Earthquake in Christchurch!

Is it divine punishment for their continual weird fucking crimes e.g. all the women that get murdered there?
Is it punishment for giving Money Bill Williams a way into the greatest sport in the world?
Is it because they got BZP banned?

Dang - check out some of the pics here - http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4095395/Earthquake-hits-the-South-Island
Some pretty major damage?

my dad, brother and sister were in christchurch for the night visiting family. they said they get thrown out of bed it was so rough and the house next to them caved in..

they're ok but pretty freaked out as you can imagine

Hope harvey is ok

No deaths? Surprising with a 7.4 and a lot of damage

COS I'M A SIX POINT SEVEN ON THE RICHTER SCALE
GOT RHYMES GALORE AND YO I NEVER FAIL

News agencies are fkn useless! No word at all about SBW yet

I think it would have been a different story if this happened at a different time of a day/week.

Would have been fkn epic if you were walking home from a night out getting on it imo

My sister called me this morning and said that in places the ground had liquefied and houses were partially sunk. Imagine being sucked down into the mud! It could have been a whole lot worse had it happened at a different time..

wow.

I wonder how marshlands faired.

Imagine if you wet out on the piss heavy last night, slept through the quake this morning and only woke up like now, hungover as fuck.

"What the *fuck* did I do last night?!?!?!"

What the fuck with this arsehole? What's he worried about airborne disease from all the buried hookers coming out of the ground?

Futhermore!


"this photo will come to define many things about the earthquake & Christchurch in general"

Possibly sewage or toxic dust from old buildings?

Heaps of reports of strong sulphur smell. Fuck this, last thing we need a volcano eruption...

there's fuck all volcanoes in the South Island

http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/quakes/recent_quakes.html?ref=nf

Holly shit, after shocks are still very frequent...

lol kroniq

Thank God we live in a first world country -
Magnitude:
Port au Prince -7
Christchurch – 7.1

Distance from epicentre:
Port au Prince – 25km
Christchurch – 33km

Death toll:
Port au Prince – 230,000
Christchurch – 0

I was recently trying to explain to people in Greece why we use timber to build houses... this is a good illustration. The old stone buildings came down.

It might sound pedantic but it was a 7.1. I think the difference is signifiant considering its an exponantial scale and an 8 is ten times the magnitude of a 7, if it was a 7.4 then quite possibly there would have been fatalities because thats something like twice the magnitue I believe. But still I guess people are lucky noone was killed looking at the damage.

The 1931 Napier earthquake (which made my grandmother fear riding in lifts for life) was a 7.8.

http://geonet.org.nz/earthquake/quakes/3366146g.html

Posting this cause I love looking at these things

Just heard from nacoa: evacuated from his flat because of building next door threatening to come down, big cracks across his ceiling.

Oh man, plane has crashed killing 9 as well :'(

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4096455/Nine-dead-in-Fox-Glacier-plane-crash

Yes all good - i posted an earlier estimate which was revised down later this morning

MIght be a good boost for the local economy - let's hope people can affort to spend


Insurance companies where are you????

CHCH boys on crack....

Gutted, my friend has 3 young children and her house has literally split into two

Criminally overlooked.

Earthquake Commission.

Here you go...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4096878/Sonny-Bill-Williams-has-a-rude-awakening

Yep, it was pretty crazy. Was down in Christchurch for a wedding. Heaps of us were staying in a hotel that rocked about like mad, but didn't seem to suffer any damage. So I didn't realise how bad things were until I spoke to my parents in the morning and they were telling me about all the damage they were seeing on tv.

The venue for the wedding reception had heaps of smashed bottles and glass everywhere. So everybody pitched in and cleaned that up. The church where the wedding was to be held had stonework collapsed in so the ceremony had to be shifted to a hall. Everyone pitched in and made it happen though which was very cool. Luckily the power/water came on at the hotel in time to get ready. And the staff at the reception did a good job with still no power in the evening, running the kitchen on a generator, with everything else by candlelight.

Was missioning about the place yesterday and saw quite a bit of damage. Lots of brick buildings that look ok from a distance but are all cracked.

