EarthQuake in Christchurch

[melon]

Just been aftershocks in Christchurch, powerful apparently

[duke knooby]

Originally Posted by melon

Just been aftershocks in Christchurch, powerful apparently

green or red???

[Evil One]

Blue

[Steve6]

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.

[Guy]

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
beautiful place though.......hope all is well over there, god bless.

[vrg]

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.

[Pudding]

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



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

[daveake]

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

[Steve6]

Originally Posted by daveake

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

[vrg]

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)?

[Pudding]

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.

[Steve6]

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!!!!

[allrevvedup]

Originally Posted by Steve6

I'm lucky I live in Ireland...We don't even have a volcano.

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

[AndrewG]

Originally Posted by Steve6

I'm sure it's all over now.

Great you are so sure, but I doubt the people of Christchurch are!

It's amazing no one was hurt considering how bad it was.

Agreed.

Originally Posted by Steve6

I'm lucky I live in Ireland we never get earthquakes here or even hurricanes.

Oh really?

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.

Originally Posted by Steve6

We don't even have a volcano.

Oh really?


See here and here.

Originally Posted by Steve6

Thank god for our location on the world map!!!!

Thank God for YOUR location on the world map.

[Steve6]

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.

[GDW]

Originally Posted by Steve6

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! Best place in the World.

[AndrewG]

Originally Posted by Steve6

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.

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.

[RSG]

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

[Pudding]

Originally Posted by GDW

and they call Australia the Lucky Country!

I think only Australians call Australia the 'Lucky Country'

[vrg]

Originally Posted by Steve6

America is unlucky because mother nature hits it hard...

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.

[Steve6]

Originally Posted by vrg

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

[The Flying Mouse]

We had quite a quake in Liverpool a few years ago

A major earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richer scale hit Liverpool in the early hours of January 24th 2006. the epicenter was Bootle Liverpool.

Casualties were seen wandering aimlessly saying “bang out of order”, “mental” and “that did my head in”. The earthquake decimated the area causing in excess of £17.55 worth of damage.

Several priceless collections of mementos from Ibiza and Corfu were damaged beyond repair.

Three preserved areas of historic burned out cars were disturbed. many locals were woken before their giros arrived. the local paper “Calm Down Herald” reported that hundreds of residents were confused and bewildered. They are still trying to come to terms with the fact that the damage was caused by something else instead of them.

One resident, Tracey Sharon Smith, a 15 year old mother of 4 said “It was such a shock, little Chardonnay-Leigh came running through the cardboard door into my bedroom crying. my hands were shaking so much that I could hardly skin up when I watching Trisha the next morning”. Another local resident known as Macca said the earthquake would not stop him going to work, after all, the T.W.O.C’ing, burglaries and graffiti would not do themselves.

The British Red Cross has so far managed to ship 4,000 crates of sunny delight to the area to help with the crisis. Rescue workers were still searching through rubble and have found large quantities of personal belongings which include benefit books, jewelery from Elizabeth dukes, bone china from Poundstrecher and a number of Argos catalogues. However they were unable to save any furniture from Crazy George’s.

How can you help?

This appeal hopes to raise money for food and clothing for those unfortunate enough to be caught up in the disaster. Clothing is most sought after. Most needed are Kappa or other tracksuits (His and Hears), white socks to tuck the tracksuit bottoms into, Burberry caps, woolly Benny hats and Reebok trainers. Primark clothing is most welcome.

Food parcels are also needed. They include Mcains Micro-Chips, Aldi Beans, Monster Munch, Nutella chocolate spread and Iceland pizzas. Alcohol is also in short supply, mainly Lambrini, White Lightning, cider and Carlsberg Special Brew. Cash donations are also needed, 22p buys a Bic Biro for signing on purposes, £1.50 buys cheese and chips and £26 buys 200 Regal from Tommo who has just got back from Kavos.

[daveake]

[duke knooby]

Originally Posted by The Flying Mouse

We had quite a quake in Liverpool a few years ago

we had the youtube version lol

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

[Pudding]

Originally Posted by Steve6

Pudding's deportation from Yorkshire must have taken weeks.

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