Thread: Kiwi Earthquake

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AmeriCARna was one of the best Meguiar's shows I've seen in a long time. . . Gotta love the New Zealanders!!!!

Prayers are out for all the NZ'ers. The pictures are incredible. Sent an e-mail out to friends who are vacationing in that area. They replied that they left 22 hrs. before the quake. Visited the Cathedral and was staying 3 blocks away. They said they were feeling lucky and also sad for all the people that are suffering.

Very sad news with so many deaths and casualties.NZ is having a tough time with the mining disaster and now this.Have friends in ChCh and thankfully they are safe.Looks like many are still not accounted for so there must be many families having a very hard time.

Its not good down there,Roger..I think theres 65 confirmed dead,still about 300 missing,and now,rescue attempts are hampered by the possibility that one of the buildings they are trying to get into may collapse completely..There is a 6.30pm curfew in the city now,which started 30 minutes ago..There are the odd looters out there too..hope they get caught and jailed..

Our prayers are with you in this time of tragedy. We just heard that a United Airlines plane is due to leave at midnite with a search and rescue team as well as high tech equipment to help in finding people in the rubble hopefully still alive. This team was very successful in Haiti and is very well trained. We will hope and pray they ate successful in their rescue mission.
Ken

A dumb question, but are earthquakes common in that area?


Don

Not till last September..

Don,the whole country sits on/in an earthquake fault,I think...that is,according to the old Readers Digest atlas anyway.We have had a few bad ones,sometime in the late seventies,from memory,in the eastern north island,,did a lot of damage,Inangahua,on the west coast of the south island,[70s]Napier,in the north island,back in the early thirties..and a few others,I have probably forgotten..Its only a small country,and a big quake has far reaching consequences..We quite often have little tremors,just like the ones I experienced while on holiday in California in 1991..but scattered all over the country.Thankfully,we dont have too many like this.I dont know how long this lot is going to take to clean up,but it will be YEARS..The centre of the city is STUFFED...and a lot of the old buildings will have to be totally destroyed,as the bricks and mortar are just not up to it structurally. It is just so devastating.
On another note,we are all grateful for the help offered from different parts of the world,including your government,for search and rescue teams,which we also have coming from our Buds across the ditch,in Aussie..and Asia,I believe..And Lynda,my wife,has posted a link on Facebook to this thread,to show everyone else the support you guys and gal[s] are giving us..Lump in my throat...see ya later..