A 6.8 Richter level earthquake has struck 50km SE of the city of Gisborne on New Zealand's North Island at 07.55 UTC, December 20.
There are 3 AM stations in the city. From monitoring in Wellington, 1485 BSport is on air carrying network programs, 1314 RNZ National Radio is on air carrying network programs, 945 NewstalkZB is on air with obvious technical difficulties and is currently [1000 UTC] carrying the Gisborne FM feed for Classic Hits. It has also had live studio announcements from Gisborne with eye-witness reports and is not on the normal NewstalkZB feed. It sounds to be operating on full power [2kW] at times, and less [maybe 500w] at other times. No casualties are reported, major building collapses in the CBD have occured [at least 3], and roading damage is widespread. Water is secure, power is being returned, phone service was overloaded and now returning to normal. Widespread damage to buildings across the urban area [shelves collapsing, windows broken etc]. No tsunami has resulted from the earthquake, which was felt as far away as Dunedin at the southern end of the South Island. No major aftershocks reported as of 1010 UTC. David Ricquish Radio Heritage Foundation www.radioheritage.net ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Preorder your WRTH 2007: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2007 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html