EarthQuake in Christchurch

[allrevvedup]

Hope Pud's ok...he's in christchurch right?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/09/03/bloomberg1376-L86QWH0UQVI901-41G9GMP3S6OK859LQUIFHJAMP9.DTL

[24K]

Yep he is in ChristChurch, hope no one was badly hurt !

[AndyK]

Not good news. Hope Pud and his family are all ok.

[Monstro]

Nasty, best wishes to the Pud clan

[Pudding]

I bet any money that Pud doesn't live in Christchurch ;)

Thanks for all the concern, all the Puds' are quite safe. I did feel it at just after 4:30am and so did most of the South Island, quite exciting really. It's one of the biggest New Zealand has had in quite some time and some experts reckon there's bigger ones to come at any time :shock:

[Wario]

I bet any money that Pud doesn't live in Christchurch ;)

Thanks for all the concern, all the Puds' are quite safe. I did feel it at just after 4:30am and so did most of the South Island, quite exciting really. It's one of the biggest New Zealand has had in quite some time and some experts reckon there's bigger ones to come at any time :shock:

good show mate. glad ye be safe.

Just be careful. we don't want ye turning into tapioca..

[Fire Ball]

Anyone heard from Pudding. Worried about him. It was a 7.1

Meat

[Rage Against]

On another thread

I bet any money that Pud doesn't live in Christchurch ;)

Thanks for all the concern, all the Puds' are quite safe. I did feel it at just after 4:30am and so did most of the South Island, quite exciting really. It's one of the biggest New Zealand has had in quite some time and some experts reckon there's bigger ones to come at any time :shock:

[Wario]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

hes fine

[Pudding]

Anyone heard from Pudding. Worried about him. It was a 7.1

Meat

I'm all good thanks. I don't live in Christchurch by the way but 5 hours drive south in Dunedin.

[Vickip]

I'm glad to hear you and the family are ok Pudding :-)

[Pudding]

Cheers Vicki.

[Couch Potato]

Best wishes to those who are affected by the Earthquake. Glad you and your family are ok Pudding
Rich

[Monstro]

Threads merged.

Good to know you're ok Pud

[Steve6]

It's good news that no one was killed thank god. But nine people have died in an airplane crash in New Zealand... very tragic stuff indeed.

[Cristina]

good to know you're safe

[The Flying Mouse]

all the Puds' are quite safe.

:twisted: Glad to hear it :up:

[mariella]

I bet any money that Pud doesn't live in Christchurch ;)

Thanks for all the concern, all the Puds' are quite safe.
Glad to hear that :up:... heard about the earthquake right before I fell asleep ... you were the first thing on my mind in the morning:nuts:

[JaysScout]

Glad to hear you are OK, Pudding. Our prayers go out to all those affected over there.

[Pudding]

you were the first thing on my mind in the morning:nuts:

I hear that quite a lot :devil:

[Evil One]

Yes, you spring to mind every time I make my first toilet trip of the day! :cool:

[AndrewG]

:lmao:

Good to hear everyone was ok. :up:

Surprised to hear that good news about no serious incidents at it being a 7.1. Only earthquake I've ever experienced was a teeny tiny one here in the midlands a few years back which most slept through. But even that was weird I would have to say. Can't imagine what a 7.1 must be like and I don't really want to find out.

[Couch Potato]

:lmao:

Good to hear everyone was ok. :up:

Surprised to hear that good news about no serious incidents at it being a 7.1. Only earthquake I've ever experienced was a teeny tiny one here in the midlands a few years back which most slept through. But even that was weird I would have to say. Can't imagine what a 7.1 must be like and I don't really want to find out.

That one not only woke me up but also my radiator fell off the wall causing a massive leak.

But its reassuring to hear no one was seriously hurt, or worse, killed. There has been alot of natural disasters lately.

[Evil One]

"That's not an earthquake. Now that's an earthquake!"

Yes I know he was Australian! :twisted:

[Pudding]

There has been alot of natural disasters lately.

No more than usual I don't think.

[melon]

Just been aftershocks in Christchurch, powerful apparently

[duke knooby]

Just been aftershocks in Christchurch, powerful apparently

green or red???

[Evil One]

Blue

[Steve6]

This time next year the rugby world cup is there. Lucky it wasn't this year with that earthquake happening. With a larger volume of people in Christchurch there was bound to be fatalities.

