Are our kiwi buddies OK?
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For anyone that's interested, here's a time lapse map plot showing epicentre location, strength, and depth of the main event plus all the after shocks to date. Quite fascinating really....
Christchurch Quake Map
Christchurch Quake Map
Has anyone heard from Jac Mac? Last post here 8/19, last post on CC 8/16.
Both are 2 weeks before the quake, so let's hope he's just on holiday somewhere, or kicking some A$$ on a racecourse somewhere and having too much fun to stop!
Doug
Both are 2 weeks before the quake, so let's hope he's just on holiday somewhere, or kicking some A$$ on a racecourse somewhere and having too much fun to stop!
Doug
Jac Macs place is miles away from the earthquake zone, so he's OK from that point of view.
I just tried to phone him but the phone seems disconnected. I know he was having computer problems. Maybe there's a telecoms problem down there somewhere.....
I know I'll hear from him eventually, I've got a heap of his stuff stored in my workshop. Untouched by the earthquake. I might have to sell it off to defray storage costs! LOL.
Normal life is starting to resume for those of us not seriously affected by the quake. Don't have to boil drinking water any more and sewerage services are operating normally for the majority.
Cost of the quake is estimated at $4b which by NZ standards is massive. NZ population is about 4m, ie less than many cities around the world......
I just tried to phone him but the phone seems disconnected. I know he was having computer problems. Maybe there's a telecoms problem down there somewhere.....
I know I'll hear from him eventually, I've got a heap of his stuff stored in my workshop. Untouched by the earthquake. I might have to sell it off to defray storage costs! LOL.
Normal life is starting to resume for those of us not seriously affected by the quake. Don't have to boil drinking water any more and sewerage services are operating normally for the majority.
Cost of the quake is estimated at $4b which by NZ standards is massive. NZ population is about 4m, ie less than many cities around the world......
Just read on the BBC that you guys had a 5.1 magnitude aftershock yesterday. Hope it starts to quieten down soon.
We are starting to get our sea legs, fortunately I live about 160km(100miles) from Christchurch. The Christchurch Quake Map is a real eye opener. We have had one of the wetter winters for years and a huge amount of the damage has come from the soil turning to liquid with the quake. In places there has been 4m (12ft) movement of the earth. We have had strong building codes for 40 or more years to with stand winds and quakes. We aren't known as the "shaky isles" for our finanial position, more being on the edge of the pacific rim of fire.
Life is getting back to normal now. But there is still a lot of demolition, cleaning up, and rebuilding to be done. Here is a summary/overview of the event and its effects cut and pasted from A city tested - and passing well | Stuff.co.nz (There is a passing comparison in this article with the Napier earthquake. In 1931, New Zealand's deadliest earthquake devastated the cities of Napier and Hastings. At least 256 people died in the magnitude 7.8 earthquake).
"More than most disasters, an earthquake finds a city out.
A severe shake tests infrastructure, examines emergency responses, exposes planning decisions and most of all asks searching questions of people.
Canterbury, in its first week after the tremor, which struck at 4.35am last Saturday, has passed many of these tests with flying colours. It can pat itself on the back – but not too hard.
A week after one of the biggest jolts to strike a modern, populated city anywhere in the world let alone New Zealand, Canterbury authorities have managed to restore most of the services usually taken for granted.
By tomorrow, just about everybody still living in their own home in Canterbury should have water and power. Given the extent of the breakages and outages, that is some achievement. Most homes had water and power by Monday night and by Tuesday 90 per cent of Christchurch residents were able to flush their toilets. By yesterday, only 11 streets were without water.
The airport inspected its runways immediately and within hours aircraft were taking off again. The Port of Lyttelton was working again on Sunday afternoon despite up to $50 million of damage to wharves and storage areas.
As expected, Canterbury people pitched in and did what they could for themselves and their neighbours and friends. Welfare centres set up on Saturday were still busy mid-week with about 280 people in occupation – out of the city of 360,000 or so.
People like bungy king AJ Hackett went ahead with their weddings in the ruined city. Mike Bird didn't have much choice. He had already tattooed September 4 on his arm.
By Wednesday, the chooks had started laying again and by Thursday some schools had reopened.
