Christchurch Earthquake

[Aloysius]

Won't be a great day for people out Christmas shopping or working in town.

[Speakman]

Definitely glad today was my first day off, if I was working woulda been out near the port hills :/

[Lias]

Bugger.. hope everyone is okay.

[Catalyst]

5.8 apparently, will probably change though

[Retardobot]

People in Chch, is it really as bad as the news is pissing on about?

[Spigalau]

People in Chch, is it really as bad as the news is pissing on about?

[14:19] immorta|: was more of a rolling one .. which is far less damaging than the violent/shakey/jolty ones
[14:21] immorta|: it wasnt "that bad" ... but people will be feaking as it'll expose a few raw emotions in ppl

[Aloysius]

Dunno, wait and see?

I tend to stick written news so you can skip all the... excessive bits.

More demoralising than anything I guess.

[Emrico1]

Geezus Chch, stop shaking already fffuuuuuuuu

[Spork]

Geezus Chch, stop shaking already fffuuuuuuuu

It's just getting the final shake out of the way, so the new year can be embraced with no shakes.

[Retardobot]

[14:19] immorta|: was more of a rolling one .. which is far less damaging than the violent/shakey/jolty ones
[14:21] immorta|: it wasnt "that bad" ... but people will be feaking as it'll expose a few raw emotions in ppl

Cheers Spig.

Pretty much as I expected. Stupid NZ Media Hype Machine has been engaged again.

[Catalyst]

well seeing as 182 people died in February Retardo its hardly a surprise

[Xsannz]

mmm rolled and bumped --- 5.8 but suspect a downgrade shortly

[Growler]

more mud! Best xmas present ever!!!

Back to my shovel.

[Retardobot]

well seeing as 182 people died in February Retardo its hardly a surprise

Oh, I'm not for a second trying to oppress the way people should be behaving in this situation considering what's happened in the past.

However I am hating on he media for the way they're hypeing it, effectively heightening the emotional stress that people really don't need.

[Growler]

was a BIG shake, not a violent shake like feb was, some very big movement though.

[Speakman]

it lasted quite a while as well, can be damaging to already half-fucked buildings

[kookynic]

Build house on marsh = earthquake mud

[Kopfjaeger]

heard lots of shit crashing in the house....nothing major though, was a good shake

[Xenolightning]

I heard there were reports of liquefaction bubbling up.

[Speakman]

a second big one just before, possibly stronger than the previous

[Catalyst]

that one was definitely more violent. just went round the house taking down pc monitors/tv's

[Kopfjaeger]

windows have recovered from an unexpected shutdown.......

i was hanging onto the box while the monitors were shaking there tail

jesus that was another good jolt

[bitchimom]

so. fucking. over. it.

when will it stop? huh? And yeah, in some ways it was as bad as they're making it out to be on the news... not so bad for me personally - I was driving for the first one but at home for its bigger friend... that was NOT fun. Geonet stubbornly refuses to update but I'm thinking that last big one was bigger then the earlier big one. And there's been others in between. Fuckn earthquake swarms...

just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...

[Robby06]

Just got back from checking my house on the East side of town...its pretty bad over there, loads of broken roads and liquefaction...bottom of pages road is filling up with water again, Bower ave is again riddled with huge sinkholes....talking with a dozen or so neighbours outside my house there was a definite shift from the "defiant" attitude from previous quakes in my opinion...a lot more downcast and sullen this time around.

[kookynic]

Eeek

I didnt feel a thing in the Wairarapa