expirienced an earthquake (One happened miles out of Chicago that was minor, I was also asleep). Kind of sucks that your family is supported on a broken glass factory, though.

[spacebug]

I'm so over the aftershocks!

[M270MLRS]

Sounds like rock and roll to me. :D

[Europhoria]

Glass factory...best place to be during a earthquake. :eek:

I hope your father's insurance pulls through, and that your family and relatives are safe.

Went through a 7.2 back in June so I can relate, considering the city moved about 30 inches south.

I still have some scraps from my collapsed porch.

30 inches! Wow, most continents take a few decades to move that far. :eek:

[Sjael]

Glass factory...best place to be during a earthquake. :eek:



30 inches! Wow, most continents take a few decades to move that far. :eek:

In this 'quake, the land on my side of the fault shifted just over 2 meters. Or 6 and a half feet, horizontally.


;)

Seriously messed up some train tracks. (http://static.stuff.co.nz/1283574555/632/4096632.jpg)

[Europhoria]

In this 'quake, the land on my side of the fault shifted just over 2 meters. Or 6 and a half feet, horizontally.


;)

Seriously messed up some train tracks. (http://static.stuff.co.nz/1283574555/632/4096632.jpg)

Hahaha, just a little kink in the tracks. It could be like a horizontal rollercoaster.

[spacebug]

Yeah! http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/7153/trackst.png

There was another one on the news that was like a big S

LOL you ninja edited your post with the same link as mine!

[Sjael]

I'm so over the aftershocks!

Seems like they're getting worse now.

Fun. :D





Not really. :(

[spacebug]

Yeah, I expect we'll be in for a long night :(

[Lusit]

Don't throw stones at glass fac-you know what, ♥♥♥♥ it.

[spacebug]

I feel like finding myself a nice safe place and making myself unconscious for the night :o

[Sjael]

I could lull you into a false sense of security and then make you unconscious if you really want. :|

[Mr_Fayce]

Hope you're all G, Sjael.

I'm in the Ilam area and I'm getting used to constant after shocks. Today has been a very 'interesting' day. >,>

There's been a few fires in town too, I could see some smoke from upstairs.

Not looking forward to going to sleep tonight, haha.

[spacebug]

LOL think I'll pass!

[S(p)am]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10671049

At 4:30AM a 7.1 earthquake hit my city.

Luckily (for me) it didn't hit my suburb too badly. No one I know got hurt, although everything in my father's glass factory was destroyed.

Hmrm.

Discuss. :confused:

OP at first I thought you were talking about something like MyMiniCity or you were trying to troll us.

Oh man was I wrong. D:

I'm glad I live in Pennsylvania, where no natural disasters naturally occur, cept for tornadoes (http://i55.tinypic.com/35872nr.png) (occasionally). And floods. And weird people.

I drew that. >_>

[xX_Renegade_Xx]

A guy posted on another forum, who lives 30km from where the earthquake hit, said according to his wife the damage is very bad so glad to see no fatalities after looking at some of the pictures on the news.

[Sjael]

LOL think I'll pass!
Are you sure? I'll be gentle? :P
OP at first I thought you were talking about something like MyMiniCity or you were trying to troll us.

Oh man was I wrong. D:

I'm glad I live in Pennsylvania, where no natural disasters naturally occur, cept for tornadoes (http://i55.tinypic.com/35872nr.png) (occasionally). And floods. And weird people.

I drew that. >_>
Hah, I had a related conversation with a guy I know in Caaaanaaadaaaa, that went something like this:
Me: My city fell over.
Him: My empire fell over.
Me: My city *actually* fell over.

That picture is fantastic. :D
+rep
A guy posted on another forum, who lives 30km from where the earthquake hit, said according to his wife the damage is very bad so glad to see no fatalities after looking at some of the pictures on the news.
Yeah, it's pretty bad in some places, and as the prime minister said, it's a miracle no one died. :eek:

[spacebug]

Sounds like he's in Christchurch too. Some suburbs seem to have taken a lot of damage, others only minimal. I think it depends on the consistency of the ground.

Urgh, aftershocks still, feeling woozey!