There has also been heaps of aftershocks. We had a fairly decent sized one in the middle of my best man speech that spooked quite a few people. Didn't get much sleep on Sat night either with being woken by aftershocks.

Oh, and the high winds that were starting to come last night aren't going to help. It was a pretty bumpy takeoff from the airport last night ...I am a bit over being shaken about now.

Sidebar: Anderton may as well give up now; this will be the perfect mayoral campaign for Bob Parker.
Shoe in.

Yeah, this has been absolute god-send for incumbent.

also, LULZ @ Anderton's comments the day before earthquake :>>>>>

which were? for those of us not following

The Insurance Companies are doing heaps, things were happening 6am on Saturday, it's pretty nonstop at the moment. This is going to be massively expensive...

IAG which owns NZI and State say they are completely re-insured so the cost will be born offshore
dont know about Tower.
EQC owns NZ bonds so this could drive up interest rates.

Needless to say Fletcher building share pice is up today. Tower down a lot too.

here is an animated mapping of quakes

EQC only pays out the first $100K, private insurance has to cover the rest

Apparently the second floor of the Riccarton Mall just collapsed.

I heard that the leading cause of injury in A&E today in Christchurch has been people who have fallen off their roof during attempts at repair/demolition.

maybe you should go and shoot your informant

Just make sure you first accuse him of tagging the building he had just looted.

To my knowledge Tower are only exposed to about $5m of the cost, which is peanuts compared to other insurers. Reinsurance will cover the majority of it - the EQC has the most comprehensive reinsurance scheme of everyone - but there is still a lot that will be paid from underwriters pockets here.

Further to Anderton story - it's actually misreporting

http://dimpost.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/that-took-a-lotta-class/

yes they made an announcement after I made my post - as did a lot of NZ companies who may have been affected.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10671478

5.2 magnitude earthquake has hit Hawkes Bay.

Geonet said: "today's Hawke's Bay quake is not related to Canterbury's 7.1 Saturday earthquake - other than that they're both caused by the same two plates rubbing against each other".

So, they are actually related, right?

in an incestuous way...

Kissing cousins

a thought occurs to me

what if this is just the precursor to

THE BIG ONE

then the uninsured are truely screwed

as well as anyone doing this

apparently there is new destruction occurring from the aftershocks - houses previously unscathed are being damaged by todays followup jolts as they have shallow epicentres

I wonder how it would pan out if you werent insured and you hadnt been damaged in the quakes so far and then today you rang up trying to arrange insurance

I'm sure the insurance company would be happy to take on new chch customers

tuitime

Truly, a prophesy.



http://www.economist.com/blogs/asiaview/2010/09/earthquake_christchurch

they must be the denizens of the shaky isles that the Edmonton Journal referred to

So many people still on edge... think I had my 1st half decent sleep last night, but still woke up to aftershocks... can't do much now but just try and see the good side of life eh, pretty surreal and not really much you can do... not sure when I'm allowed back in my place.

If you have been watching the news coverage I live about 20m from where the reporters are standing... seeing AlvaRados restaurant sent me into a bit of shock... I'm just glad my place is still standing, has a green card on outside, but still needs internal checks.

In saying that, even though i can't go back, I think my situation is pretty good compared to a lot of people, houses may look fine cosmetically, but so many are fucked internally. My thoughts are with them.

I'm glad that I have so many great friends and family that have checked up on me, have so much gratitude from them... it's truely amazing the sense of community in this city at the moment... makes me think better about the human race as a whole... except for those scumbag looters... who should all be shot!!

yeah the Ferndale special needs school looters especially

Looks like the whole country is about to crumble

"5.3 earthquake in Hawke's Bay"

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/4112222/Quake-burglar-convicted-under-Civil-Defence-Emergency-Act

Good to see the courts lending a helping hand.