[Guy]

I remember being there in 96 and 98 and both times we had pretty strong quakes......coming from a place where they are hardly ever noticed it was a real shock.I remember sitting in a bar in new brighton(as you do) and watchin the road just look like an ocean wave:shock::shock:
beautiful place though.......hope all is well over there, god bless.;)

[vrg]

I'm glad all is well with the Puds; been thinking of you'all since I heard about the quake; I knew you were near Christchurch, but not in it, at least where you moved to last year (?) or before.

Natural disasters and crazy weather have been very frequent and newsworthy lately. Yesterday a low-end EF2 tornado (does a good amount of damage, like flipping over an 18-wheeler into a warehouse! The driver made it OK), along with a couple of EF1's hit the Dallas area (Meat, hope your friends are OK), which adds another city to the 'hit-by-tornado' list, after Oklahoma City, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, etc. I saw where Victoria in south Australia was having major floods. And California has had the 'minor' shakes over the last several months.

Let's hope future aftershocks are lesser in quantity, damage-free and stay away from where the Puds are.

[Pudding]

For anyone interested, here's what the latest seismograph reading for what Christchurch is:

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c131/NZPudding/untitled.jpg

As you can tell there's still quite a lot of activity.

You can check online yourself as the earthquake drums continually get updated HERE (http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/drums/mqz-drum.html) and the drum nearest to me can be seen HERE (http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/drums/odz-drum.html)

[daveake]

Hope you didn't crack any Eggs to get that screen shot :-)

[Steve6]

Hope you didn't crack any Eggs to get that screen shot :-)

:lmao:

[vrg]

Thanks for the geographic link. Looks like there's still plenty of shaking going on. How much do you feel in your area - I noticed there were some vivid signals for today (9/14)?

[Pudding]

About 98% of the time I don't feel anything as the earthquakes are quite deep. Now and again you do feel something and makes you wonder whether it is indeed an earthquake or just a dizzy spell.

[Steve6]

I'm sure it's all over now. It's amazing no one was hurt considering how bad it was. I'm lucky I live in Ireland we never get earthquakes here or even hurricanes. We don't even have a volcano. Thank god for our location on the world map!!!!

[allrevvedup]

I'm lucky I live in Ireland...We don't even have a volcano.


well depending who you believe...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarloaf_(Cork)

[AndrewG]

I'm sure it's all over now.

Great you are so sure, but I doubt the people of Christchurch are!

It's amazing no one was hurt considering how bad it was.

Agreed. :up:

I'm lucky I live in Ireland we never get earthquakes here or even hurricanes.

Oh really?
:sherlock:
See here (http://www.sott.net/articles/show/208182-Ireland-Earthquake-shakes-up-record-books) and here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_windstorm). As you can read, several hundred Irish fatalities over the last few hundred years due to hurricanes and severe weather storms. Think you are safe?, think again.

We don't even have a volcano.

Oh really?
:sherlock:

See here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croghan_Hill) and here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Na_Fooey).


Thank god for our location on the world map!!!!

Thank God for YOUR location on the world map. ;-)

[Steve6]

Well Andrew I've been on the island of Ireland for a long time, and a part from having a few floods, and thunder storms, I don't recall ever experiencing a hurricane or earthquake. I'd feel more safe here than any other place in the world to be honest. Mother nature keeps MY country well looked after. We seldom have heavy snow too. Sure Scotland doesn't have any problems, so I'm sure you're very happy and safe too.

America is unlucky because mother nature hits it hard, and South America too.

[GDW]

Well Andrew I've been on the island of Ireland for a long time, and a part from having a few floods, and thunder storms, I don't recall ever experiencing a hurricane or earthquake. I'd feel more safe here than any other place in the world to be honest. Mother nature keeps MY country well looked after. We seldom have heavy snow too. Sure Scotland doesn't have any problems, so I'm sure you're very happy and safe too.

America is unlucky because mother nature hits it hard, and South America too.

You name it, we pretty much get it all in Australia and they call Australia the Lucky Country!:D Best place in the World.:D

[AndrewG]

Well Andrew I've been on the island of Ireland for a long time, and a part from having a few floods, and thunder storms, I don't recall ever experiencing a hurricane or earthquake. I'd feel more safe here than any other place in the world to be honest. Mother nature keeps MY country well looked after. We seldom have heavy snow too. Sure Scotland doesn't have any problems, so I'm sure you're very happy and safe too.

America is unlucky because mother nature hits it hard, and South America too.

I don't live in Scotland at the moment but yeah I agree mother nature is a bit less fierce over here but there are times it can still ~~~~ you right up the ass if you don't watch out.