You know what bugged me the most about today? Sitting around the neighbour's car listening to the radio (as all the power was out), they were doing full-time dedicated broadcast on the earthquake, yet they still stuck in an ad break every 5 minutes :o

It made me rage hearing an advert for some kind of microwave breakfast. Although I can't complain, our neighbours invited us for a BBQ toast breakfast :D It's awesome how events like this bring people together.

[Mr_Fayce]

A guy posted on another forum, who lives 30km from where the earthquake hit, said according to his wife the damage is very bad so glad to see no fatalities after looking at some of the pictures on the news.

Yeah, we're all pretty lucky it hit at 4:30Am where everyone's asleep.

It's pretty insane though. I hope work is closed tomorrow ;D;D

[Sjael]

Yeah, we're all pretty lucky it hit at 4:30Am where everyone's asleep.

It's pretty insane though. I hope work is closed tomorrow ;D;D

Bah! I have to go down to the factory tomorrow and clean up a few tonnes of shattered glass. :mad:

[Mr_Fayce]

Bah! I have to go down to the factory tomorrow and clean up a few tonnes of shattered glass. :mad:

Yeah I work in a storage place where palates of stuff are stacked on racking... I really hope it isn't a mess lol.

Oh my #*(&@!:
http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/quakes/recent_quakes.html

[spacebug]

WOAH! http://drquigs.com/images/rsgallery/original/CHCH_IMG_3528.jpg

I think I'm going to be feeling pretty shocked when I start going about the city and seeing all this stuff first hand. There's practically no damage to be seen at my place.

[spacebug]

http://drquigs.com/images/rsgallery/original/CHCH0891.jpg Manchester Street broke.

[Lefty Loosy]

This is pretty crazy, glad you guys are ok.

[commanderhavoc]

I read about that yesterday, good god.
One of my friends lives in New Zeeland and I'm really worried about her now.

[Sjael]

WOAH! http://drquigs.com/images/rsgallery/original/CHCH_IMG_3528.jpg

I think I'm going to be feeling pretty shocked when I start going about the city and seeing all this stuff first hand. There's practically no damage to be seen at my place.

I know what you mean. I see all these photos of generic streets filled with rubble, and then I spy a street sign I recognise, and realise that if the quake hit 4 hours later, I would have been in that street at the time. :eek:

[Petrish]

breathtaking pictures guys, can't believe no one's hurt. Wishing good luck seems useless seeing you guys have loads of it :D

[spacebug]

Urgh, aftershocks at 5am...think I'll stay awake for a bit. Better than trying to sleep with adrenhaline pumping!

[Sjael]

Urgh, aftershocks at 5am...think I'll stay awake for a bit. Better than trying to sleep with adrenhaline pumping!

That's a shame - I've gotten rather accustomed to them, and didn't wake up once between 12am-10am.

Which may be a good development, as I read somewhere that they could last for up to a month. :eek:

Hopefully they won't. :(

[spacebug]

I managed to catch some rest later on this morning. I went under my desk with my sleeping bad, a pillow and a book :D

[spacebug]

We went down to Bexley today to check on my parent's rental place.

Most of the way there, there was not much to be seen. Patches of different coloured tiles on roofs, little cracks in roads and footpaths.

But as soon as we turned off Anzac Drive, the first thing we saw was this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXm-RzSIGWA

The grass is all swampy, water in the gutters. Around every lamppost looked like this:
http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/967/dscf1195.jpg
where sand and water had just come pushing their way up from underground!

Also at a lot of the curb corners:
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/2908/dscf1215j.jpg

There was a crack in the footpath with yellow water pouring out :eek:

Apparently the water was 2 feet deep pretty much straight after the quake, it went away, but it's come back to filling all the gutters just from the tide coming in. And it smells faintly of sewerage.

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/5425/dscf1198x.jpg
http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/3739/dscf1202s.jpg

[spacebug]

My local chippie! (http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/9821/dscf1229y.jpg) :eek:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[Ulysses S Grant]

...although everything in my father's glass factory was destroyed.
I must have a sick sense of humor because I found this hilarious.

[Mr_Fayce]

Had trouble getting to sleep, like 3 minishocks woke me up.

-_-

[spacebug]

It's weird. Sending people texts saying "How are you? I am fine." And for once it actually means something!

