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New Zealand ... how fare you?

trimacar

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Trimacar, thanks for your concern for New Zealand members.

My wife and myself relocated from Christchurch after the devastating earthquake of 2011 and now live in Nelson which is about 100 miles from the epicentre of the latest quakes. I guess we are both used to them now after experiencing hundreds of earthquakes and aftershocks over the years, as are most people who live on the South Island. 

There is no damage here in Nelson but many land slips have occurred blocking highways south, and damage to interisland ferry terminals have disrupted vehicle movement between North and South islands.

Having relocated here in 2004 from Australia I now know why they are called the "Shaky Isles".

 

 

 

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Stuff.co.nz, http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ are local news outlets. Luckily the EQ occurred at 12:02 a.m. with another large one shortly after. We are several hundred km away and slept through it, but one long-pendulum wall clock stopped at 12:07.

 

The town of Kaikoura is cut off. There are three roads in, all blocked by landslips and rock falls. The railway line is beside the coastal road north and south of Kaikoura and it is also munted by the slips. The inland route in from the south should be open in the next couple of days, but it is narrow and winding in places. Kaikoura has a pop. of about 2000 plus c. 1000 tourists - it is a popular whale watching centre. There is no water, sewerage or power and only local telephone. Power is coming on slowly as is water as a supply pipe is repaired. There is a swarm of helicopters lifting supplies in and people out to the south and today a frigate is there and inflatables are ferrying people to landing craft thence to the warship. Three or four other warships are en-route, all with choppers and supplies on board. These ships are Canadian, US and Australian I believe. I think they have been called away from an exercise. Aftershocks are continuing all the time. So Kaikoura is being helped out.

 

In Wellington, one building has pancaked one floor. It is only 11 years old so questions are being asked. It should have withstood the moderate shaking it got. Another 10 storey building has a broken beam on the 6th floor and is in danger of collapsing. Several other (older) buildings are out of action for a while, maybe a year, maybe until replaced. Their staff are working at home for the time being. Damned hard if your work is on the network at work and the building is closed.

 

The three cattle on an island surrounded by slumped land have been rescued by digger. You may have seen TV footage of this.

 

Only two deaths I think and a few injuries. Thank goodness it was the middle of the night. Most buildings have everything on the floor and some with furniture fastened to the wall as they should be are also a mess because the fastening was insufficient. Quite a few ceilings in commercial buildings are sub-code and have fallen. There are low-life scumbags taking advantage of evacuations to burgle houses.

 

Small communities elsewhere are worse off than Kaikoura, e.g. Mt Lyford, pop. c. 200 (or is it 400).

 

We are well practiced at rescue after the Christchurch sequence of EQs 5-6 years ago. After a 50 to 60 year hiatus of strong ground motion, we seem to be in a new period of more frequent, significant earth deformation and quakes that started with a severe EQ off the SW coast in 2009.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Spinneyhill said:

Stuff.co.nz, http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ are local news outlets. Luckily the EQ occurred at 12:02 a.m. with another large one shortly after. We are several hundred km away and slept through it, but one long-pendulum wall clock stopped at 12:07.

 

The town of Kaikoura is cut off. There are three roads in, all blocked by landslips and rock falls. The railway line is beside the coastal road north and south of Kaikoura and it is also munted by the slips. The inland route in from the south should be open in the next couple of days, but it is narrow and winding in places. Kaikoura has a pop. of about 2000 plus c. 1000 tourists - it is a popular whale watching centre. There is no water, sewerage or power and only local telephone. Power is coming on slowly as is water as a supply pipe is repaired. There is a swarm of helicopters lifting supplies in and people out to the south and today a frigate is there and inflatables are ferrying people to landing craft thence to the warship. Three or four other warships are en-route, all with choppers and supplies on board. These ships are Canadian, US and Australian I believe. I think they have been called away from an exercise. Aftershocks are continuing all the time. So Kaikoura is being helped out.

 

 

Yep, HMAS Darwin was in Auckland for an event and is on it's way

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I am near Christchurch now. (Spend more time here than in Australia)

Other than a good shake at 2 minutes past midnight, no effect here.

 

Still a lot of ongoing shakes in Kaikoura & Wellington area

A multi story (10?) building in Wellington will be demolished soon. Has major structural damage from Monday's quake
http://canterburyquakelive.co.nz/

http://wellingtonquakelive.co.nz/

 

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6 hours ago, trimacar said:

Wow, didn't realize there was such continuing activity, thanks for replies.  Awful that the two people died, but it seems it could have been worse.  Prayers are with you guys....

 

Thanks. Large EQs are always followed by a swarm of aftershocks. Movement in one fault causes extra stress in others, some of which break and the effect spreads.

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The NZ Navy  evacuated ~400 people from Kaikoura down to the Christchurch port of Lyttleton Wednesday night

 

Will be others with damaged cars

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/nz-earthquake/86547793/kaikoura-volunteer-fire-chief-ian-walker-on-his-broken-corvette-and-the-week-from-hell

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The computer Ian Walker installed last Friday is totalled, his "bloody heavy" gas fire has been ripped out of the ceiling and spat across the room and he hasn't showered in three days.

But that's not what he's really grumpy about. The earthquake shook his prized 1972 Corvette off the hoist at his mechanics' workshop, dumping it on its nose and stoving in the bonnet.

 

 

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Actually we were more or less told to b.....r off from ANZUS coz we refused to accept warships unless it was stated they were not nuclear armed or propelled. This was in the '80s. USA refuses to say either way so we have been in the cold ever since. This US ship is the first to come here since then. Our non-nuclear stance is enshrined in legislation.

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