[RSG]

all the best to you, Pud. I just heard about this now, posted the story on my FB for 'friends' to check out. Glad to hear your well

[Pudding]

and they call Australia the Lucky Country!:D

I think only Australians call Australia the 'Lucky Country' ;)

[vrg]

America is unlucky because mother nature hits it hard...

We do seem to be in an area of the world where we get everything:

Winter snow – Washington, DC was shut down twice last winter due to two 2-3 foot snowstorms in a week;
Summer heat – this past summer has been record-breaking multiple 90+F and triple-digit highs over a large portion of the US;
Hurricanes – so far just a glancing blow from Earl over Cape Cod and Nantucket and a slightly heavier blow up at St. John’s in Canada, but we remember Katrina from 2005 in New Orleans and MS, Andrew in 1992 in FL, Ike in 2008 in Galveston with its Category 5 storm surge (15 feet+) which brought to attention their record of having the worst US deadly natural disaster in an unexpected hurricane in 1900;
Earthquakes – California has a long record and it carries on
Volcanoes – Mount St. Helen’s in 1980 with its unforgettable photos of losing its top, and constant action in Hawaii;
Tornadoes – Tornado Alley in the mid-section of the US, but tornadoes can occur anywhere, as Dallas TX proved recently, and Salt Lake City and Atlanta had their turns before;
Floods – The Mississippi River in mid-US, plus the rivers to its north have caused 100-year floods in the last few years; in the last few months we’ve seen an increase of long-hours storms that give at least 4” of rain and usually up to 10-12” in less than a day, and the resulting horrible floods, i.e. Nashville, TN in early May and recently a tropical storm dumped on TX, OK and MO.
Did I miss anything? That's enough!

But we can still have glorious weather, like right now in late summer we are having low 70s F daytime, sunny with dry air and low humidity and cool nights, at long last, for pre-foliage, apple-picking season.

I must say I love the photos of Ireland with the green fields and the coastal water, along with other similar areas in the UK.

[Steve6]

We do seem to be in an area of the world where we get everything:
But we can still have glorious weather, like right now in late summer we are having low 70s F daytime, sunny with dry air and low humidity and cool nights, at long last, for pre-foliage, apple-picking season.

I must say I love the photos of Ireland with the green fields and the coastal water, along with other similar areas in the UK.

The fields aren't as green as they look in the photos. Most of them are swamps, and muddy. One thing the pictures don't show you is how bad most of the fields smell. Cow and horse :shit: not to mention the silage...yuk!!!!. You wouldn't walk through a lot of fields in Ireland. But the mountains and hills are fantastic, and the views are amazing.

But if you were to go to the countryside in the UK it's the same to be fair. I quiet liked what I saw of the New Zealand countryside from the Lord of the Rings. It's a pity it's so far away. Pudding's deportation from Yorkshire must have taken weeks. ;-)

[The Flying Mouse]

:twisted: We had quite a quake in Liverpool a few years ago :shock:


A major earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richer scale hit Liverpool in the early hours of January 24th 2006. the epicenter was Bootle Liverpool.

Casualties were seen wandering aimlessly saying “bang out of order”, “mental” and “that did my head in”. The earthquake decimated the area causing in excess of £17.55 worth of damage.

Several priceless collections of mementos from Ibiza and Corfu were damaged beyond repair.

Three preserved areas of historic burned out cars were disturbed. many locals were woken before their giros arrived. the local paper “Calm Down Herald” reported that hundreds of residents were confused and bewildered. They are still trying to come to terms with the fact that the damage was caused by something else instead of them.

One resident, Tracey Sharon Smith, a 15 year old mother of 4 said “It was such a shock, little Chardonnay-Leigh came running through the cardboard door into my bedroom crying. my hands were shaking so much that I could hardly skin up when I watching Trisha the next morning”. Another local resident known as Macca said the earthquake would not stop him going to work, after all, the T.W.O.C’ing, burglaries and graffiti would not do themselves.

The British Red Cross has so far managed to ship 4,000 crates of sunny delight to the area to help with the crisis. Rescue workers were still searching through rubble and have found large quantities of personal belongings which include benefit books, jewelery from Elizabeth dukes, bone china from Poundstrecher and a number of Argos catalogues. However they were unable to save any furniture from Crazy George’s.

How can you help?

This appeal hopes to raise money for food and clothing for those unfortunate enough to be caught up in the disaster. Clothing is most sought after. Most needed are Kappa or other tracksuits (His and Hears), white socks to tuck the tracksuit bottoms into, Burberry caps, woolly Benny hats and Reebok trainers. Primark clothing is most welcome.