[Sjael]

It's weird. Sending people texts saying "How are you? I am fine." And for once it actually means something!
Heh.

My phone went flat when I was already in bed the night before the quake, and I figured I'd just charge it up the next day. Too bad the quake took the power out. My poor mother nearly had a heart attack when I didn't answer the phone in the morning. :eek:

I sent my best friend a text saying "Are you alive?" He replied with "If you could call the state I'm in living."

[scrlk]

That story did really rumble the world didn't it?

[GirlPower23]

Honestly if cities were more pre-pared for earthquakes things like this wouldn't happen. A 7.1 is pretty strong but there are many cities prepared for them and take nearly no damage what so ever. However most countries including the USA don't think about it.. and well you see what happens. Oh well just saying.. make more earthquake resistant buildings and so forth. Japan is a good example.. not saying an earthquake can't devastate their country but for the most part a 7.1 isn't going to be a disaster.

[Amy]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10671049

At 4:30AM a 7.1 earthquake hit my city.

Luckily (for me) it didn't hit my suburb too badly. No one I know got hurt, although everything in my father's glass factory was destroyed.

Hmrm.

Discuss. :confused:

At least you weren't in the Titanic during this...

[Sjael]

Honestly if cities were more pre-pared for earthquakes things like this wouldn't happen. A 7.1 is pretty strong but there are many cities prepared for them and take nearly no damage what so ever. However most countries including the USA don't think about it.. and well you see what happens. Oh well just saying.. make more earthquake resistant buildings and so forth. Japan is a good example.. not saying an earthquake can't devastate their country but for the most part a 7.1 isn't going to be a disaster.

Just a couple of things.
First, Christchurch has a lot of historical buildings, dating back to when the town was established in 1848. That's where most of the structural damage has happened. Our modern buildings are very resilient; the null death toll is a testament to that fact.
Second, the vast majority of the real damage is to the 'infrastructure;' the land has shifted up to 4 meters at the fault, and roads and rails and everything have been torn up. I can't come up with many good ways to stop the land surging up and down by meters at a time - that amount of force is probably still able to ruin anything fancy we can put in the ground. :eek:

Just saying.

[Sjael]

That story did really rumble the world didn't it?

That was shockingly bad.

[GirlPower23]

Just a couple of things.
First, Christchurch has a lot of historical buildings, dating back to when the town was established in 1848. That's where most of the structural damage has happened. Our modern buildings are very resilient; the null death toll is a testament to that fact.
Second, the vast majority of the real damage is to the 'infrastructure;' the land has shifted up to 4 meters at the fault, and roads and rails and everything have been torn up. I can't come up with many good ways to stop the land surging up and down by meters at a time - that amount of force is probably still able to ruin anything fancy we can put in the ground. :eek:

Just saying.

It was more of a generalization, my statement was a broad look at all the earthquakes recently and the damage they've caused. =P

[spacebug]

Honestly if cities were more pre-pared for earthquakes things like this wouldn't happen.

Have you SEEN some of the pictures of holes ripped in the ground, buildings torn in half etc?

7.1 is a very significant amount of force. No amount of preparation can eliminate danger and damage.

[joeylawn]

Sounds like he's in Christchurch too. Some suburbs seem to have taken a lot of damage, others only minimal. I think it depends on the consistency of the ground.

Urgh, aftershocks still, feeling woozey!

You know what bugged me the most about today? Sitting around the neighbour's car listening to the radio (as all the power was out), they were doing full-time dedicated broadcast on the earthquake, yet they still stuck in an ad break every 5 minutes :o

It made me rage hearing an advert for some kind of microwave breakfast. Although I can't complain, our neighbours invited us for a BBQ toast breakfast :D It's awesome how events like this bring people together.

I would call up the radio station and complain. :mad:

[spacebug]

There were adverts for businesses in Christchurch too!

"Open today and every other day! Come on in!"

Tempting to try and do them for false advertising! :D

[masta121]

Lol, your town is called Christchurch? That's kind of funny. But yeah, quakes suck. Hope you rebuild fast.

[spacebug]

I wrote a bloggy thing about it, in case anyone is interested. http://spacebug.50webs.com/blog.html

[>X2<]

I wrote a bloggy thing about it, in case anyone is interested. http://spacebug.50webs.com/blog.html How is the water supply and sanitation and has that big storm front been through?

