Earth quake in NZ

[todd54]

Just aquick message to all distillers in NZ. Hope all are safe and sound down under.

[MuleKicker]

A strong earthquake of 7.4 magnitude hit New Zealand, just 4 miles (7 km) southeast of Christchurch, in the middle of the night local time, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Friday.

Shit. Thats damn close to kiwi. Hope all is well..

[blind drunk]

Hope all are safe and sound down under.

plus 1

take care, bd.

[ScottishBoy]

7.4...Hmmm thats enough to do some damage. Hope you all are okay.

[Samohon]

Yeah, hope all you NZers are ok...

[Mud Mechanik]

Damm natural disasters, Hurricane Katrina hit my home in 05' and now an earthquake hit NZ, I hope everyone made it through. MM

[rednose]

Wow, 7.4 is huge.

We had a 7.1 three weeks ago, I felt like totally drunk when it occured but didn't even have a sip.

I hope nobody of our members and families got hurt, neither other folks, this kind of events are damn horrible.

Joe

[todd54]

Looks like things are pretty bad in NZ.

[rednose]

I just googled about that but they say it was only 4.7, can someone confirm?

4.7 we have two each month or so, you almost don't feel it.

What makes it strong in NZ is that it occured in few deph, only 25 km.

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[theholymackerel]

Eww.

I hope thats not un-reinforced masonry i'm lookin' at in that pic.

That's what kills most folks in earthquakes. Also the fact that the eartquake will break the gas lines at the same time it breaks all the water mains... then ya get HUGE fires and no way to put em out.

[todd54]

Pics from national post. But news is just starting to come in CNN is on top of story, even had telephone report from a guy in NZ.

[Teddysad]

Quake is confirmed as 7.4

Christchurch is the major city of the South Island (on the east coast about 1/3 of the way down the island)

At this stage quite a lot of damage mainly to older especially brick and masonary buildings and colateral damage to cars etc hit by falling debris but no reported major casualties damage to people.

Here in NZ quakes (normally smaller) are not uncommon we are sometimes known as the Shakey Isles.

We tend to take it pragmatically as it's earthquakes and movements over time have given us so much of our spectacular scenery. We have several active volcanos and lively geothermal areas around the country.

In many cities especially Wellington - the Capital which is on a major fault line there has been a lot of strengthening and rebuilding of buildings but the smaller less vulnerable places have not fared so well (or deemed necessary to spend for a random situation)

Looks like the insurance companies and the earthquake commission ( yes we have one) are going to be busy

Further update - experts are now rating this as within top two worst in the last 100 years for our part of the world. Talking to relatives / family down there they lave lost a lot of stuff - breakages from glassware and crockery being thrown around the rooms etc but still only minor injuries to people and no reported loss of life. I was by all accounts a frightening experience at 4 in the morning

Ted

[Bull Rider]

Saying a prayer for you folks down under in Kiwi land, and a special bump for the HD board members. Hoping to hear that you guys are OK.

I have room to store your product to help get you through this difficult time...

[kiwistiller]

Lots of breakage down there I'd expect, but no loss of life that anyone's heard of, just a couple of injuries - think it probably looks worse than it really is, there are a lot of old stone facades and the like in chch. Hope none of our chch members lost any prized bottles, though! Virtually all my family was out of chch for the weekend, though apparently it was still quite a shake in Nelson / Dunedin.

there's a video on this page of the damage if anyone is interested... and hey, everyone likes looking at destruction

[MuleKicker]

Good to here yer ok kiwi........Thought maybe your still blew up or something

[ScottishBoy]

Nice to hear from you kiwi.....

[kiwistiller]

Good to here yer ok kiwi........Thought maybe your still blew up or something

Yeah, I moved north from there last year - Aucklands a long way from christchurch. don't think it was even felt here. I certainly didn't wake up, anyway

[MuleKicker]

ah shit. I never noticed that... Thought you were still in chistichurch.

[marc83]

Has been downgraded to 7.1 now,thats still a big quake.33km deep.Apparently felt as far north as New Plymouth.Lots and lots of damage mainly to alot of old buildings,cracks in roads,damage to vehicles etc.Reports of some flattened buildings closer to the epicentre though.

[EuroStiller]

Cars anr property can be fixed/ replaced/ etc. So long as the injury and death counts are low!

Best of luck and Prayers!

From one shaky area dweller to another!

ES

[Teddysad]

Very lucky so far - no deaths 2 serious injuries - 1 from a chimney falling on him!

There were 2 quakes - the first was 7.4 and this was followed by an aftershock of 7.1

The fact is happened at 4:30 AM helped a lot as 8 hours earlier they city centre would have been full of people in restaurants etc many of which are now in ruins

[GreyGambler]

hope all are safe and well

[marc83]

http://www.geonet.org.nz/news/article-s ... quake.html

[HookLine]

Glad you HD Enzedders are all okay.

[Kentucky shinner]

Glad to here you ok Kiwi. I hope all of our New Zelanders are doing good.

[rubber duck]

A 7.1 is enough to knock a lot of likker off the shelf.

[kiwistiller]

Quite a lot, as it happens.

[father william]

You know, Kiwi, if I was close to that liquor store I'd offer to help clean the place up in exchange for some of the unsalable but still sealed product.

Just a thought.

Glad everyone down there is basically ok. Buildings you can replace, people not so easily.

[todd54]

Thats right father William we'll scoop it all up into a big strainer remove big pieces of glass don't pour into the sewers I'll take good care of the liquid and see to it is disposed of with the least possible inconvenience to the greater public. I would feel it's my civic duty to do so. Get every wee dram,use a mop if ya have to.

[MuleKicker]

Looks like the makins of one hell of a WOP. So I just saw there was a second earthquake in NZ, this time near Aukland? Is that true Kiwi? Hope all is well