New Zealand struck by 7.4 earthquake!

mike65 · 03-09-2010 05:04PM #1

Not a thread subject line I thought I'd ever type! Just a few miles from Christchurch (4/5 am there).

KeithM89_old · 03-09-2010 05:05PM

Shocking...

/sorry

03-09-2010 05:06PM

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010atbj.php

FearDark · 03-09-2010 05:07PM

Hold F11... thread gets funnier.

Shzm · 03-09-2010 05:08PM

Geonet is reporting 7.4

http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/quakes/3366146g.html

Diabhal Beag · 03-09-2010 05:08PM

If there are any Boardsies with family over there I hope they're OK.

mike65 · 03-09-2010 05:08PM

Ah 7.2 - hardly worth falling out of bed for.

Wagon · 03-09-2010 05:09PM

FearDark wrote: »

Hold F11... thread gets funnier.

You're a fúcking genius

ejmaztec · 03-09-2010 05:09PM

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

If there are any Boardsies with family over there I hope they're OK.

A cousin of mine moved there for the crack.

MaybeLogic · 03-09-2010 05:16PM

Residents of Christchurch are said to be shaken by the experience.

El Horseboxo · 03-09-2010 05:21PM

I'd love to have sex during an earthquake. Just throw it in and let nature take it's course.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 03-09-2010 05:26PM

El Horseboxo wrote: »

I'd love to have sex during an earthquake. Just throw it in and let nature take it's course.

Probably just like slapping the arse of a fat chic (if you had to stomach to ride one) and riding the wave's.

_feedback_ · 03-09-2010 05:27PM

Lads, jokes in a thread like this is just shocking. Just shake after hours up a bit and give some serious replies.

*I'm cracking up at the puns

Celly Smunt · 03-09-2010 05:28PM

lads stop cracking jokes come on,this has really shaken me

_feedback_ · 03-09-2010 05:30PM

Bentley Thankful Shortbread wrote: »

Probably just like slapping the arse of a fat chic (if you had to stomach to ride one) and riding the wave's.

Well, it was a 7.4, so you'd need to call the fat chic by her sisters name too.

Red Hand · 03-09-2010 05:32PM

FearDark wrote: »

Hold F11... thread gets funnier.

Brilliant!

The rest of ye should be ashamed...yer about as funny as a c*ck in a breadbun.

WindSock · 03-09-2010 06:04PM

Can't get in touch with people there at the moment

. Hope everyone is ok.

mikom · 03-09-2010 06:06PM

" Quick everybody, take shelter in the stationary store"

MagicMarker · 03-09-2010 06:06PM

Won't somebody please think of the sheep!

Herb Powell · 03-09-2010 06:21PM

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »

Brilliant!

The rest of ye should be ashamed...yer about as funny as a c*ck in a breadbun.

I laughed at that

bnt · 03-09-2010 07:03PM

The USGS has downgraded it to a 7.0 magnitude. Whenever I hear about a major earthquake, my first stop is the USGS PAGER page for the quake: it estimates how many people were affected, and how badly. According to that, about 10,000 people west of Christchurch got the worst of it - not much news yet.

The other metric I look at is the depth of the earthquake. This one was centrered 12km down, which is shallow, and that correlates with a lot of shaking at ground level. The Haiti earthquake back in January was a little deeper (16km).

Adyx · 03-09-2010 07:34PM

Doesn't Rabies live in NZ too?

bakedbean · 03-09-2010 07:37PM

Apparently a caller on national radio described it as "wiggity wiggity jiggity jig"

dlofnep · 03-09-2010 08:15PM

I take it NZ doesn't normally get quakes?

Coriolanus · 03-09-2010 08:19PM

bakedbean wrote: »

Apparently a caller on national radio described it as "wiggity wiggity jiggity jig"

Jesus. Must have been an Australian on holidays, or do the Kiwis make up nonsense words too?

Wolfe Tone · 03-09-2010 08:23PM

dlofnep wrote: »

I take it NZ doesn't normally get quakes?

The country experiences more than 14,000 earthquakes a year, of which only around 20 have a magnitude in excess of 5.0.

From BBC.

robinph · 03-09-2010 08:27PM

dlofnep wrote: »

I take it NZ doesn't normally get quakes?

