On 4/09/2010 12:48 p.m., Ofnuts wrote:
On 04/09/2010 02:46, Me wrote:
We had a magnitude 7.1 earthquake, epicentre close (25 miles) from my
home in (Christchurch NZ) at about 4:30 this morning. It was a very rude
way to start the day. The largest quake I'd felt before - when close to
the epicentre - was about magnitude 5.9.
Many aftershocks, even as I type this.
No reported deaths, and only two reported serious injuries, despite
close proximity to a city of ~400,000 people.
This quake was about the same magnitude as Port-Au-Prince.

Take pictures :-)


There's almost nothing to see around where I live, a few masonry garden
walls damaged, some brick facades of old buildings and old brick
chimneys down, cracks / distortions in the roads that aren't
particularly unusual or interesting - except they weren't there yesterday.
It's a really beautiful "normal" spring morning - it seems very strange.