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Nudge
Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 8:36 pm
by mite5255
Hi Nudge, how are they going down in Christchurch, I believe they are having a few more aftershocks. It must be very worrying living there not knowing when the next ones going to hit. Mate of mine was travailing around the south Island a few months back and reckons its the most picturesque place he has ever seen
Mike
Re: Nudge
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 11:57 am
by Nudge
Ive been quite lucky. I live in Auckland in the north Island, so I'm too far away to feel any of the shaking.
I know a lot of people that live in Christchurch, most of them are at wits end and if they could move they would do it in a heart beat.
You want to look up what Christchurch looked like before the shakes, and see what it looks like now! There in not a lot left.
Re: Nudge
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:15 pm
by mite5255
Yes Their nerves would be just a shot by now, hope it settles down soon. Do they have the same problem all over the South Island
Mike
Re: Nudge
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 2:30 am
by Nudge
Not quite the entire South Island, but a good part of it. I just hope it cant swim too well! I like the ground nice and still.
Re: Nudge
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 3:35 am
by mite5255
Nudge wrote:Not quite the entire South Island, but a good part of it. I just hope it cant swim too well! I like the ground nice and still.
Yea Nudge I like the ground being nice and still also, I have only ever felt one earth tremor and that was in about 1977, it only lasted a few seconds but it did wake me up at the time
Mike
Re: Nudge
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 11:38 pm
by Harry
I live in California, land of the earthquakes so they dont bother me. Have never been a huge one though so that could change. A couple years back we were having swarms of 2s and 3s that were coming as close as 5 minutes apart for a couple weeks with some 4s and a 5 or two thrown in for good measure. Havent had much action this year so I guess tension is building, I think the geothermal plant up north of here causes some of this with all the cold water they are pumping into the ground.
Re: Nudge
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 5:28 pm
by Rasper
We have a lot of them down here in Mexico as well. They register fairly high on the scale, but where I am the Earth under us is solid rock so everything moves in the same direction, unlike up in Mexico City where the whole place is built on fill. It's like jelly.
Richard