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SugarHillCTD · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:47 am Post subject: New Zealand earthquake

Hopefully our K11 friends in NZ are OK.

I emailed Paul Edlington- when I hear back I will let everyone know.

John
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max · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:25 am Post subject:

I think John & Cathy are in Auckland? (and probably glad to be!)

Family (and KRS) all OK here, but Christchurch is buggered, basically... 6.3 earthquake equates to about 42 kilotons of TNT. Let off 10 kms away, 5kms down, and the aftershocks keep coming too - feel like a damn cork in a bottle.

Anyway, here.

SugarHillCTD · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:38 am Post subject:

Yes, Paul lives in Auckland.

Good to hear you are ok, Max.

John
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SugarHillCTD · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 4:08 pm Post subject:

Just got a brief email message from Paul in NZ. He and Gill are fine.

But he did mention that he worries about what is next- earthquake or volcano. Shocked

Hope all our K11 family in New Zealand are OK
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Ernie-NH · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 11:22 pm Post subject:

Hi John... Hi Max...

Really really glad to hear that our NZ friends are OK though rattled. I had been thinking about them all day, and hoping for the best. Our hearts and prayers go out to all those who did suffer or have lost their lives in this tragedy. Needless to say that all of us in the K11OG are ready to help in any way possible.. those of you there please keep us posted..

Very best to all.........// Ernie in NH
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dwerbil · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 12:01 am Post subject:

Looks like the quake was a bad one indeed.....

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/
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robleyd · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 12:22 am Post subject:

I'm guessing that his hasn't been reported much on the idjit box over your way; here in Oz we've gotten a pretty graphic look at the mess that used to be Christchurch - actually a sister city to Adelaide where I live (along with Austin, Texas)

A lot of the city that survived the last quake in September last year has been damaged or destroyed by this one, including the lovely old cathedral in the city square.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/christchurch-earthquake-photos/news/image.cfm?c_id=1503036&gal_cid=1503036&gallery_id=116929#7381709
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Flying Duck · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 12:49 am Post subject:

That's really a shame about those older buildings. Sad pictures.
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garfey · Joined: 13 Feb 2011 Posts: 18 Location: Deep East Texas

@ robleyd
There's actually been quite a bit of coverage here and all of it looked like a terrible, terrible disaster.
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SugarHillCTD · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 7:49 pm Post subject:

Second email from NZ.

Darryl- those at HMIII will remember him- says that all is OK where he and his family are (North Island) but the devastation is bad in Christchurch (South Island)

NZ's people are in our thoughts.
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Paul Edlington · Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 2:57 am Post subject:

Hi Guy's,

Sorry I'm a bit slow replying but I don't look every day on the forum.

We are ok up here in the North Island at the moment but it's pretty grim down in Christchurch, I been talking to a mate down there who was only just really recovering from the September quake and then this one as hit, his place as took a bit of a beating but he's managed to get the house water tight for the moment but is wife and young daughter are sleeping in a tent in the garden for now as they are very nervous about sleeping back in the house.

Christchurch I'm afraid will never look or be the same again, Sad

not sure at this point in time whether they will rebuild the city as it could all happen again at any time, I've heard some comments that the city should be rebuilt further inland on more stable ground, as Christchurch as a very sandy base, but who knows it's still very early days

I was saying to John (Sugarhill) they say that if anything of the same nature was to happen up here in Auckland it would probably be a volcanic eruption and not an earthquake Shocked

don't really want either but if mother nature wants to have her say there will be no stopping her !

Cheers from a very shaky NZ Confused

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drikko · Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 10:46 am Post subject:

Paul, I have a cousin in Xchurch, she was saying the same thing. After all the aftershocks from September then this one, the kids (only little) are refusing to sleep in their rooms and refusing to go to school as a few of their buildings collapsed. Not that the school is back open, they are saying they won't go back even when it does!!

Must be difficult.

I just watched a doco on the San Francisco earthquake and fires in 1906, wow! Didn't realise they were so bad!!
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Shoganai · Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 7:05 pm Post subject:

The land down under has been in my thoughts and prayers. It's good hear from our K11 friends but the loss of so many is hard.
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max · Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 7:48 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the kind thoughts all... Christchurch will pull through, but there is an awful lot of raw emotion going around down here, and it does get to you; in some cases it's even sadder as the victims (both survivors and not) were just plain people having a pleasant lunchtime whatever as tourists, let alone locals who - no matter that they wouldn't have been able to act on the knowledge in most cases - realized that it was a quake.

Anyway, positive things I'd like to pass on
- we're OK, the house is OK, work is mostly OK (mine fairly good but a lot of staff affected; my wifes' school is in the CBD and closed, it's close to the teetering 26 storey Grand Chancellor hotel so likely will be so indefinitely)... all good, but it's surreal and does cause "survivor guilt" a bit!

- the international dimension of the SAR response is amazing - truely a brotherhood (as the firefighters etc would put it); includes US team (from LA?) as well as UK, Wales, Taiwan, China, Australia, Singapore IIRC, Japan... certainly blows the politics aside.

- the local help... Always hated the "new fangled" social media, but some students here at the local university have used FaceBook to organise grass-roots help. It's currently at around 12,000 students donanting their time to dig out the liquefaction mud (silt that boils to the surface in temporary springs from the pressure of the earthquake compacting sandy layers underground)... estimation is 100 - 150 thousand TONS of the stuff to move, but it's being started on.

- strange to say, but the 7.1 Sept 4th quake helped as well... it was a good wakeup call, it got heavy machinery close by, it got a lot of the more suspect structures cordoned off already, both for access and for pavements nearby. The toll now is appalling, but could have been much worse.

If you're interested you can always check the news, but do check the local paper here too - it's covering some of the less sensational stories so a little less doom-&-gloom too... http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press

Take care.

Max