Strong quake hits near major New Zealand city

CONTIKI · Post by **CONTIKI** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 11:36 am

A powerful earthquake that struck New Zealand on Saturday caused "a lot of damage," though there are no reports of serious injuries or major damage, an emergency... FULL STORY
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/0 ... ml?npt=NP1

rooster · Post by **rooster** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 12:09 pm

Just read about it on Yahoo news. Hopefully cleanup will go smoothly

Mark Ramirez · Post by **Mark Ramirez** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 12:45 pm

It's Saturday morning in New Zealand when a 7.4 earthquake has struck the South Island! Alot of damage, so far not very many hurt though.

Howard Lorney · Post by **Howard Lorney** » Sun Sep 05, 2010 2:15 am

They're talking NZ$2 billion worth of damage, no loss of life and only a couple of people with serious injuries. God was smiling on the people that day. Major infrastructure damage which will take a long time to repair.

Always looking for the bright side, the reconstruction process will be a huge boost to the economy of the region.

CONTIKI · Post by **CONTIKI** » Sun Sep 05, 2010 7:50 am

I hope all is well with you and your family and friends.

rooster · Post by **rooster** » Sun Sep 05, 2010 12:50 pm

Glad your ok Howard

Hope the home didn't get damaged too bad.

Any word from Bingtang Bob

womble · Post by **womble** » Sun Sep 05, 2010 2:05 pm

rooster wrote: Any word from Bingtang Bob

Its hard to get in contact with Bob these days ... he passed away on 1st January 2010 ...

Anyway back to tectonic plates and their penchant for shifting ... NZ is after all called the shaky isles ... something to do with that whopping great fault line running through the middle of the south island ... extremely fortuitous that no one was killed during the earthquake ... amazing actually considering the magnitude ... luck sheep shaggers those kay-one-double-ewe-ones ... thats K 1 W 1's ... the north island missed out on the fault line ... but second prize was a highly active volcanic zone ...

rooster · Post by **rooster** » Sun Sep 05, 2010 2:24 pm

Sorry Womble, I didn't know that about Bob

Hopefully he is scoping out new surf spots to show us when we get there

kneelogrl · Post by **kneelogrl** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 4:01 pm

Every now & again I see Bob, or he makes his presence known.......

FYI the North Island did NOT miss out on fault lines. The deadliest quake in NZ was in Napiier in 1930 something. We had a 6.8 quake in Gisborne 2 years ago. People from here are going to Chch to help assess buildings, & share knowlege that was gained so they don't have to learn it again.

Howard Lorney · Post by **Howard Lorney** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 5:29 pm

Hi Sue, most recent NI quakes registered 5.4 today at Porongahau and 3.6 at Waipawa both in the Hawkes' Bay. Also there has been increase in geothermal activity on White Island in the Bay of Plenty.

Thanks for enquiring about our well being Rooster, we're actually a couple of thousand km's north of Christchurch

so we're great but look out if all this activity means White Island will erupt. We'll really be screwed then

, tsunami would hit within minutes.

rooster · Post by **rooster** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 5:28 pm

Howard

Didn't know where on the 2 islands you were, just looked in the atlas and yeah your ok, 'cept for that eruption thing.

With that erupion going on in Indo maybe it will take some pressure off your mountain. Either way, just glad no one died, and from what I have been reading, most basic services got restored fairly quick. Gotta love that national spirit

strudle · Post by **strudle** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 2:24 am

Still having after shocks of around 4. A number of 5s over the last few days. Hard to get a decent sleep. 300 something aftershocks totaling over 2 hours of shake rattle and roll. No, structural damage done to my place, I'm on the hill which is solid rock. A couple of suburbs on the flat suffered major liquefaction which hasn't helped things. Drinking water in most suburbs is now ok to drink. CBD will open tomorrow.
http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/qua ... uakes.html

kneelogrl · Post by **kneelogrl** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 1:24 pm

Hi Howard.
I think the new subdivision on the former swamp, that suffered liquefaction, was the subject of a campaign to get the Christchurch city council to prevent building there, as it was some of the last remnant of original wetland.