Earthquake
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Yeah, would be good if nature could settle the fuck down.
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I'm fairly certain that's at Pinnacle Rock. Looks like it will take some time to clear - that's a sizeable slip. Hopefully everyone else is safe and sound.
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@NTA said in Earthquake:
Bloody hell.... almost worth blasting back as far as you can and setting up some form of barrier.
Geologically NZ is quite young. Over here we have the odd shake - I have never experienced earthquaker - but its a damn sight flatter, generally speaking.
Geologically Australia is boring as batshit. Nothing ever really happens. NZ on the other hand, dynamic as fuck - a Geologist's dream. Right on the boundary between the Australian and Pacific plate. Earthquakes, volcanoes, nowhere is safe. Good times!
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@Bones said in Earthquake:
The poor Olds had to evacuate in the middle of the night, thankfully able to head to high ground in jville. I see ferner chowie had to sit in a car in strathmore. Sucks. Sounds like no major damage to anyone I know thankfully!
the closest anyone will ever get to seeing these words in a sentence.
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Well maybe some good will come out of this and a decent road from the top of the SI will be built. The Kaikoura Rd can then be cleared for a tourist route only.
Lyttleton Harbour's profits are going to take a jump for a while I guess while all road and rail freight to ChCh has to go by sea instead. Expect high petrol prices in the SI for some time. -
@ACT-Crusader said in Earthquake:
Thank goodnees Ritchie is there!
That is a massive hunk of pasture wiped out. Pretty much unfixable in terms of cost vs return.
That really is an incredible picture.
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Yeah it sure is, utter destruction. All I can say is thank fuck the epicentre wasn't directly underneath a city - that would level just about any building.
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I can reliably say there's flooding fucken everywhere at the moment. With tragedy there's always those stories in adversity that restore your faith that maybe there is a higher being watching us.....
mine was the news that 400 litres of beer that I brewed with a bunch of mates was completely unharmed.
How that story didn't appear on 3 news is beyond me. I blame Hilarys departure.
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@Chris-B. said in Earthquake:
Would have been interesting times if Wellington had been flattened with a big storm following on its heels.
As it is, I see the Stats NZ building has had a floor collapse - nobody in it because the CBD buildings are still closed pending engineering reports etc, but had that been during the day with people at work...
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@Godder The glass on highrises in NZ isn't really all that flash which is a real worry in a quake. A glazier gave me the run down on it a few years ago and said keep an eye out in the news and you'll notice in Wellington there's a lot of issues with it. He was right, in fact a sheet fell two stories off a building I'm working on , fortunately it happened on a sunday otherwise one of us would have been underneath it. I shudder to think what a major earthquake means to a glass front highrise in Wellington
For example
Glass balcony sheets fall from Wellington high rise
Heavy glass sheets have fallen off an apartment building in central Wellington - and it's not the first it has happened on the high rise.
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@Chris-B. said in Earthquake:
Not something that will inspire a great deal of confidence in other people who have to work in those Wellington City buildings!
In my younger years at Vic Uni I did a project on how prepared Wellington is for a big earthquake. I can't remember exactly but something like half the buildings in the CBD will not stand up to a big Earthquake. Courtney Place was particularly bad with old buildings. That was a long time ago now so I'm sure things have improved a bit, but without a doubt there will still be buildings not up to standard.
Instead of the little whippsnapper rocks they get in the shaky isles 