There was a 7.6'ish one down there last year at about this time when I was there. Most of them you'd not notice though.

bakedbean wrote: »

Apparently a caller on national radio described it as "wiggity wiggity jiggity jig"

Sounds about right.

The_Joker. · 03-09-2010 08:39PM

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/read/index.php?pageid=seism_read&rid=186647

amacachi · 03-09-2010 08:45PM

http://www.newsroomamerica.com/story/50397/national_emergency_declared_in_new_zealand_after_christchurch_earthquake_.html

Sounds a bit more serious than I thought it would be. Looks like the whole world shares one thing, as soon as **** goes down ya start looting.

Terry · 03-09-2010 08:49PM

The only person I know living there is Rabies, and I only know him from his posts here.
I hope he's ok. He seems like a really nice person.

Hopefully nobody was seriously hurt or killed.

In honour of Rabies, I'm going to F11 this thread. I know he'd see the funny side.

GizAGoOfYerGee · 03-09-2010 09:01PM

I was going to crack a joke but I thought I´d wait for the dust to settle.

robinph · 03-09-2010 09:08PM

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4094986/Massive-7-4-quake-hits-Christchurch

WindSock · 03-09-2010 09:42PM

Terry wrote: »

The only person I know living there is Rabies, and I only know him from his posts here.
I hope he's ok. He seems like a really nice person.

Hopefully nobody was seriously hurt or killed.

In honour of Rabies, I'm going to F11 this thread. I know he'd see the funny side.

Rabies is in Auckland, afaik. Got in touch with OH's family there before. Thankfully they are ok. Only the TV fell off the shelf and through the floor and the local BP collapsed. We were quite worried for a bit as the news named his mams street and said it was torn up :eek:

admiralofthefleet · 03-09-2010 10:06PM

hope rabies is ok and any other boards folk over there

WindSock · 03-09-2010 10:18PM

Some pics

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4095395/Earthquake-hits-the-South-Island

King Felix · 03-09-2010 10:22PM

WindSock wrote: »

Some pics

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4095395/Earthquake-hits-the-South-Island

Amazing no-one was killed.

Mr Benevolent · 03-09-2010 10:24PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

A cousin of mine moved there for the crack.

Can he get heroin as well?

Ben Hadad · 03-09-2010 11:02PM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

hope rabies is ok and any other boards folk over there

Do you hope very one else died?

Dyr · 03-09-2010 11:03PM

King Felix wrote: »

Amazing no-one was killed.

With a population of sweet f**k all it is'nt really

admiralofthefleet · 03-09-2010 11:05PM

Ben Hadad wrote: »

Do you hope very one else died?

of course not, i never said that. i was wishing the people on boards that are over there the best

mink_man · 04-09-2010 12:50AM

lol..funny that when I made a joke about a disabled person dying I get absolutely roasted, yet people making jokes about this and more than one person dying.

watna · 04-09-2010 12:54AM

Actually, there are no reports of fatalities yet but the pictures are pretty crazy. It woke us up and we're quite far north of that on a different island. (We're in Wellington).

Scary stuff. I've checked the earthquake kit to make sure we have enough of everything. They're been predicting a big one that will flatten Wellington to happen soon for the last 20 years.

mink_man · 04-09-2010 01:12AM

watna wrote: »

Actually, there are no reports of fatalities yet but the pictures are pretty crazy. It woke us up and we're quite far north of that on a different island. (We're in Wellington).

Scary stuff. I've checked the earthquake kit to make sure we have enough of everything. They're been predicting a big one that will flatten Wellington to happen soon for the last 20 years.

I stand corrected...

JONJO THE MISER · 04-09-2010 01:16AM

:eek: Just saw this now, the pictures look really bad, hope no one was killed.

robinph · 04-09-2010 08:58AM

Opposite side of the South Island from Christchurch, but was a crash of a skydiving plane today at Fox Glacier with nine dead:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11186173

bonerm · 04-09-2010 09:22AM

That's crazy. I was out there a few years ago and it seems like a real peaceful quiet city. I'd say the quake woke em up! :eek:

I loved those sunscreen/rainprotectors they had on the outside of CBD buildings in Aus/Nz. I always figured they were part of the building structure itself. I guess not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Worcester_corner_Manchester.jpg

Remind me not to walk under one of them in future.

New Zealand struck by 7.4 earthquake!

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