Bastard earthquake!

[pzkpfw]

First time I've ever bothered to take action. After a while, I got under my desk. Biggest shake I've felt in my 40 odd years.

Funnily enough the plasterers were downstairs in my building, just this morning, scraping the walls preparing to fix the damage from 4 weeks ago.

[skippa1]

Wasn't too bad here either

[BMWST?]

Which one? because if a building is red stickered you aren't allowed to use it at all

i beleive the ctv building was red or at least yellow stickered but was cleared later

sorry i am wrong it was green stickered but none of the inspectors were engineers.A bit sobering really when in 1990 it was recognised that changes made to strengthen the building were also thought to weaken the buildings resistance to an earthquake(NZ herald)

[Naki Rat]

Wasn't too bad here either

Likewise. I was outside checking lambing sheep in the paddock below the house when things got rockin. Decided that being downhill of our 22,000 litre roofwater tank wasn't wise and moved pronto

We seem to be feeling the 6+ sized aftershocks up in the Naki. Hang in there Wellingtonions and Top of the Southers!

[pete376403]

We got quite a ride here in Upper Hutt, with fairly good aftershocks through until about 8:30pm.

Shooed the grandkids under the table for the first one. House was banging and creaking but nothing fell down.

Given up worrying about them - if the planet wants to spit me off, then its going to and thats that.

[Dangsta]

I was on the second floor of the Michael Fowler Centre when it hit. I was under the table with a really nice Irish woman who was experiencing her first quake at the time. All I could hear was "..rumble..rumble....ohhh Jeeeesus....rumble...Jeeeesus...ohhh Jeeesuss". The thing that got me was when I got out of the building into the CBD, it dawned that nowhere was safe If a big one hit the W'ton CBD then basically you're fucked. I booked it straight back to Wanga-vegas and luckily beat the traffic. Not cool at all.

[Drew]

just how much lean can the building handle before reaching tipping point.

Your building is about twenty to thirty meters square. So the top needs to move that far before it is at 'tipping point'. It'll crumble before it gets anywhere near that bro. Stay out of the stair wells, and the toilets, but get as close to the core walls as you can in a big one.

[BMWST?]

Your building is about twenty to thirty meters square. So the top needs to move that far before it is at 'tipping point'. It'll crumble before it gets anywhere near that bro. Stay out of the stair wells, and the toilets, but get as close to the core walls as you can in a big one.

The core walls are usually around the lifts and toilets so stay near the stairwell but not inside the stairwell cos it's likely the stairs themselves will come adrift


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[Drew]

The core walls are usually around the lifts and toilets so stay near the stairwell but not inside the stairwell cos it's likely the stairs themselves will come adrift

Isn't that what I said?

[BMWST?]

Isn't that what I said?

Just clarifying where the core walls will usually be


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[98tls]

Just got off the phone to my 80 year old Aunty up there,she spent all night sitting in a chair worried sick,she lives in a beautiful big old house in Hanson st thats divided into 2,she says the wall down the middle has a big crack in it the lady that owns the other 1/2 was told to get out and has done but Aunty N is to scared to ring her insurance company for fear of being moved which i can understand but jesus its a bit of a worry.Any structual engineers on here with some spare timeWhen i was talking to her there was another small shake and you could hear the fear in her voice,really shitty situation for a really lovely old lady.

[merv]

That's the prob mate. I'm on the 5th floor of an old red brick apartment building...it wobbles like fuck up there!

There was me thinking you were in a more modern building so which one are you in that is 5 stories and brick?

[Crasherfromwayback]

There was me thinking you were in a more modern building so which one are you in that is 5 stories and brick?

Masion Cabriole Cnr Of Tory St and Courtenay Place Merv.

[merv]

Masion Cabriole Cnr Of Tory St and Courtenay Place Merv.

Yeah thought you were there so is the tower block of that place an old building that had a makeover then as it always looked reasonably modern?

[merv]

We were at work and our building luckily is newish, occupied in 2008, so I have confidence in it. It just munts the plaster, ceiling tiles and separators a bit at the earthquake joints and wrinkles the carpet.

At 3pm we were down for a 45 minute group hug about work stuff anyway and funny thing was no one really wanted to talk about work stuff at that time so they just broke out the wine, crackers and cheese and chippy packets early so we had a drinksies session instead. Just don't tell the big boss eh.