Earthquake New Zealand

[Anthony Darby]

Glad to know you guys are okay over there!
We're having floods in Central Victoria at the moment    - the locusts are due next month!
I guess we are "living in interesting times'!
cheers
fermi

Crumbs! Locust and frogs. What other Biblical plagues are going to happen?

[ranunculus]

That must pose interesting legal questions as to who owns what 

One certainly might be on shaky ground!   

Apologies, very best wishes and please stay safe ... to all our friends in New Zealand.

[DaveM]

OOOOOOh groan - you certainly need to apologise for that one Cliff.

Thanks for your comments Lesley and David. That must have been a frightening experience Lesley, but your tale certainly paints a scary picture of such dust storms.

David, interesting times indeed. What could be deduced from the evidence presented in the pictures is certainly consistent with the broader picture you relate. Thanks for this.

[fermi de Sousa]

I heard on the radio today that some ...boundry fences and buildings have moved up to 4 metres from their original positions.

Is that towards Australia or away? We offered you a place at Federation and you refused so don't think you can just become part of us by moving a few tectonic plates!

A friend has sent this link to the Canterbury Uni: http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/photos.shtml
Some rooms just look like what you'd expect Uni students to leave behind them!
cheers
fermi

[galahad]

First job today when I arrived at work was to evacuate the hotel after a 5.1 shake.   
State of emergency has been extended by 7 days after this mornings rattler

[Lesley Cox]

I think the boundries were moved towards the sea Fermi, the Pacific, that is, so more likely we'll join up again with South America, maybe resurrect Gondwanaland!

Re the university pictures, it can be seen why Canterbury Uni has closed until the 13th at least. I've said some very ude words about uni students over the years, especially when the Canterbury engineering school trashes Dunedin on their annual "Undie 500" run but classes off in the meantime, one bright lad put out a notice by text and on Facebook asking for a couple of dozen students to help with some cleaning up of properties owned by elderly folks living alone. MORE THAN 2000 TURNED UP with wheelbarrows, spades, shovels, brooms and other tools and they have spent the week, boys and girls, shovelling the ghastly mud and silt from peoples gardens, paths and houses, and dumping it on the streets for the council trucks to collect and take away. As one elderly woman said, "no-one else has been by. If it wasn't for these young people we'd be covered with the stuff by now."

[Senecio 2]

After the quake. Not as bad as it looks, still plenty of survivors for the Otago Alpine Group show in Dunedin on the 18th and 19th September

[cohan]

Here is a link to Geonet showing the fault an aerial photos of the fault trace. You can see the offset by the displacement of the irrigation ditches and shelter belts. 

http://www.geonet.org.nz/news/article-sep-4-2010-christchurch-earthquake.html

for the life of me, i cannot find photos from that page

[John Kitt]

We have been watching the demolition work in the centre of Christchurch on our cable TV and broadcast services. It really is heart wrenching to see wonderful old buildings having to be pulled down.  More upsetting is the announcements of job losses because some business will not reopen following the earthquake damage.
We Australians have lots of experiences with natural disasters (drought and flood and fire) so we can empathise, but this is New Zealand's "Garden City" so this really does become personal.  In these trying time I hope all Kiwi's "maintain their keen sense of humus"

[t00lie]

After the quake. Not as bad as it looks, still plenty of survivors for the Otago Alpine Group show in Dunedin on the 18th and 19th September

I knew you double potted a lot Stuart but didn't realise it's everything 
Do you think you will lose anything ?.

[Paddy Tobin]

Lesley,

Your reporting of the 2,000 students turning up to clean out gardens etc is a good new story. Nice to read it.

Paddy

[Brian Ellis]

one bright lad put out a notice by text and on Facebook asking for a couple of dozen students to help with some cleaning up of properties owned by elderly folks living alone. MORE THAN 2000 TURNED UP with wheelbarrows, spades, shovels, brooms and other tools and they have spent the week, boys and girls, shovelling the ghastly mud and silt from peoples gardens, paths and houses, and dumping it on the streets for the council trucks to collect and take away. As one elderly woman said, "no-one else has been by. If it wasn't for these young people we'd be covered with the stuff by now."

That's good to hear Lesley, kind of restores your faith in the next generation

[Maggi Young]

Here is a link to Geonet showing the fault an aerial photos of the fault trace. You can see the offset by the displacement of the irrigation ditches and shelter belts. 

http://www.geonet.org.nz/news/article-sep-4-2010-christchurch-earthquake.html

for the life of me, i cannot find photos from that page

 cohan... neither can I!!      Help!

[David Lyttle]

http://www.geonet.org.nz/news/article-sep-4-2010-christchurch-earthquake.html

The page is still there. Here is the link again.

[t00lie]

That is strange --i viewed the photos ,(and video shot from a helicopter),just after you posted the details David --however i cannot locate them .

I see the geonet page has been updated since so possibly the earlier info has been superseded ?.