Not all the memories were bad. Hours after the quake, writer Joe Bennett found fellow citizens of Lyttelton in good spirits. "Everyone was talking in the sunshine. There was a lot of laughter. It didn't seem to be the nervous laughter of survivors. It was cheerful, convivial. It felt like a holiday," he wrote.
In the aftermath, Wayne Alexander, of Christchurch, said: "You're never more in love with life and that's what I like about it. Whenever you face loss you realise on the other side of it what you've got."
BUT FIRST there was terror. For many the noise was deafening as windows rattled fit to break, glass and crockery crashed to the floor and chimneys and tiles toppled. In beach suburbs the first panicked thought was for a possible tsunami. Those with access to vehicles caused a traffic jam as they headed away from the coast. Without power many could not open their automatic garage doors.
Annette Preen, on her own in her new house in Bexley, felt trapped as she tried to kick down her security door. "I thought I was going to die." When she made it outside she fell headfirst into the wet sand piled at her front door.
"I fell flat on my face and the silt being so heavy I couldn't get out."
For Chris Piper, 18, of St Martins, it was the scariest moment of his life. He was in a sleepout behind his family's home and was woken painfully when a television set fell on his feet.
"I threw my girlfriend on the lawn and then went to the house in barefeet and my underwear to see tiles and the chimney crashing down. I thought the whole house was going to collapse. I thought my whole family was going to die in front of me."
Paraplegic Renee Hayman was lying in her room at the Kate Sheppard Hospital in Avonside. "I felt quite helpless, really," she says.
At dawn, Christchurch turned on a pearler of a day. Residents could survey the damage in the light of warm, bright sunshine. Another godsend perhaps.
Supermarkets were some of the first businesses to reopen. By 10.40am, St Martins New World had cleaned up aisles smelling of vinegar and alcohol and had tills running on generator power. By midday power was on and business was as busy as a Christmas Eve, owner Russell McKenzie said.
Other supermarkets around town faced panic buying and were soon out of bottled water, milk, bread, batteries and candles. As it became clear that starvation was going to be averted, the panic subsided. Frantic buying at the city's service stations also abated as it became clear fuel supplies were not threatened.
Every city has its low-lifes and a few took advantage of deserted houses and businesses to help themselves. Some were caught, including two burglars masquerading as tradesmen. But there was no looting and overall crime was down, police said. However, domestic violence spiked as strained nerves and arguments escalated.
The rally happened quickly. By mid-week the army of volunteers, recruited partly from students at Canterbury's two universities and from the Christchurch Polytechnic, had swelled to over 1000. Many others had already done their bit. As Janet Derham prepared to evacuate her ravaged Bexley home on Monday, a woman from Avonhead and a student arrived from nowhere to help her pack. Age Concern had many offers from people offering to help old people clean up.
Mostly, the speedy restoration of services was due to the efforts of well organised crews of fixers – the linesmen, the cable jointers, the excavator drivers, the drainlayers, the plumbers, roofers and builders. They were people like Ed Askew, a cable jointer for Orion, the operator of the Christchurch power network, who worked continuous 14-hour days despite his own two-storey home being devastated.
Orion engineer Steve MacDonald was at work at midday on Saturday despite the destruction of his home at Brooklands.
As a radio announcer put it: "Good people doing the right things."
Although the aftershocks kept coming, it was important to look around occasionally for a reminder that Christchurch was not levelled and most of it looked absurdly normal.
A stranger driving into Christchurch on Monday, might well have wondered what all the fuss was about. The visitor would have seen the rubbish collectors emptying the city's red refuse bins, heavy traffic on intact roads and cyclists and joggers out enjoying a sunny day.
Damage was not instantly visible. The sharp-eyed would have seen tarpaulins covering holes where chimneys had been, but would have been hard-pressed to see much more.
Those inclined to scoff at reports about the severity of the quake were in for a rude shock in the central city where a different picture emerged. Police officers and army staff were manning cordons and checkpoints. The streets were crawling with men in white hard hats and orange vests carrying clipboards. Demolition crews were already working. Orange cones, temporary fences, emergency tape and orange netting screened hard-hit buildings, many with jagged cracks and bits missing. A walk around town, those parts that were accessible, would have revealed cracked towers, ruptured walls and piles of rubble.
