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I just heard there was a 6.3 magnitude earthquake centered in Christchurch, New Zealand. I hope everyone there is safe and unhurt and that the communities affected by the earthquake recover quickly.
 
mds725 said:
I just heard there was a 6.3 magnitude earthquake centered in Christchurch, New Zealand. I hope everyone there is safe and unhurt and that the communities affected by the earthquake recover quickly.
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Kia ora,
I also wish well to them over there....and hope everyone is safe and unhurt...may they
quickly recover....MM Stan.
 
The earthquake is worse than was initially reported. Although it was "only" a 6.3 magnitude, it was close to the surface, and many buildings in Christchurch were leveled. The latest report I heard (5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, GMT) is that more than 60 people have been killed. My prayers go out to the people of the affected areas and their families.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_new_zealand_earthquake
 
I don't watch TV much so missed the updates, just saw it on the news portion of my start page. This is sad news, I love New Zealand and have always wanted to live there someday. Thanks for bringing it to everyone's attention, as prayers are something that can be sent immediately.
 
yup news just said 65 confirmed deaths at the moment. Thing with this quake is that everything is already loose etc from the last one so its just decimated everything.
 
Watching news reports now - looks very very serious. Thoughts go out to NZ.
 
I was in a 7.9 in Peru in 1970.

Believe me, when a Country gets up and starts walking about it certainly makes you consider your priorities and position in life.

It really hits me whenever I hear of 'quakes happening so my heart, and prayers, go out to all those who've been affected in NZ.
 
My thoughts and prayers to everyone affected..
 
Just watching a wall to wall coverage over here at the moment. The footage is unbelievable...talking to victims as they're being pulled out from the rubble of the flattened buildings. Very hard to watch. Reports are that hundreds still trapped. Sheesh!! They're even talking to people still buried on their mobile phones. Like an earlier post said, still fragile from the last one so things just crumpled up as the quake was so close to the surface. People sending emergency texts from under rubble. Apparently they've already had 30+ mini aftershocks already...
 
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Did you get any rumbles in Taz Eugene?
 
spookefoote said:
Did you get any rumbles in Taz Eugene?
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Plenty of rumbles after our garlic bread and french onion soup Spookey, but no mate, nothing more substantial than that thankfully. It's incredible, they're right on a faultline and tonight they were saying that the Kiwis experience 4 or 5 thousand rumbles a year. We had a small quake in Tassie late last year where things in the house started rattling in the middle of the night. A weird sound; a low growl, like the sound of a storm, but underground.
 
eugene ukulele said:
Plenty of rumbles after our garlic bread and french onion soup Spookey, but no mate, nothing more substantial than that thankfully. It's incredible, they're right on a faultline and tonight they were saying that the Kiwis experience 4 or 5 thousand rumbles a year. We had a small quake in Tassie late last year where things in the house started rattling in the middle of the night. A weird sound; a low growl, like the sound of a storm, but underground.
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It's more in the region of 15,000 but we only feel a few hundred of them. There's a reason we're called the shakey isles :)

Here's a readings from a seismic drum near the affected area:
http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/drums/mqz-drum.html

And here's a page with some telling pictures:
http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/

Weirdly, the Wellington region where I live is where we were all expecting a massive quake, and one even bigger than this one at that.

It was really quite reaffirming of our nation's character when you see on the news, overweight bankers and financial consultants who were returning from lunch, putting down their briefcases and helping to pull the injured out. Seeing people show up with station wagons and 4 wheel drives when the city ran out of Ambulances, in order to get the seriously wounded to hospitals. Civilians, their suits covered in dust and mud and sewerage and blood, shoulder to shoulder with rescue personnel helping out however they can. Students using social networking to organise armies of the willing and able to help. A large multinational foodstuffs company with their own private spring announced that they would freely give water from it to whoever showed up.

And further to that the ANZAC spirit shone - there were some Aussie doctors at a conference who arrived in the city centre, collected as many medical supplies as they could and went to work helping where they could. Australia immediately dispatched specialist search and rescue teams also to help out.

It's also heartbreaking to know that I'm stuck half a country away and unable to help beyond giving blood and a bit of money. I have friends who live there who have secured their families and pets and they're heading in to start digging, and my younger brother has been called up to fly down there to help get communications back up.

There's plenty of information available here:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-earthquake?label=Christchurch+quake
 
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Prayers and a speedy recovery for those affected by this natural disaster.
 
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