that conviction makes me very uncomfortable

how quick we are to assume the worst of ourselves


-good to hear you're alright nacoa

are you kidding? a serial burglar, in a cordon area, he cant give a good reason why he was there. We do the same for private property at normal times let alone in a state of emergency. I think this is a good law, the cops dont have to spend time looking out for the property of victims of the earthquake let alone rescuing some idiot who gets themselves crushed in an aftershock for being somewhere they shouldn't.

nope being very serious - but won't be wasting our time debating why as I can't be bothered today

We don't assume the worst of ourselves. We assume the worst of a greedy cunt with a track record of theft being in an area of opportunity to one such as he that has been cordoned off for just that reason as well as safety to the public. And he would have known it.

heh gonna agree wif the rabid righties on this one :>

he was convicted for being there... his past has no bearing on that fact but seems to be the justification for the conviction

don't seem right to me

100% agree with bob.

He was convicted for being in a no go zone, that was clearly marked a no go zone, and could give no reason whatsoever for being there.

well he gave reasons but no valid ones

also he said he had no priors for the charges laid against him lol

judge rightly pointed out not many if any would do

judge is a scribe

said he didn't know it was a no go zone - thats a defence - one I find unlikely but a reason none the less

why wasn't his mate sentenced then and there?

uh huh

I would hazard his mate lacks the priors including 9 burglaries last year that Toby did

Thanks dude... heard yesterday I might not be allowed to go home for a month, things change all the time though. Just count my lucky stars that I will hopefully at least be able to live there again, so many worse off

its pretty tough watching ya hometown fall apart from afar...

bunch of my firends are now taking their families out of the city as the kids are all traumatised

off to timaru to really shake the kids up

stay safe!

This the big one?

6.3 according to the herald..

Just heard from my sister, she says everything is on the floor, theres massive cracks on the walls and windows are smashed at her place. Poor Chch! I hope everyone is OK..

Edit: Apparently the cathedral is down, the hospital is being evacuated and the square is totalled. Its not sounding good so far..

Awful. Sounds like the Cathedral has been hit quite badly. Hang in there Chch

Both stuff.co.nz and nzherald.co.nz are buckling under the traffic

geez chch, get it together >_<

sumner rocks falling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt0iIHXFnR0&feature=youtu.be

^^ is that an old video? Date added is Feb 21st? Unless it's US time?

according to comments its the US datestamp

fuck I hate this feeling of helplessness watching on like ghouls

kia kaha chch

My sister just said her kids school colapsed around them. Poor lil bebs are shaking and crying, thank god they are OK though. My girl who works at Telecom said the Chch office is destroyed and the boss down there is in tears because he cant find some of his staff. Jaysus.

Is that the TCNZ exchange site or the admin office?

What a major

the admin office, fb

Parts of the city are absolutely wrecked, the damage from this quake is far worse than the last.

Confirmed deaths by fire service.

I dont know. Do you have friends that work there? My mate is out of comms now because AK and Welli offices are taking everything over so shes flat out. I hope they are found safe.

Fucken ay. Hope they've got some decent civil defence action going on there ... might actually nedd the US etc to come give us a hand this time round.

we don't need the US, jeeze itchy have some faith in your own

Fucking hell this is bad look at some of the footage on TV atm : ( Reports of buses being crushed too.

Via NZ Police:

Major earthquake in Christchurch

22 February, 2011 - 13:55

A major earthquake in Christchurch at 12.51pm has caused widespread damage and injury.

The central city is currently being evacuated as reports are received of widespread damage to buildings and infrastructure.

Multiple fatalities have been reported at several locations in the central city, including two buses crushed by falling buildings. A doctor and emergency services are attending.

Other reports include multiple building collapses, fires in buildings in the central and persons reported trapped in buildings.

All available police staff are assisting with evacuations and emergency responses.

Christchurch Hospital is not evacuated and is in operation. No injuries reported at Christchurch Airport.

Defence forces have been called in to assist.

for those at work but have sky tv at home, you can watch on isky....
http://www.isky.co.nz/channels/sky_news_nz/default.aspx

for people in AUS. ABC news 24 and channel 7 are reboardcasting tv3
channel 9 is rebroadcasting tvnz

even if you're nz you should be able to get onto the abc news stream on abc.net.au/