NZ 7.4 Earthquake

I received this response from a business I'm dealing with in NZ. Not sure of the exact location, but it is stated as being in Christchurch.

Yes we have certainly had a weekend of it all, our home and neighbourhood is very bad, but our workplace managed to get away without much damage at all. It was extremely freighting tho.

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Seems to be pretty much business as usual, they've said they'll get back to me in a couple of days.

Julia said:

Thanks, Wayne. So upsetting to see familiar landmarks in rubble.
A friend to whom I was speaking today had just sold her restaurant in the CBD recently. There is now nothing left of it.

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I know what you mean.

The department store fire in Hobart 3 years ago was bad enough in that regard, it took quite a while for it to sink in that the store I remember going to as a child and which "had always been there" was now in ruins.

And of course what's just happened in NZ is easily 1000+ times worse than a shop burning down.

Best wishes to everyone affected. Don't let it beat you...

Julia said:

Thanks, Wayne. So upsetting to see familiar landmarks in rubble.
A friend to whom I was speaking today had just sold her restaurant in the CBD recently. There is now nothing left of it.

Trainspotter: by all means go back to sleep since you're quite unaffected.
Hope you never have to experience the fear, shock and damage currently being coped with by Christchurch residents.

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My response has been castrated by the mods in retort to the sleeping thingy. Nevermind.

I went through Cyclone Tracy in 1974 so I understand devastation, fear and shock very well. It is a tragedy on a major scale to the infrastructure and buildings of Christchurch as well as the livelihood of the NZ people.

NO ONE WAS KILLED. So indeed they are extremely lucky it hit when it did rather than in the high noon when the CBD would have been bustling with people. Then the outcome would have been different.

Aftershocks of 6.0 this morning is not helping the situation.

AFTERSHOCKS

Been driving Canterbury residents around the bend.

To see how many there have been, check this link out http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/

Hi,

Its incredible no-one was killed.

I was in Newcastle when the quake was a 5.9 ( I think)

5 people died, and it was a really weird thing I can tell you.

You actually have to live thru one to appreciate the profound shock of feeling the earth literally move, primal instinct is aroused and many people are disturbed by the whole thing manifesting itself in various ways.

I dont know if it gets better or worse if you experience subsequent quakes, as I beleive the area is somewhat prone.

The Kiwis down there are a tough, uncomplaining lot, my thoughts are with them

( whenever I stand next to a 2 foot thick reinforced concrete column holding up a big building, I remember how weird it was watching one shake its booty in front of my eyes...man I shot out of that building like a rat from a burning ship)

We had a 5.3 pointer in my area today.

I was driving and didn't feel a thing.

There was no damage.

A 5.3 magnitude earthquake has shaken Hawke's Bay this afternoon.

The quake was centred at a depth of 20km, 10km south-east of Porangahau or 80km south of Hastings at 4.18pm, the GeoNet website reported.

There were no initial reports of damage or injury but it was felt widely.

"I was on the third floor and I can tell you it was rocking," a Hastings police spokesman said.

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