Food parcels are also needed. They include Mcains Micro-Chips, Aldi Beans, Monster Munch, Nutella chocolate spread and Iceland pizzas. Alcohol is also in short supply, mainly Lambrini, White Lightning, cider and Carlsberg Special Brew. Cash donations are also needed, 22p buys a Bic Biro for signing on purposes, £1.50 buys cheese and chips and £26 buys 200 Regal from Tommo who has just got back from Kavos.

[daveake]

:lmao:

[duke knooby]

:twisted: We had quite a quake in Liverpool a few years ago :shock:

we had the youtube version lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn_NI9QwQPI

[Pudding]

Pudding's deportation from Yorkshire must have taken weeks. ;-)

Can you get deported from Yorkshire? I despair sometimes with your complete stupidity.

[Steve6]

Can you get deported from Yorkshire? I despair sometimes with your complete stupidity.

Don't Pudding's from Yorkshire get deported to all corners of the globe? I'm just posting the honest truth.

[AndyK]

The word you're looking for is exported.

You're posting off topic nonsense. Please stop it.

[Steve6]

Has New Zealand ever had a similar earthquake before? Is it true there could be another one soon? incase I planned on going to the World Cup next year. I don't want to get myself caught up in something like an earthquake? :yep:

[AndrewG]

Has New Zealand ever had a similar earthquake before? Is it true there could be another one soon? incase I planned on going to the World Cup next year. I don't want to get myself caught up in something like an earthquake? :yep:

Anything along these fault lines is at most risk, so yeah NZ is not in a good place with regards to that, but there are many places around the world like that. If you are not going to live or visit somewhere because of that it's up to you but then you can also step out in the street and get hit by a bus anywhere. Apparently the chances of dying in an earthquake are less than by means of legal execution! :shock:

http://media.mlxxfc.net/earthquake.gif

[Pudding]

Has New Zealand ever had a similar earthquake before?

Yes Click ---> HERE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_New_Zealand#Major_earthquakes)

Is it true there could be another one soon?
Could be, who know's? :shrug:

[AndyK]

Thread re-opened following a purge of the off topic stuff. Please stay on topic.

[Pudding]

Cheers Andy.

Although it's extremely nice that people are/were concerned for me and my family, the long term rammifications of the earthquake in Christchurch is Meats possible tour here.:(

He's only ever been known to go to 3 places when here, Auckland, Wellington & Christchurch. Since Auckland & Wellington are on the North Island and Christchurch is on the South Island, if the Christchurch gig is cancelled due to the earthquake, I'm kinda stuffed at best. Also there is the possibility that if he can't play in Christchurch then he might scrap New Zealand tour altogether.

[carole]

You name it, we pretty much get it all in Australia and they call Australia the Lucky Country!:D Best place in the World.:D

I consider myself pretty fortunate that I've lived in places not affected by floods, bushfires or cyclones.

Carole

[Steve6]

Cheers Andy.

He's only ever been known to go to 3 places when here, Auckland, Wellington & Christchurch. Since Auckland & Wellington are on the North Island and Christchurch is on the South Island, if the Christchurch gig is cancelled due to the earthquake, I'm kinda stuffed at best. Also there is the possibility that if he can't play in Christchurch then he might scrap New Zealand tour altogether.

The only way he would cancel a tour is if the venues were destroyed? or if there were more earthquakes coming? Meat would like to lift the spirits of his New Zealand fans I'm sure; so he'll come!!!!....Fear won't stop him. ;)

[Evil One]

He's going to NZ just for Pudding's barbecue.

[daveake]

He's going to NZ just for Pudding's barbecue.

I thought he was going to NZ to barbecue Pudding.

[Pudding]

The only way he would cancel a tour is if the venues were destroyed? or if there were more earthquakes coming? Meat would like to lift the spirits of his New Zealand fans I'm sure; so he'll come!!!!....Fear won't stop him. ;)

More stupid irrational nonsense from you I see :roll:

Meat may want to come but structural engineers might refuse him because of the safety of the public. Also if there's a high risk factor involved then Meats insurance might refuse him to come. If there's only 3 shows for New Zealand and 1 of them is cancelled, then I don't know if that'll create a big enough profit to justify the big trip. Not unless they're going to charge a daft amount of money per tickets, which in this economical climate isn't going to go down too well.

