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| Thread ID: 112388 | 2010-09-03 21:04:00 | Quake in Christchurch. | Cicero (40) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1134417 | 2010-09-03 23:52:00 | Hope everyone in Christchurch is OK, and stay safe :) | stu161204 (123) | ||
| 1134418 | 2010-09-03 23:53:00 | Photos: www.weatherwatch.co.nz | stu161204 (123) | ||
| 1134419 | 2010-09-03 23:58:00 | Hopefully youse guys are all OK. I just heard about - been playing bass all afternoon here. We had a tiny one - 2.9 this 02:12 morning, |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1134420 | 2010-09-04 00:22:00 | I felt it abit down here in Mosgiel, but nothing was damaged | goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1134421 | 2010-09-04 00:38:00 | Hopefully youse guys are all OK . I just heard about - been playing bass all afternoon here . We had a tiny one - 2 . 9 this 02:12 morning, Hi SJ, ours downgraded to 7 to 7 . 1, getting plenty of after shocks right now 11 . 25am Pacific time . California gets far more than Canterbury, your fault line much longer and deeper . Water is going to be tankered in and rationed . Lurking . |
Lurking (218) | ||
| 1134422 | 2010-09-04 02:06:00 | Hope all of you that are in the Christchurch area are OK. | QW. (15883) | ||
| 1134423 | 2010-09-04 04:50:00 | It seems the more 'spectacular' damage is from entire brick walls toppling. Also of interest, is that studying the photos seems to show that in the majority of cases it is a double layered wall of bricks that has fallen. Perhaps it's just the nature of bricks (high mass, zero flexibility) which makes them part ways during a side-to-side shake, or is this more an example of sloppy construction standards, and/or one layer of bricks put up on the cheap to hide an even dodgier layer of bricks? On the other hand, maybe it is also a factor of the old historic buildings that make parts of ChCh so beautiful. In hindsight, perhaps bricks are great for their low, low maintenance, but are not suited to areas succeptible to shakes. The geonet website even shows the quake and aftershocks clearly registered up in Whangarei... not that we've felt anything up here in the North. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1134424 | 2010-09-04 04:58:00 | How many modern buildings do you see using bricks as a structural member? Bricks are good for dressing up houses and little else. Back in the day the mortar would have been a mixture of sand and lime, and the rain washes away the lime, leaving a wall built out of thousands of little blocks with a layer of sand. The only thing holding up those walls for the last 50 years has been gravity. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1134425 | 2010-09-04 04:59:00 | But never fear, the wooden structures in those old crappers will be past their use-by date as well. | Metla (12) | ||
| 1134426 | 2010-09-04 05:03:00 | Well, it woke me up - in Invercargill... | R.M. (561) | ||
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