[spacebug]

Most of the city has water coming out of the taps, and it _looks_ clean, but we're boiling it for 3 minutes in case there is sewerage getting into it.

The wind came up last night, a warm dry wind so far and not overly strong at all! It will probably swing round to the south and start raining later today.

[>X2<]

Has the army setup a camp/s for the homeless?

And what about food distribution, medical help etc... has the government been on the ball.

[spacebug]

I don't know what the army are doing, although they're surely helping out somehow.

There are three Civil Defence places where people are staying, and other people are staying with friends. Salvation Army are providing food to those shelters, as well as other groups. Work and Income have opened some offices for people to go if they need urgent assistance. The hospital is still open (it's got backup generators and those fancy floating foundation things). Also there have been tankers providing water in regions without (although they didn't do a great job of telling people about them.

Yeah, the government seem to be doing a pretty good job overall. I was really impressed with the speed they got the power and water back up.

Also, my floor has been shaking for the last minute :|

[Mr_Fayce]

To be honest, I don't think we could have handled it any better then we have.

It's been fantastic.

REALLY SICK OF THESE AFTERSHOCKS THOUGH. ;S

[masta121]

Anyone else find it terribly ironic that a terrible earthquake strikes a town called Christchurch? Not to downplay the seriousness, but it is pretty ironic.

[spacebug]

NO TF2! (http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/9544/notf2.jpg)

[Sjael]

NO TF2! (http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/9544/notf2.jpg)

Well that explains the extension to the state of emergency. :p

[tsmike]

Wow, that's scary. My sister was in NZ only a few weeks ago on holiday. That was one of the places she visited.

[Sjael]

Arg, just got three of the most powerful aftershocks yet in quick succession.

It's starting to get old.

[spacebug]

Last hour, 5.2, 4.0, 5.4, and the one after that felt even bigger...yeah. :|

[spacebug]

Ah ha hahahaha! http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=315724405

[xX_Renegade_Xx]

Ah ha hahahaha! http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=315724405

lol

Your post on the Worms Reloaded forum made me chuckle too.

Let's hope the aftershocks are gone soon.

[Pebr]

I was about to tell you to stop watching Inception.

[Europhoria]

NO TF2! (http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/9544/notf2.jpg)

Robin Walker: Gabe, the earthquake in New Zealand has destroyed our primary hat manufacturing plant!
Gabe: :eek:
LOCK
EVERYTHING
DOWN!!!

[spacebug]

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFfffffffffffffffffffffffff ffffffff

seriously need somewhere better to sleep!

[ledbelly]

i've always thought of new zealand as being the perfect place to live. it has a great climate, that's not too hot or too cold, and there isn't anything venomous to bite you.

this earthquake has gone and spoilt it a little. :/

[spacebug]

I wish I could have got a photo of it...I spotted a billboard next to the Waltham overbridge that says "Experience your city at up to 90% off". :D

I think it's a very badly timed advert that was put up before the quakes...I laughed and laughed and laughed!

Anyone else find it terribly ironic that a terrible earthquake strikes a town called Christchurch? Not to downplay the seriousness, but it is pretty ironic.

Of course, the other way of looking at it is - an earthquake of 7.1 (that's the same magnitude as the Haiti earthquake) struck next to a city of 400,000 people. Miraculously, nobody was killed. The city had the fortunate name of Christchurch ;)

[Sjael]

Happened again today, but much worse this time - a lot closer to the city, and right in the middle of the day. ._.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4688231/65-dead-in-devastating-Christchurch-quake

None of my friends (all of whom work in the city center where all the damage is) are responding to my calls/messages. Starting to get a little antsy. :|

[Europhoria]

Wow 65 dead. And to think we kicked up a big stink over 10 dead in the QLD floods. All the best for your friends.

[spacebug]

Take two. It's not going to be fun waiting for the casualty lists :(

[Lefty Loosy]

You guys just can't catch a break. Hoping you and yours will be ok.

[Reebdoog]

Not good, I was there a few weeks ago and it was still a mess from the last time around. I image all the buildings there were half broken are not totally flay. Feel sorry for you guys. Hope you don't find too many more dead.