The Christchurch earthquake will be remembered for the massive damage it caused rather than the people it killed.
The timing of the first 30-second jolt on Saturday was incredibly fortunate. The Napier earthquake hit about 10.30am on a busy shopping day. In Christchurch the streets were empty of traffic and people. Nobody was shopping and few cars were parked under the many brick facades in the city.
Nobody was on the footpath outside the apartments of the former Old Normal School building in Montreal Street when a massive chimney came tumbling on to the asphalt.
Nobody was sleeping in the guest bed at the historic Godley House, in Diamond Harbour, when the fireplace fell on to the bed.
Nobody was on Bridle Path Rd near Lyttelton when a car-sized boulder plummeted from its perch further up the hill. Architect Sir Miles Warren was not sitting in his usual chair at his historic homestead Ohinetahi when stone blocks landed on it.
In the Hornby coolstores and supermarket distribution centres, no-one was working when nine-metre-high racking loaded with heavy goods such as alcohol collapsed. The resulting mess in some warehouses was three storeys high but nobody was buried underneath.
Former Christchurch man John Mander, a structural engineering professor teaching at Texas A and M University, says "of any place in the world this would probably be the best prepared".
He refers to the more stringent building standards imposed in New Zealand after the Napier earthquake and to the general awareness gained from living in an earthquake-prone country.
THERE is no doubt Canterbury responded well. A well- educated and resourceful population containing an army of skill and brawn, backed by a trained and honest central and local government, civil service, police force and other emergency services made all the difference. Canterbury is not Haiti, which showed poverty kills.
Modern technology also helped. Earthquake-proof cellphone towers meant people could check on each other and call for help.
Valerie Walsh, for instance, was stuck in her twisted Bexley house which was slowly filling in the dark with silty water. She sent a text to a friend who sounded the alert.
The quake and its aftermath will be studied and analysed for years to come. For New Zealand it is a resounding wake-up call.
For Cantabrians, whether they suffered damage or not, the earthquake of September 4 was a shattering experience never to be forgotten. The Press"
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"More than most disasters, an earthquake finds a city out.
A severe shake tests infrastructure, examines emergency responses, exposes planning decisions and most of all asks searching questions of people.
Canterbury, in its first week after the tremor, which struck at 4.35am last Saturday, has passed many of these tests with flying colours. It can pat itself on the back – but not too hard.
A week after one of the biggest jolts to strike a modern, populated city anywhere in the world let alone New Zealand, Canterbury authorities have managed to restore most of the services usually taken for granted.
By tomorrow, just about everybody still living in their own home in Canterbury should have water and power. Given the extent of the breakages and outages, that is some achievement. Most homes had water and power by Monday night and by Tuesday 90 per cent of Christchurch residents were able to flush their toilets. By yesterday, only 11 streets were without water.
The airport inspected its runways immediately and within hours aircraft were taking off again. The Port of Lyttelton was working again on Sunday afternoon despite up to $50 million of damage to wharves and storage areas.
As expected, Canterbury people pitched in and did what they could for themselves and their neighbours and friends. Welfare centres set up on Saturday were still busy mid-week with about 280 people in occupation – out of the city of 360,000 or so.
People like bungy king AJ Hackett went ahead with their weddings in the ruined city. Mike Bird didn't have much choice. He had already tattooed September 4 on his arm.
By Wednesday, the chooks had started laying again and by Thursday some schools had reopened.
Not all the memories were bad. Hours after the quake, writer Joe Bennett found fellow citizens of Lyttelton in good spirits. "Everyone was talking in the sunshine. There was a lot of laughter. It didn't seem to be the nervous laughter of survivors. It was cheerful, convivial. It felt like a holiday," he wrote.
In the aftermath, Wayne Alexander, of Christchurch, said: "You're never more in love with life and that's what I like about it. Whenever you face loss you realise on the other side of it what you've got."
BUT FIRST there was terror. For many the noise was deafening as windows rattled fit to break, glass and crockery crashed to the floor and chimneys and tiles toppled. In beach suburbs the first panicked thought was for a possible tsunami. Those with access to vehicles caused a traffic jam as they headed away from the coast. Without power many could not open their automatic garage doors.