[Steve6]

More stupid irrational nonsense from you I see :roll:

Meat may want to come but structural engineers might refuse him because of the safety of the public. Also if there's a high risk factor involved then Meats insurance might refuse him to come. If there's only 3 shows for New Zealand and 1 of them is cancelled, then I don't know if that'll create a big enough profit to justify the big trip. Not unless they're going to charge a daft amount of money per tickets, which in this economical climate isn't going to go down too well.

Have the venues been damaged? Are there more earthquakes coming? Those are the two most important questions that need to be answered before getting into insurance details. If things are fine in New Zealand then he will go.

[Pudding]

Getting into a conversation with you is like playing eye-spy with my 3 year old, except he makes more sense.

[Steve6]

Getting into a conversation with you is like playing eye-spy with my 3 year old, except he makes more sense.

No I'm just saying there is no reason for Meat Loaf not to go to New Zealand if there is no more earthquakes coming and the venues aren't damaged. That's all I was saying.

[Pudding]

No I'm just saying there is no reason for Meat Loaf not to go to New Zealand if there is no more earthquakes coming and the venues aren't damaged. That's all I was saying.

There's always earthquakes, you can't predict when one is or isn't going to happen, a bit of common sense can tell you that Click HERE (http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/drums/mqz-drum.html) to see the latest quake drum.

I have absolutely no idea what damage has been caused to whatever venue Meat had planned for Christchurch. What I do know is that it'll be very low down on the priority list to get fixed whilst they're trying to rebuild the infrastructure for parts of the city that has been severly affected. There's also 1000's of homes that are going to have to be either knocked down or remain uninhabitable for quite some time, they're going to take priority.

So yeah, there's plenty of reasons for Meat not to come.

[Steve6]

There's always earthquakes, you can't predict when one is or isn't going to happen, a bit of common sense can tell you that Click HERE (http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/drums/mqz-drum.html) to see the latest quake drum.

I have absolutely no idea what damage has been caused to whatever venue Meat had planned for Christchurch. What I do know is that it'll be very low down on the priority list to get fixed whilst they're trying to rebuild the infrastructure for parts of the city that has been severly affected. There's also 1000's of homes that are going to have to be either knocked down or remain uninhabitable for quite some time, they're going to take priority.

So yeah, there's plenty of reasons for Meat not to come.

But there is also plenty of reasons for him to come too. Everyone has to take a chance in life; there was an earthquake but that doesn't mean the whole country has to shut down and not allow shows to go on. Everything has to go on. Onwards and upwards as the saying goes. Having artists coming can only help the New Zealand economy.

[AndyK]

This thread has already had two warnings about staying on topic and has been locked, cleaned and reopened. Any more petty arguments or off topic comments will result in some time away from the forum.

[Pudding]

Here's the latest quake drum picture for Christchurch area.

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c131/NZPudding/EQ.jpg

As you can see there's still quite a lot of activity.

[Monstro]

Stupid question time Pud, would it be right to assume that the threat/risk of earthquake would affect cancellation insurance for events /concerts etc?

[Pudding]

It could affect it. Obviously if the tremors increase then there's a strong likelihood that the event could be cancelled, because having a few thousand frightened members of the public all running to the hills at the same time's going to cause a serious problem. Also there's the structural integrity of the venue itself, if the engineers don't think it's safe then there's no event there at all.

I can't imagine an insurance company insuring an event when there's a high risk of payout, and I can't imagine an artist or event organiser holding an event/concert without having insurance. :shrug:

[Steve6]

It could affect it. Obviously if the tremors increase then there's a strong likelihood that the event could be cancelled, because having a few thousand frightened members of the public all running to the hills at the same time's going to cause a serious problem. Also there's the structural integrity of the venue itself, if the engineers don't think it's safe then there's no event there at all.


It's a pity he couldn't do an outdoor concert down there, it would be a lot safer than an indoor building if the tremors were only minor.

[Pudding]

Well it seems Metallica is still playing in Christchurch ---> News Articles (http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/4149406/Quake-spurs-metal-masters-Metallica/) so fingers crossed things are looking up.

[Steve6]

Well it seems Metallica is still playing in Christchurch ---> News Articles (http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/4149406/Quake-spurs-metal-masters-Metallica/) so fingers crossed things are looking up.

Metallica will probaly cause another earthquake. :lmao:

[Vickip]

Well it seems Metallica is still playing in Christchurch ---> News Articles (http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/4149406/Quake-spurs-metal-masters-Metallica/) so fingers crossed things are looking up.

Excellent ! I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you Pud :-)

[AndrewG]

Metallica will probaly cause another earthquake. :lmao:

If not that maybe Pud's BBQ will.