Just been aftershocks in Christchurch, powerful apparently

green or red???

Blue

This time next year the rugby world cup is there. Lucky it wasn't this year with that earthquake happening. With a larger volume of people in Christchurch there was bound to be fatalities.

Jeze
 

I remember being there in 96 and 98 and both times we had pretty strong quakes......coming from a place where they are hardly ever noticed it was a real shock.I remember sitting in a bar in new brighton(as you do) and watchin the road just look like an ocean wave:shock::shock:
beautiful place though.......hope all is well over there, god bless.;)

I'm glad all is well with the Puds; been thinking of you'all since I heard about the quake; I knew you were near Christchurch, but not in it, at least where you moved to last year (?) or before.

Natural disasters and crazy weather have been very frequent and newsworthy lately. Yesterday a low-end EF2 tornado (does a good amount of damage, like flipping over an 18-wheeler into a warehouse! The driver made it OK), along with a couple of EF1's hit the Dallas area (Meat, hope your friends are OK), which adds another city to the 'hit-by-tornado' list, after Oklahoma City, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, etc. I saw where Victoria in south Australia was having major floods. And California has had the 'minor' shakes over the last several months.

Let's hope future aftershocks are lesser in quantity, damage-free and stay away from where the Puds are.

For anyone interested, here's what the latest seismograph reading for what Christchurch is:

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c1...g/untitled.jpg

As you can tell there's still quite a lot of activity.

You can check online yourself as the earthquake drums continually get updated HERE and the drum nearest to me can be seen HERE

Hope you didn't crack any Eggs to get that screen shot :-)

:lmao:

Thanks for the geographic link. Looks like there's still plenty of shaking going on. How much do you feel in your area - I noticed there were some vivid signals for today (9/14)?

About 98% of the time I don't feel anything as the earthquakes are quite deep. Now and again you do feel something and makes you wonder whether it is indeed an earthquake or just a dizzy spell.

I'm sure it's all over now. It's amazing no one was hurt considering how bad it was. I'm lucky I live in Ireland we never get earthquakes here or even hurricanes. We don't even have a volcano. Thank god for our location on the world map!!!!

well depending who you believe...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarloaf_(Cork)

Great you are so sure, but I doubt the people of Christchurch are!
Agreed. :up:
Oh really?
:sherlock:
See here and here. As you can read, several hundred Irish fatalities over the last few hundred years due to hurricanes and severe weather storms. Think you are safe?, think again.
Oh really?
:sherlock:

See here and here.

Thank God for YOUR location on the world map. ;-)

Well Andrew I've been on the island of Ireland for a long time, and a part from having a few floods, and thunder storms, I don't recall ever experiencing a hurricane or earthquake. I'd feel more safe here than any other place in the world to be honest. Mother nature keeps MY country well looked after. We seldom have heavy snow too. Sure Scotland doesn't have any problems, so I'm sure you're very happy and safe too.

America is unlucky because mother nature hits it hard, and South America too.

You name it, we pretty much get it all in Australia and they call Australia the Lucky Country!:D Best place in the World.:D

I don't live in Scotland at the moment but yeah I agree mother nature is a bit less fierce over here but there are times it can still ~~~~ you right up the ass if you don't watch out.

all the best to you, Pud. I just heard about this now, posted the story on my FB for 'friends' to check out. Glad to hear your well

I think only Australians call Australia the 'Lucky Country' ;)

We do seem to be in an area of the world where we get everything:

Winter snow – Washington, DC was shut down twice last winter due to two 2-3 foot snowstorms in a week;
Summer heat – this past summer has been record-breaking multiple 90+F and triple-digit highs over a large portion of the US;
Hurricanes – so far just a glancing blow from Earl over Cape Cod and Nantucket and a slightly heavier blow up at St. John’s in Canada, but we remember Katrina from 2005 in New Orleans and MS, Andrew in 1992 in FL, Ike in 2008 in Galveston with its Category 5 storm surge (15 feet+) which brought to attention their record of having the worst US deadly natural disaster in an unexpected hurricane in 1900;
Earthquakes – California has a long record and it carries on
Volcanoes – Mount St. Helen’s in 1980 with its unforgettable photos of losing its top, and constant action in Hawaii;
Tornadoes – Tornado Alley in the mid-section of the US, but tornadoes can occur anywhere, as Dallas TX proved recently, and Salt Lake City and Atlanta had their turns before;
Floods – The Mississippi River in mid-US, plus the rivers to its north have caused 100-year floods in the last few years; in the last few months we’ve seen an increase of long-hours storms that give at least 4” of rain and usually up to 10-12” in less than a day, and the resulting horrible floods, i.e. Nashville, TN in early May and recently a tropical storm dumped on TX, OK and MO.
Did I miss anything? That's enough!

But we can still have glorious weather, like right now in late summer we are having low 70s F daytime, sunny with dry air and low humidity and cool nights, at long last, for pre-foliage, apple-picking season.

I must say I love the photos of Ireland with the green fields and the coastal water, along with other similar areas in the UK.

The fields aren't as green as they look in the photos. Most of them are swamps, and muddy. One thing the pictures don't show you is how bad most of the fields smell. Cow and horse :shit: not to mention the silage...yuk!!!!. You wouldn't walk through a lot of fields in Ireland. But the mountains and hills are fantastic, and the views are amazing.

But if you were to go to the countryside in the UK it's the same to be fair. I quiet liked what I saw of the New Zealand countryside from the Lord of the Rings. It's a pity it's so far away. Pudding's deportation from Yorkshire must have taken weeks. ;-)

:twisted: We had quite a quake in Liverpool a few years ago :shock:

:lmao:

we had the youtube version lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn_NI9QwQPI

Can you get deported from Yorkshire? I despair sometimes with your complete stupidity.