Bastard earthquake!

**Crasherfromwayback** · 18th August 2013, 19:47

Originally Posted by Maha

I like the way the media reports the goings on after an earth moving event ''Hundreds of cars trying to leave the city'' that happens everyday around the 5pm in Wellington.

Wait until you get a 7.9 or bigger quake, then there'll be something to report about...people sitting in bars drinking and laughing because there train is not working and clogging up the cell phone network, is not news.

The folk of Seddon however, they are the ones who are being most effect by the recent shakes, there is real damage in that small town. Same as Darfield in the September earthquake, where as Christchurch got 90% of coverage mostly about nothing.
Most house in Seddon are damaged while a few building in Wellington have 'superficial' damage.

Dude...we don't have traffic jams and issues like the folks north of the Bombays do. Trust me...the traffic jams were the worst I've seen in my fucking life here in Wellington. It was total fucking chaos.

A 7.9 you say? Have you every experienced a severe earthquake of any fucking size? The ones we've been having here...are good enough to knock you off your feet. Very similar to the ones the poor cunts in CH CH got...just not right under us. You can make light of it as much as you want...but your fucking won't when it's your turn.

**Maha** · 18th August 2013, 20:07

Originally Posted by Crasherfromwayback

Dude...we don't have traffic jams and issues like the folks north of the Bombays do. Trust me...the traffic jams were the worst I've seen in my fucking life here in Wellington. It was total fucking chaos.

A 7.9 you say? Have you every experienced a severe earthquake of any fucking size? The ones we've been having here...are good enough to knock you off your feet. Very similar to the ones the poor cunts in CH CH got...just not right under us. You can make light of it as much as you want...but your fucking won't when it's your turn.

Lived in Rotorua for many years so yeah felt enough earthquakes, late 70's there were 6 decent ones in one day, we used to feel quakes in one of the town and people in other parts wouldn't not.

The only thing I am making light of is, how the media report these events, but you would have picked up on that in the very first sentence.......eh Pete?
If you missed it, here it is again ''I like the way the media reports the goings on after an earth moving event''

**Paul in NZ** · 18th August 2013, 20:15

We got out asap and encountered minimal traffic. However there was a lot coming into town to pick people up!

Also - at least one school txt'd parents to come pick up kids when busses were still running...

In a really messy one it would be chaos...

**Paul in NZ** · 18th August 2013, 20:18

Originally Posted by Crasherfromwayback

A 7.9 you say? Have you every experienced a severe earthquake of any fucking size? The ones we've been having here...are good enough to knock you off your feet. Very similar to the ones the poor cunts in CH CH got...just not right under us. You can make light of it as much as you want...but your fucking won't when it's your turn.

Don't stress pete - if the big wellington fault hits it will be very different to chch and the ones we recently had. Thats mainly down to the geology. One things for sure the dumbarse mayor wont be sitting on TV bleating about how much more resilient wellington is...

**Ocean1** · 18th August 2013, 20:27

Originally Posted by Paul in NZ

Don't stress pete - if the big wellington fault hits it will be very different to chch and the ones we recently had. Thats mainly down to the geology. One things for sure the dumbarse mayor wont be sitting on TV bleating about how much more resilient wellington is...

Will we get to tar and feather the fuckwits that insisted on rebuilding the hospital on the wrong side of the fault line? Do we get to string up the ones that failed to manage a backup route out of town?

**AllanB** · 18th August 2013, 20:45

There was a geo specialist at work doing a talk some time back (I've been knee deep in the earthquake scene since changing jobs post Feb 2011) who said 'when' the Southern Alps go it will be on a very defined slip plain of vertical movement so not expected to have the violence we got in CHCH. However they predict CHCH will experience a rolling effect that may last over three minutes ............

**BMWST?** · 18th August 2013, 21:40

Originally Posted by Ocean1

Will we get to tar and feather the fuckwits that insisted on rebuilding the hospital on the wrong side of the fault line? Do we get to string up the ones that failed to manage a backup route out of town?

What's the right side of the fault line?

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**Berries** · 18th August 2013, 21:49

Originally Posted by BMWST?

What's the right side of the fault line?

South of the Waitaki.

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**Crasherfromwayback** · 18th August 2013, 21:54

Originally Posted by Maha

Lived in Rotorua for many years so yeah felt enough earthquakes, late 70's there were 6 decent ones in one day, we used to feel quakes in one of the town and people in other parts wouldn't not.

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Good for you mate. But I can't for the life of me remember Rotorua getting a series of 6 plus shakes in the 70's. As I said...get back to me when you do. The poor folks of CH CH will tell you all about it. Theirs were right under them.

**tigertim20** · 18th August 2013, 21:54

Originally Posted by BMWST?

What's the right side of the fault line?

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colorado?

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**Ocean1** · 18th August 2013, 22:03

Originally Posted by BMWST?

What's the right side of the fault line?

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The other side.

The side closest to the geographic centre of the population served by the hospital. The side more likely to be accessible in the event of a disaster. The side that would have cost less in which to develop a new facility.

Not the side on which a vast gaggle of consultants maintain their offices and practices, and who would have been somewhat inconvenienced by any move to, say the Kenepuru campus, to take a wild swing at a completely random example.

Had to be one of the most transparently politically driven pieces of toadyism and general old-boy's club bullshit ever seen in this country.

**T.W.R** · 18th August 2013, 22:57

Originally Posted by AllanB

There was a geo specialist at work doing a talk some time back (I've been knee deep in the earthquake scene since changing jobs post Feb 2011) who said 'when' the Southern Alps go it will be on a very defined slip plain of vertical movement so not expected to have the violence we got in CHCH. However they predict CHCH will experience a rolling effect that may last over three minutes ............

They can't really predict anything when it's comes to quakes

The Geo specialist would have been using a lot of theory based on what happened in 68 with the Inangahua quake

that was a magnitude 7.1 and shock ChCh for quite a while, was felt in Otago & most of the Nth island (according to GeoNet intensities of MM4 were felt that far afield & at least MM10 at Inangahua).
But that's it; all theory no one quake is the same as the next, we're just here for the ride

**BMWST?** · 18th August 2013, 23:00

Originally Posted by T.W.R

Inangahua quake

that was a magnitude 7.1 and shock ChCh for quite a while, was felt in Otago & most of the Nth island (according to GeoNet intensities of MM4 were felt that far afield & at least MM10 at Inangahua).

Was a good shake in welly that one

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**AllanB** · 18th August 2013, 23:02

True, but the difference is the Alps have a well defined 'slip' area when the move, the last big one had movement of 1 meter vertically!

I do agree with you though - darn thing could 'slip' twice that next time. Any lengthy ground shaking in ChCh worries me - we will end up below sea level!