Annette Preen, on her own in her new house in Bexley, felt trapped as she tried to kick down her security door. "I thought I was going to die." When she made it outside she fell headfirst into the wet sand piled at her front door.
"I fell flat on my face and the silt being so heavy I couldn't get out."
For Chris Piper, 18, of St Martins, it was the scariest moment of his life. He was in a sleepout behind his family's home and was woken painfully when a television set fell on his feet.
"I threw my girlfriend on the lawn and then went to the house in barefeet and my underwear to see tiles and the chimney crashing down. I thought the whole house was going to collapse. I thought my whole family was going to die in front of me."
Paraplegic Renee Hayman was lying in her room at the Kate Sheppard Hospital in Avonside. "I felt quite helpless, really," she says.
At dawn, Christchurch turned on a pearler of a day. Residents could survey the damage in the light of warm, bright sunshine. Another godsend perhaps.
Supermarkets were some of the first businesses to reopen. By 10.40am, St Martins New World had cleaned up aisles smelling of vinegar and alcohol and had tills running on generator power. By midday power was on and business was as busy as a Christmas Eve, owner Russell McKenzie said.
Other supermarkets around town faced panic buying and were soon out of bottled water, milk, bread, batteries and candles. As it became clear that starvation was going to be averted, the panic subsided. Frantic buying at the city's service stations also abated as it became clear fuel supplies were not threatened.
Every city has its low-lifes and a few took advantage of deserted houses and businesses to help themselves. Some were caught, including two burglars masquerading as tradesmen. But there was no looting and overall crime was down, police said. However, domestic violence spiked as strained nerves and arguments escalated.
The rally happened quickly. By mid-week the army of volunteers, recruited partly from students at Canterbury's two universities and from the Christchurch Polytechnic, had swelled to over 1000. Many others had already done their bit. As Janet Derham prepared to evacuate her ravaged Bexley home on Monday, a woman from Avonhead and a student arrived from nowhere to help her pack. Age Concern had many offers from people offering to help old people clean up.
Mostly, the speedy restoration of services was due to the efforts of well organised crews of fixers – the linesmen, the cable jointers, the excavator drivers, the drainlayers, the plumbers, roofers and builders. They were people like Ed Askew, a cable jointer for Orion, the operator of the Christchurch power network, who worked continuous 14-hour days despite his own two-storey home being devastated.
Orion engineer Steve MacDonald was at work at midday on Saturday despite the destruction of his home at Brooklands.
As a radio announcer put it: "Good people doing the right things."
Although the aftershocks kept coming, it was important to look around occasionally for a reminder that Christchurch was not levelled and most of it looked absurdly normal.
A stranger driving into Christchurch on Monday, might well have wondered what all the fuss was about. The visitor would have seen the rubbish collectors emptying the city's red refuse bins, heavy traffic on intact roads and cyclists and joggers out enjoying a sunny day.
Damage was not instantly visible. The sharp-eyed would have seen tarpaulins covering holes where chimneys had been, but would have been hard-pressed to see much more.
Those inclined to scoff at reports about the severity of the quake were in for a rude shock in the central city where a different picture emerged. Police officers and army staff were manning cordons and checkpoints. The streets were crawling with men in white hard hats and orange vests carrying clipboards. Demolition crews were already working. Orange cones, temporary fences, emergency tape and orange netting screened hard-hit buildings, many with jagged cracks and bits missing. A walk around town, those parts that were accessible, would have revealed cracked towers, ruptured walls and piles of rubble.
The Christchurch earthquake will be remembered for the massive damage it caused rather than the people it killed.
The timing of the first 30-second jolt on Saturday was incredibly fortunate. The Napier earthquake hit about 10.30am on a busy shopping day. In Christchurch the streets were empty of traffic and people. Nobody was shopping and few cars were parked under the many brick facades in the city.
Nobody was on the footpath outside the apartments of the former Old Normal School building in Montreal Street when a massive chimney came tumbling on to the asphalt.
Nobody was sleeping in the guest bed at the historic Godley House, in Diamond Harbour, when the fireplace fell on to the bed.
