View Full Version : 7.0 Quake hits NZ
http://www.smh.com.au/world/powerful-earthquake-strikes-new-zealand-20100904-14us4.html
Hope our Kiwi bro's and the hobbits are all OK. Maybe someone upset a Balrog.
Castout
09-03-10, 06:40 PM
Nah their island is sitting on a quake fault.
Good thing nobody was killed
Konovalov
09-03-10, 06:42 PM
Yeah I heard that the epicentre was only about 6kms away from Christchurch city centre. I've already seen some pictures on the news of damage. Brough back memories of the Newcastle quake years ago. Hope everyone and the sheep are ok.
Yeah I heard that the epicentre was only about 6kms away from Christchurch city centre. I've already seen some pictures on the news of damage. Brough back memories of the Newcastle quake years ago. Hope everyone and the sheep are ok.
Blimey I remember that one. I was 14 floors up in a building in North Sydney and felt the shaking and wondered WTF was going on.:o
Are all 14 million sheep alright? :03:
Castout
09-03-10, 06:55 PM
Blimey I remember that one. I was 14 floors up in a building in North Sydney and felt the shaking and wondered WTF was going on.:o
If you feel just the shaking it's probably not that dangerous or immediately dangerous
however
If you feel the ground or floor literally moving rapidly in all direction horizontally you are most probably in immediate danger
If you feel the ground or floor literally moving in all direction INCLUDING vertically the building will most probably collapse.
Looking at the damage in NZ you can say they're blessed that nobody was killed. Good thing. To me Australians and New Zealanders are among the warmest people. Heck no wonder because they are listed as being among the happiest nations on the planet :D
Are all 14 million sheep alright? :03:Hang on Kiwi is still counting them
Konovalov
09-03-10, 07:01 PM
Blimey I remember that one. I was 14 floors up in a building in North Sydney and felt the shaking and wondered WTF was going on.:o
Yeah, well I was just down the road from you in Military Road, Neutral Bay that day. :)
TLAM Strike
09-03-10, 08:01 PM
I wonder if this is a precursor to Australia's planned invasion?
:hmmm:
Naw it was probably just the HAARP Earthquake Gun missing Iran again... :haha:
Task Force
09-03-10, 08:18 PM
Last time we used that earthquake gun it hit Haiti, Hmm, it must be flawed.
Yeah, well I was just down the road from you in Military Road, Neutral Bay that day. :)
Wow. I lived in Military Rd in Cremorne and my wife was home with the eldest and rang me to ask me WTF just happened.
kiwi_2005
09-03-10, 08:53 PM
Yea It happened in Christchurch, south island 7.1 or something, in fact im sick of hearing about it on the radio - every 15min update after update that i turned it off. :haha:
So your sheep and hobbits are all safe then?:D
kiwi_2005
09-03-10, 09:01 PM
So your sheep and hobbits are all safe then?:D
Don't know about the hobbits but im so glad the sheep are all safe :o
:haha:
Don't know about the hobbits but im so glad the sheep are all safe :o
:haha:
I'm sure their boyfriends are as well.:D
Panic over...the sheep are all well.
Last time we used that earthquake gun it hit Haiti, Hmm, it must be flawed.
To quote Jeremy Clarkson:
Not like those smooth-bore American ones that just hit something "over there".:DL
kiwi_2005
09-04-10, 02:54 PM
I might sound like a nasty kiwi but Christchurch had it coming to them, they gave us north islanders flak when our power went down in the major city Auckland for 6 days, people weren't allowed to flush their toilets or take showers, hospitals were on emergency power, people died, the man in charge of the power had a major heart attack & dropped dead his wife said he just couldn't take the stress of having the finger pointed at him. The Christchurch south islanders never let us forget that our major city was down for 6 days. We use to say your day will come Christchurch is on the earthquake fault line dead centre.
Though im glad no one died from this earthquake as that wouldn't of been funny just many of their precious buildings will have to be destroyed, roads and water supply is down.
So yes what is funny is they will have to crap in a bucket for the next few days. :DL :o
Strange but us North islanders would rather Aussies has our neighbors than those blardy south islanders.
Strange but us North islanders would rather Aussies has our neighbors than those blardy south islanders.
Can't understand why you'd think wanting us as neighbours as strange.:yeah:
kiwi_2005
09-06-10, 02:13 PM
I take that back what i said, its worse than i thought we got plenty of homeless southerners wandering round and whats worse is they expecting heavy rain for the next week. I at first thought it was just the lost of buildings and there sewage system is down but those you can easily replace/fix. Some Southerners have lost everything. :nope:
Can't understand why you'd think wanting us as neighbours as strange.:yeah:
Its cause your all mad, :D oh wait...
nikimcbee
09-07-10, 11:23 PM
So frodo finally threw the ring in. took long enough
More aftershocks today. One of 5.2 magnitude. Looks like they are having a rough time of it over the ditch.
kiwi_2005
09-08-10, 10:01 AM
Yes there's been a few aftershocks, the latest one i think is the 5.2 you mentioned that was only 6 miles down. One chap just finish building his brand new home got to live in it for 4 days before it fell to bits, house is now condemned. Plenty of stories like that one, then there's the water problem they had to ship drinking water from wellington by trucks and to finish it off they got looters!
A friend who's a builder by trade and out of work has loaded up his truck and headed off to Christchurch there be plenty of work for the next couple of years so tradesmen are needed. Total costs to rebuild the city is at 2 billion so far.
Christchurch was built on sand and is directly sitting on the EQ fault line.:dead:
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