you really are a fucking twerp.

happybaboon wrote:http://i.imgur.com/9Ulk3.jpg
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA owned by mother nature, bitches.

Damn missed all the action. But was alerted about it last night not long after it happened.
Hmmm, PGA (Peak Ground Accelerations) of 29 %g at the airport. That is pretty intense for alluvials. Have been using 20 %g for slope assessment in hard rock for an 8.1 Alpine fault event when working in NZ (I work as an Engineering Geologist so pretend to know such things).
Probably a good thing to stock up on water while you can as the water tanks on the hills (from my knowledge of CHCH lifeline infrastructure) have automatic triggers on them to shut off during earthquakes. That is a likely reason for no water for a while today. Do not know the setup deal with the suburban wells but they need power to run the pumps.
Sounds like the South New Brighton bridge is ok but access ramps messed up. How did the Ferrymead bridge go, as that is a key lifeline infrastructure for Sumner etc as that is the only way out (unless you do long drive over hills or thru tunnel)

First recorded fatality
'Orana Wildlife Park chief executive Lynn Anderson says one of its black and white monkeys became traumatised and tried to escape from its island enclosure and drowned in a moat on Saturday.'

I am quite proud how NZ has handled this earthquake of this magnitude.
No fatalities apart from the monkey.
Years of training and preperation which includes BBQ and booze the simple way to survive.

I live in a shitty student rental flat. Apart from an onion falling on the floor, a jar of tumeric exploding around the kitchen and a leak in the top pipes of the water cyclinder (fixed by a simple tightening), we had nothing fall over, break, or get consumed by the earth. I've put it down to the fact that the house is rotten through out, so was like shaking a jelly on a plate.

Bikes all OK (fully suvived a wardrobe falling on it) so all is good.

Concerned for the bike shop though. Can't see the brick building Scotties is in holding up too well. So many small business owners + staff are going to be out of a job.

House is less two chimneys and a lot of crockery but feeling very lucky right now.

Can't see going out to dinner with the missus two celebrate our second aniversary being a goer tonight.

Kipper wrote:Can't see going out to dinner with the missus two celebrate our second aniversary being a goer tonight.

On the plus side that tonight you should be able to use that old favorite "did the earth move for you too baby?"

Good luck to all of you dealing with the clean up and I hope that the businesses and peoples lives can get back to normal soon.

jeyboi wrote:you really are a fucking twerp.

happybaboon wrote:http://i.imgur.com/9Ulk3.jpg
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA owned by mother nature, bitches.

tad agressive there innit?

Another wobble just then... it aint over yet folks!

the one that followed it at 1316hrs had the whole clan back under the door frame.
Still a bit nervey........

Am I missing something...

Geonet reports a large amount of small earthquakes days before the 7.1 all located in around the same spot the big one hit. And yet reading on Stuff.co.nz apparently scientists were caught by surprise by the 7.1 quake???!

Anyways good to hear that most people are ok

I think those earthquakey swarm things happen all over the place and with such regularity that it's unpossible to use them to accurately predict big ones...

I've been on the Geonet a few times over the last couple of years and if you do a timelapse of all the tremors there are thousands of them. It's too hard to predict a quake from a few tremors.

VERT wrote:Am I missing something...

Yes.

Just got power to our place in Brighton about 2pm Sunday, according to forth hand news from a relative they just realized that there was pockets without power they assumed had power already. We didn't want to ring and make their day any busier *shrug*.

My experience in bullet point form:
* GAH EARTHQUAKE get under doorway. Yell at others in house, who I didn't know beat me to their doorways.
* Well that was a big one/ hey the powers out/ ...I'm standing in the hallway naked.
* Chuck on a dressing gown/ check other people.
* Hmm. Looks like there's no lights left on in the entirety of chch, from what i can see on the horizon. WHERE IS EVERYONE GOING? OH SHIT IS THERE AN EVACUATION?
* Nope, don't have any radios that work. FFFFUUUUUUU.

* Confusion/ lets GTFO NOW/ grab random things/ (I made sure to grab my camera, and cigars.)

* Got as far as Buckleys Road then pulled over. Whats the radio say? West. Oh. Then why the fuck was everyone fleeing?
* ANnnnd the car batteries flat. (this is an auto, we can't push in? damn). We're stuck here. Someone who pulls up behind us has a chat, offers to go get us some jumper leads from the gas station. I jump out and have a cigar.
* Gas station wouldn't lend them leads. Flagged someone down just as the driver got the car started anyway . Had a chat.
* Got home, turned water main off, had a stiff drink while my mum got my dad wrapped up warm to try to to help him with the shock.

* etc etc/ wtf is going on/ RADIO IS FUCKING USELESS WITH LITTLE INFO. With no way to boil potentially contaminated water we called the Civil Defense number in the phone book, only to be told the wrong school to go to for water. They never told us to take a container. They nor the radio ever told us about the curfew/ who had power/ how long/ or what we were supposed to do in the mean time. We did get to hear about the PMs childhood, I wish he'd never had one.

Pretty much a fail by civil defense and the radio stations, heads should roll.