didn't the February quake shunt the port hills up a fair bit?Originally Posted by AllanB
the square is already 2m below sea level anyhow, probably more now
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didn't the February quake shunt the port hills up a fair bit?
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the spire had been down a couple times due to earthquakes over its life. We are slow learners down here apparently........
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Ha move south of the Rakaia. Half a km past Chertsey towards Ashburton is the highest point on the southern rail road same height above sea level as what the cathedral spire used to be
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Parts were knocked off by the 1888 North Canterbury Earthquake and the 1901 Cheviot Earthquake, I don think any damage was done by the Inangahua EarthquakePretty sure in knocked the spire off the cathedral in chch actually
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."
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Learnt about the Cheviot one (6.9) at school although it should really be called the Parnassus earthquake and I was reading the story board about the Cathedral in the square two weeks ago
Just did a refresher and found some reports of liquifaction in Kaiapoi from the 1901 in the areas which are now fucked
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."
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the regularity of them is a shock too.
The liquifaction is to be expected though all bloody swamp land so what do they expect if they keep building on it
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Surprisingly, it was my experience that the lighter bikes faired better. Your mileage will vary though.
The talk of richter scale values doesn't mean a whole lot... we learnt it was very much depth, location, and whole heap of underground shit you can't see, that dictated how much of a beating you got. Especially depth. A 7.9 at 200km deep wouldn't excite much.
FWIW, none of the Chch earthquakes managed to get anywhere near taking me off my feet, but that was more likely circumstances than anything else. Plenty of people have mentioned to me being unsteady, don't recall anyone going over though.
Bolt your shit down Pete. It's all replaceable, unless it lands on you and kills you, and that, we do not want.
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Yeah think I've got the serious stuff all sorted now cheers.
one placenta
...the notion of what is 'serious', changes somewhat after being part of the loss, death, destruction that was visited on us down here.....sometimes it's the little, not so serious bits that add up to losing a lot...I can honestly say that a lot of what I thought was serious shit before, not just stuff and things, but ideas, notions and your place in the scheme of things, change...radically sometimes...people are far more important and being totally powerless to do anything about anything is a somewhat terrifying and gut wrenching feeling...I lost no one close to me but knew a couple of those who died, well, but I never knew what real terror was until I couldn't account for my family for over four hours...it still makes me shudder to think of those hours...you can only prepare and hope like fuck...I'm hoping like fuck that you dont have to find out...Kia Kaha to all up at the top of the South and you lot across the ditch...
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Yeah I can only imagine mate. And cheers.
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Sept 4th managed to throw me 4ft clear of my bed where I was sleeping till I heard the noise before the shake actually hit
3 bikes in the garage at the time; a CBR600, GSXR11, & my 1100F, the F was the only one that stayed upright both the CBR & Gixxer fell The F is somewhere over 270kg wet
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There ya go... that shit just can't be predicted!
For me 'serious' is anything that will eat me. Everything else is the insurance companies problem. Only real concern I had during the September one was tiles coming through the ceiling. Didn't happen, but croncrete... wouldn't have been a fun time.
Enjoy them whilst you can Pete, you can't pay for this sort of fun
In the riders seat
Very common, I was reading reports from the early settlers back in the mid to late 1800s
We had a English tourist in at work when the Feb one hit, his comment was "we dont get shit like this at home"
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."
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