Nobody was on Bridle Path Rd near Lyttelton when a car-sized boulder plummeted from its perch further up the hill. Architect Sir Miles Warren was not sitting in his usual chair at his historic homestead Ohinetahi when stone blocks landed on it.
In the Hornby coolstores and supermarket distribution centres, no-one was working when nine-metre-high racking loaded with heavy goods such as alcohol collapsed. The resulting mess in some warehouses was three storeys high but nobody was buried underneath.
Former Christchurch man John Mander, a structural engineering professor teaching at Texas A and M University, says "of any place in the world this would probably be the best prepared".
He refers to the more stringent building standards imposed in New Zealand after the Napier earthquake and to the general awareness gained from living in an earthquake-prone country.
THERE is no doubt Canterbury responded well. A well- educated and resourceful population containing an army of skill and brawn, backed by a trained and honest central and local government, civil service, police force and other emergency services made all the difference. Canterbury is not Haiti, which showed poverty kills.
Modern technology also helped. Earthquake-proof cellphone towers meant people could check on each other and call for help.
Valerie Walsh, for instance, was stuck in her twisted Bexley house which was slowly filling in the dark with silty water. She sent a text to a friend who sounded the alert.
The quake and its aftermath will be studied and analysed for years to come. For New Zealand it is a resounding wake-up call.
For Cantabrians, whether they suffered damage or not, the earthquake of September 4 was a shattering experience never to be forgotten. The Press"
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As Russ has pointed out I was well out of the way, reason for lack of contact was change of Wireless system & phone at my end & general slackness on my part in getting up to speed again--get a lot done without a phone tho
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My 80+ year old mum arrived back in ChCh on the saturday night flight from OZ approx 20hrs after the quake & reckoned it felt surreal to find no traffic @ airport & had to walk to their hotel etc.
I see Mr Nobles sense of humour has survived! take a lot more to shift that!!
I will send new email data etc to Randy, Russ & co later in week when I get a handle on this new tech.......you can teach some old dogs new tricks...slowly!
.My 80+ year old mum arrived back in ChCh on the saturday night flight from OZ approx 20hrs after the quake & reckoned it felt surreal to find no traffic @ airport & had to walk to their hotel etc.
I see Mr Nobles sense of humour has survived! take a lot more to shift that!!
I will send new email data etc to Randy, Russ & co later in week when I get a handle on this new tech.......you can teach some old dogs new tricks...slowly!
Does this mean there are photo's of a GT40 started?:drunk:get a lot done without a phone tho
I can absolutely assure you Maurice that there are no photos of that
, & I am very glad that the Quake was not centered around here, having visited my humble abode & surrounding storage facilities Im sure you would agree :worried: , Its hard enough to find stuff now without mother nature putting everything thru a giant mixing bowl...I've spent some years in NZ, and people used to say you that you couldn't get a jelly to set, it was so shaky. But that's not true. We had lots of jelly. On another note, where exactly is Gore (I've forgotten) and what is it most famous for?
My garage is not any more organise than yours, all was good after the main shake, its all the aftershocks that have shaken things off the shelves, and benches. Every time I go into the garage there is something else moved :embarassed: and considering how far away I am, all Russ gear must be on the floor.
Yeah, the aftershocks are causing some further damage, 649 of them as of now. Most of my stuff is OK and has stayed on shelves etc but items leaning against walls wind up strewn across the floor.
Only real casualty has been some stuff that I'm storing for Jac Mac so I guess the quake effects extend as far a Gore. LOL.
For Daltons info, Gore is just north of NZ's southernmost city, Invercargill. Invercargill, home of Teretonga international race track, is situated on the southern coast of the South Island and is jokingly referred to as being the arsehole of NZ, Gore is 67km up it!
I just felt another aftershock! That's 650 now, and still counting.....
Only real casualty has been some stuff that I'm storing for Jac Mac so I guess the quake effects extend as far a Gore. LOL.
For Daltons info, Gore is just north of NZ's southernmost city, Invercargill. Invercargill, home of Teretonga international race track, is situated on the southern coast of the South Island and is jokingly referred to as being the arsehole of NZ, Gore is 67km up it!
I just felt another aftershock! That's 650 now, and still counting.....
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