Do we know where Paul and Peter live in NZ......and Ian, of course.
Trust none of them were anywhere near the quake and tsunami, and are OK !!!
Cheers - Phil
Fingers crossed
Thanks for checking up on us :)
All good here thankfully.....was a BIG shake, though had one of my daughters sleep right through it and I had to wake her as soon as it stopped :o
Haven't heard from Paul but I would imagine he's OK as we both live a little north of Wellington itself. Heard from family and other people in the area and thankfully they are all OK.
I think even Sandinista probably felt the quake way up at the top of the North Island!
No trains or other public transport today, though the local school is open which surprised me. Can't go to work till the building has been checked out in Wellington.
Most of the damage and casualties are down in the South Island again, the epicenter of the quake was north of Christchurch and at least one small town on the coast has been badly affected, cut off and some fatalities :(
Cheers
Peter
Text from Paul...all good there to :)
Thanks for the thoughts guys
We are fine as well, as Pierre the Shy said we are both north of Wellington so over 200km from main epicentre
My son in Christchurch (200 km south of epicentre) evacuated further inland in case of tsunami but as far as we know there have not been any major tsunami
I get to work from home today while the engineers check out our building plus hundreds of other in the centre of Wellington
I might even get some more done on the Crusaders ;) :)
Good news !! :-bd #:-S
Couldn't remember exactly where you all were.
Delighted you're safe....Now we just need to hear from Ian.
7.8 is rather a big quake, isn't it ?......Sounds dreadful.
Very sad to hear some folk have been killed. :(
Best wishes - Phil
Ian is about 1,000km north of the quakes unless he happened to be traveling so should be fine
The main earthquake was in a fairly remote area so casualties have been low, two reported dead, one due to a heart attack triggered by the earthquake
Quote from: Techno on 13 November 2016, 08:22:52 PM
Good news !! :-bd #:-S
Very sad to hear some folk have been killed. :(
Agreed.
(btw: good news that the guys are safe)
Yes it was the biggest shake I've been in since I moved here as a kid many years ago.
Lots of people evacuated because of Tsunami warnings but that has passed now.....it will take a while for things to be back to normal here....not looking good for top of the South Island from the TV pictures.
Cheers
Peter
Good to hear
Glad you and yours are all okay gents.
Glad you guys have checked in, continue to stay safe.
Felt it in Auckland (624.3 kms or 387.9 miles away) - very slightly; made our 3-storey townhouse sway a bit, which set the Venetian blinds rattling. Confused me somewhat, as at the time I though I'd imagined it. Have a mate in Lower Huttt (north of Wellington) that got shaken around a bit, but no damage to mention.
We are far too north to be affected, thankfully. We had the tsunami warnings, which I slept through :-[ At it's worst it was only 1m anticipated up in Bay of Islands.
I am glad the fault lines turn east a long way south of us, I don't fancy having to deal with that.
My heart goes out to all those affected.
Cheers
Ian
Good to hear you guys are ok as well :)
Just had another good rattle, fortunately not while I was painting ;)
Quote from: Techno on 13 November 2016, 08:22:52 PM
7.8 is rather a big quake, isn't it ?......Sounds dreadful.
It's fairly substantial. It's a logarythmic scale, so a 7.0 is 10 times worse than a 6.0, and 100 times worse than a 5.0.
The one that messed up Christchurch in 2011 was 6.3.
A quake's effects are also based on how deep it is, and it's type (up-and-down or side-to-side). That's pretty much exhausted my knowledge of earthquakes though :)
At 15km the main one was fairly shallow
The seismologists are now saying it was in fact two quakes at almost the same time very close together
About 20 after shocks of 5.0 or greater so far, including a 6.2 and a 6.3 :-SS X_X
Good to hear Ian's OK too. :-bd
News here has just reported another 'single' shock.....Though from what Paul has put, it was no more powerful than the aftershocks.
(Or maybe one of those, was what the radio was talking about ?)
Where are you, Dave ?......You did move back 'home', didn't you ?......Or is my memory playing tricks on me ?
Keep safe guys !
Cheers - Phil
Aftershocks are continuing to rattle us all day...been over 200 so far, most are much smaller than the main event, which is now thought to have actually been two quakes very close together.
Looks like back to work tomorrow for me. Its going to take a major effort to clean up this quake, a lot of road and rail infrastructure damage down south and here in Wellington.
One of the worst things I have heard today was that people in low lying areas of Christchurch evacuated to higher ground when the tsunami warnings went off. When they returned home, after the all clear was given, they found 19 houses had been completely stripped of electronics and anything else of value by looters.....B******s >:( :(
Quote from: pierre the shy on 14 November 2016, 05:49:26 AM
One of the worst things I have heard today was that people in low lying areas of Christchurch evacuated to higher ground when the tsunami warnings went off. When they returned home, after the all clear was given, they found 19 houses had been completely stripped of electronics and anything else of value by looters.....B******s >:( :(
X_X X_X X_X
THE BLANKING SCUM !! So hope the police catch them, and they get the book thrown at them ! >:( >:( >:( >:(
No doubt the insurance companies will try and wriggle out of paying out, because the houses were all unoccupied.
That would be one thing that would cheer me up........ If that
wasn't the case. (Fingers crossed !)
Cheers - Phil
Glad to hear everyone is ok. As for the looters..... >:(
Looks like my work building will be having 'checks' until probably Friday, so I get to work from home ;)
Phil, I'm pretty sure KiwiDave is in Auckland, over 600km away, nearer to Sandinista than to Pierre & I
My son is back home and his place was not one of the 19 looted #:-S
You really have to wonder about some people >:(
Just had a couple of strong after shocks in the last 10 minutes; 5.6 and 5.8 :o
I moved into a door way for the bigger one
Rain and winds rising to gale force coming in now, just what they don't need :(
Phil, I'm in Auckland, so suitably far away to be unaffected by the drama.
As for the looters, they should be shot like the rabid dogs that they are....
I was talking to a work colleague today, her son was due to move back north today after finishing college near where the earthquake was. I can't remember the name of the town (getting old, memory going...) anyway, she was worried as he wasn't answering her calls. She eventually gets a call back from him mid morning, he slept through it, aided by beer - the students friend.
Apparently he deserves his hangover ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers
Ian
Interesting graphic my mate just posted.
https://www.facebook.com/michael.cowie/posts/10157739102590357?ref=notif¬if_t=close_friend_activity¬if_id=1479144076532480
Good to hear everyone's safe and well, we've been getting updates from my brother-in-law and family, who found themselves standing outside in the garden in the early hours of the morning until it calmed down!
What part of the country are brother-in-law and family in Leon?
I have an Uncle living in New Zealand. After the earthquake he is reported to be in Shetland. :-\
I've got oodles of distant relatives in NZ.
Sadly, it's a part of the family tree I know next to nothing about, apart from one man.
(Paul knows who that is.)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: paulr on 15 November 2016, 12:42:04 AM
What part of the country are brother-in-law and family in Leon?
They're in New Plymouth, with the nephew up at university in Waikato.
Reasonably far away then, although there were some power problems in some places in Taranaki (province New Plymouth is in)
Yeah, they lost power for quite some time, so were conserving mobile batteries in case it didn't come back on. I think it was fixed sometime the following afternoon though, so maybe 12 hours out.