On 05/09/10 18:18, Nick Rout wrote: > > And sydenham - actually anywhere with older brick style walls, > including the old firewalls you see on houses of a certain age... >
Lots of low breeze block walls down across city too & cracked somerfield stone etc where slumping occurred. esp Bexley & Kaiapoi a mess. Yes, south Chch - Somerfield & lower Cashmere - many damaged or downed chimneys, even on the hill. But higher up Cashmere, where I am, less effect - only books off shelves. A couple of sharp jolts through early this morning though. From 18 years here observing this, most Chch earthquakes don't manifest on the Port Hills / Banks Peninsula - because it is a different and most ancient rock mass (volcanic) next to Alps & Plains. But this quake is connecting signifiantly & feels like the Pacific Plate may still be in steady slow motion.. Not wanting to alarm anyone. Going to join the response now. Family and friends all well, largely unscathed. I'd say that the recent Fijordland quake tension/energy has now been passing under us and so off out to sea at the east, along the major NZ fault line proximity; but first it must get past the Hope fault and Kaikoura. Look after each other, people. -- Kind regards, Rik Tindall _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