[Star Wolf DX]

:(

I hope you both get in contact with all friends and family asap.

[charlysotelo2]

Meh, I was only about 40 miles away from the epicenter of the easter earthquake last year. It wasnt too bad.

[spacebug]

Meh, I was only about 40 miles away from the epicenter of the easter earthquake last year. It wasnt too bad.

What? What Easter earthquake? Also http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4688231/65-dead-in-devastating-Christchurch-quake

[HL_Maniac]

Been waiting all day for someone to make a thread on this. I knew there are at least a couple of Kiwis on the forums..

I'm safe up here on the North Island. Wouldn't much fancy being down South right now..

[spacebug]

Wouldn't mind being somewhere with plumbing right now.

[tibetanpunk]

Meh, I was only about 40 miles away from the epicenter of the easter earthquake last year. It wasnt too bad.

'Meh'?? Maybe try having a little empathy for the loved ones of the deceased and respect for the people who have lost their lives...

I hope your friends/family are ok OP. Hopefully it is just that the services have been disrupted.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12534662 :(

[spacebug]

http://geonet.org.nz/earthquake/drums/mqz-drum.html

What's not common knowledge is that you don't just get a half a dozen aftershocks, you get a LOT. I'd guess maybe a hundred from today's. And today's quake was itself an aftershock of the quake we had in September, of which there have been something like 5,000.

[2SeeKU]

I live in Aus, so for my sheepish brothers, all the best mate to you and your family.

[notavirus.exe]

I hope you guys/gals are alright down there.

I don't like how the media is naming this the "christ church quake". I'm sure the area where it happened has a name, not christ church. Stuff like that really irritates me, if your a reporter, take 6 minutes to find out the name and make an accurate report.

[Kahrandras]

this place is called christchurch

the city of Christchurch

your post just got funnier

[Moe45673]

In Toronto we had a quake last summer that was 5.0 at the epicenter, which was about 4-500 km away. It was scary as hell. I can't imagine what a 7.2 is like. I know every point on the richter scale is actually a huge difference, so wow. All the best to you down there.

[iBMe]

damn those underground reptilians.

[marie pavie]

The paper is saying there are still many people trapped.

[xX_Renegade_Xx]

Wow 65 dead.

Will get a lot higher I think from some of the reports I've read, lots of people trapped.

Hoping you and your family/friends are ok OP.

[rotNdude]

Happened again today, but much worse this time - a lot closer to the city, and right in the middle of the day. ._.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4688231/65-dead-in-devastating-Christchurch-quake

None of my friends (all of whom work in the city center where all the damage is) are responding to my calls/messages. Starting to get a little antsy. :|

The damage may have taken out the wireless infrastructure. Think positive.

[xboxer]

Don't worry. Help is on the way from your friendly neighbours. ;)

http://www.scdf.gov.sg/content/scdf_internet/en/others/lionheart/personnel_deployment.html

The 2nd flight should be departing in 2 hours.

[tibetanpunk]

Just to inject a little empathy and compassion into this thread (for those lacking)...

Before you make a joke about this situation, consider how you would feel if your loved ones were crushed alive, or trapped and suffocating under fallen down buildings...

Then consider how you would feel if you saw someone making light of the situation for their own amusement...

[bdmason]

Most of the city has water coming out of the taps, and it _looks_ clean, but we're boiling it for 3 minutes in case there is sewerage getting into it.


I thought spacebugs thrive in sewage?

[Kiya]

I hope everyone you guys in the centre of this tragedy know and love is ok - more I hope the rescue workers manage to reach everyone they can who is currently trapped.

My thoughts are with you, please keep posting and keeping us up to date.

[spacebug]

I thought spacebugs thrive in sewage?

That was last earthquake. :| This one, we have no water or sewerage. Or to be more precise, there's plenty but it's not where it's meant to be. Our street had water pipes bursting all the way along it, water and sand came pouring out all day yesterday and it's a safe bet that there's sewerage in there too.

Put some pots and pans out last night to catch rain water, but it didn't rain for very long :(

Using the yard as a bathroom, to avoid putting more sewerage into the street.

Hopefully water tankers and porta-loos will be forthcoming, but there are more urgent needs in other parts of the city right now.

[BS_1]

Just to inject a little empathy and compassion into this thread (for those lacking)...

