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The first one was 'wow, we got away with it'. Honestly we were patting ourselves on the back at how our building codes had saved everyone. Lots of that stuff. Everyone knew that it was because of the time the first one hit - 4 in the morning. and secretly we all saw the damage that the first one cause to places that would have been filled with people during a business day lunchtime.

this was during a business day lunchtime.

The first quake was 7.1 on the richter scale, 45 km from Christchurch, at a depth of 15 km, with a ground acceleration of .8 G ( basically the sideways speed the quake goes). The latest one was 6.3 richter but 10 km from Christchurch at 5 km depth, but with a ground acceleration of 1.2 G.... this is the difference.

There was 30 million tonnes of silt came up with liquifaction last earthquake, this time it is 120- 160 million.

I am a little humbled. I just don't know how to portray the depth of it. The place is trashed. It takes 4 hours to cross a space that would usually take 15 minutes.

All this aside - New Zealand is one of the most earthquake prepared nations in the world. Things could have been so much worse.

Can only wish you NZ folks all the best and a speedy recovery!

The damage looks very severe. But the aftermath can be harder to live through. Best wishes to our NZ cousins for a quick recovery. I trust your next few weeks will be helped with world wide support and aid. I'm off to make some donations too.

It's been hard to watch the constant news coverage.....I know that the ANZAC strirt will help you all to overcome this tragic event.

My family and I are fine we live in Christchurch .... No power or water or sewer it all stuffed house has cracks right thru it and some door wont shut but liveable ... sleeping downstairs atm with kids

Yikes another big after shock

Gday Crocky

Seems like there are areas VERY badly damaged and others with only minimal damage. Hopefully it will settle down soon and you can get back to rebuilding, if its not too windy!. And only if you can entice all those tradies who fled to Cairns & Brisbane back onto the job.

I'm heading there on Wednesday and have been told (hopefully truthfully) that I'll be OK.  Heading south after a couple of days to see the sights.

PS, My wifes family name id Blair, got any Convicts in the family tree?

We ended up raising 7 million won on Friday night (that sounds like a lot, but it's actually about $6,500). A small amount, but it will hopefully make people's lives a bit easier down there.

Cheers,
CC

Now 150 people confirmed dead with a whole lot more still missing. I live on the west side of the city and everything is pretty much okay here apart from a few less chimneys than there were.
Aprezto is right in saying we were extremely lucky the first time and we all hoped the city had 'gotten away with it.' Apparently not though.

Thanks to everyone who is helping out. Its really amazing and humbling how generous people have been.

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Now 150 people confirmed dead with a whole lot more still missing. I live on the west side of the city and everything is pretty much okay here apart from a few less chimneys than there were.
Aprezto is right in saying we were extremely lucky the first time and we all hoped the city had 'gotten away with it.' Apparently not though.

Thanks to everyone who is helping out. Its really amazing and humbling how generous people have been.

Glad you are safe.

Do you guys know of any charity funds that may have been set up in case any of us might wish to help out ?

There is this of course: http://www.redcross.org.nz/cms_display.php

I found a list of places taking donations

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/promotions/ne ... d=10671104

See this blog post:

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2011/03/post-earthquake-images-of-christchurch.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/SbSV+(Google+LatLong)&utm_content=Google+Reader

One of the satellite companies is making high resolution images of Christchurch post-quake available via Google Earth. Download the KML file mentioned in the blog post (this file http://mw1.google.com/crisisresponse/2011/christchurch_earthquake/earthquake/geoeye/Christchurch_GeoEye-1_2011-02-26/Christchurch_GeoEye-1_2011-02-26.kml) and load it into Google Earth (Control-o).

ORIGINAL: Saros

I found a list of places taking donations

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/promotions/ne ... d=10671104

Just make sure they are legit, and not a phony. Happens all the time, unfortunately.

ORIGINAL: jeffk3510

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I found a list of places taking donations

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/promotions/ne ... d=10671104

Just make sure they are legit, and not a phony. Happens all the time, unfortunately.

Good advice always. I decided to just donate via the Salvation Army.

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My family and I are fine we live in Christchurch .... No power or water or sewer it all stuffed house has cracks right thru it and some door wont shut but liveable ... sleeping downstairs atm with kids

Yikes another big after shock

Crocky ! I am glad to hear that you are safe and well. For those of you who are new(ish) to this forum Crocky was one of the best players in the old days of Uncommon Valour, the grand daddy to WiTP-AE. Tis good to see some of the real old timers are still around.

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Already reported him, GP.

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Already reported him, GP.

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He did at least one more, a link to buy seeds . . . [:-]

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