Before you make a joke about this situation, consider how you would feel if your loved ones were crushed alive, or trapped and suffocating under fallen down buildings...

Then consider how you would feel if you saw someone making light of the situation for their own amusement...
I agree. I was going through seeing jokes and was like "Really?".

Sorry to hear about your city, again! Hopefully you can all get through this.

[Kiya]

Apparently there is a UK rescue team - 62 people and nine tonnes of equipment, on it's way, though because of the distance involved they won't be with you guys until Thursday :/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12540471

[joeylawn]

Take two. It's not going to be fun waiting for the casualty lists :(

Well, I'm glad you're OK anyway (and Sjeal also...) :)

[bdmason]

I just want to apologise to all New Zealanders. You see, last night I had an extra helping of beans, and... well, sometimes things get out of control and things like this happen. I hope you all understand. :o

[truckspond]

LOL!

Seriously: a 7.4 is no laughing matter! I am glad you're OK

[bdmason]

Why do the first few pages of posts have a post date of 9-3-2010 if the New Zealand quake just happened?

:confused::confused::confused::confused:

EDIT: Just figured out this thread was necro'd with a DIFFERENT quake in similar area.

[CTRL ALT DEL !]

I wish everyone the best and hope the rescue missions go well.

I am pleased with the quick reactions of so many coutries to send help to save lives. My deepest sympathies are with everyone who has lost friends, family, homes and belonging.

EDIT/Reply: This is an aftershock of that quake.

[bdmason]

I wish everyone the best and hope the rescue missions go well.

I am pleased with the quick reactions of so many coutries to send help to save lives. My deepest sympathies are with everyone who has lost friends, family, homes and belonging.

EDIT/Reply: This is an aftershock of that quake.

Yeah, I just figured that out.

[Kibblesman]

Good to hear that you're okay.

Hopefully you're looking on the bright side of things. If you're not, let me help you, you still have a computer that you can do fun stuff on.

[spacebug]

Thinks OP should edit the first post to include info about the new quake. It is an aftershock to the first, but at only 5km deep and pretty much in the city, it was devestating.

[stillmatic07]

Has there been an increase in epic earthquakes lately or am I going insane?

[spacebug]

It's amazing the way some people react.

There's this guy who reckons he can predict earthquakes, but it seems he edits his blogs after big ones hit the news. Affectionately known as "moon man". Up until yesterday he seemed to still be predicting something on 20th March...I know this because a lot of paranoid people were following his claims after the first event. Now of course he claims he was predicting something around 19th-22nd or something. All his fans are coming and saying things like "Moon Man predicted it, you should have listened to him!" It makes me rather angry. Of course these people weren't anywhere to be seen last week saying "beware earthquakes"...

:mad:

[Bud042]

Isn't uh...supernaught? over there? Any word from them?

[marie pavie]

He's almost on the other side of the world, I think spacebug is our contact girl.

[Bud042]

Oh, hm, hard to keep track of y'all

[Reebdoog]

Luckily all my mates were in Queenstown when it hit and not back in ChCh. >70 confirmed dead and rising. Not good at all.

[joeylawn]

Isn't uh...supernaught? over there? Any word from them?

Umm, nope.

Unless the NZ earthquake affected Estonia....

And spacebug, I was worried about you....

[DAWeeE1]

Has there been an increase in epic earthquakes lately or am I going insane?

You're not insane.

[ImBack87]

ChristChurch? Oh the irony

[xboxer]

I also heard Singapore soldiers on exercise in NZ have also been mobilized to help out.

My thoughts are with your country at this difficult time.

[marie pavie]

A bbc vid (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12555948).

[Crimson Rising]

And not a single person has said anything about Joplin Missouri being knocked over...

[dibarra2004]

And not a single person has said anything about Joplin Missouri being knocked over...

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1902343

[Snorkel]

So...why don't you make a thread about Joplin?

2 or 3 SPUFers actually live here, so it's natural that we wanted to talk about the situation.

[joeylawn]

yes, there was a thread on both the Joplin tornado, and the April 25-28 Tornado Outbreak.

[Ultima V|RUZ]

And not a single person has said anything about Joplin Missouri being knocked over...

Don't bump old threads.