Dave I heard that news in what was the middle of the night here.... and
thought _ geez, Dave is probably just getting readjusted to
unshaking ground...
David Mann wrote:
Hi all,
I was going to write something yesterday but decided not to. But now that I
have some photos I thought I may as well.
We had a magnitude 4.9 aftershock at about 10:30 yesterday morning local time
(Boxing Day). It was centered very close to the CBD, in fact it seems to be
about half a km from my mother's house.
We were in the art gallery at the time, having a look at the Ron Mueck
sculpture exhibition. That building is about the best place to be - it was
used as the centre of operations for Civil Defence during the period after the
main 7.1 quake. It's fairly new and very sturdy.
It'd been about a month since we'd had anything really noticeable and a jolt
like that was a bit of a wakeup. It was sizable enough to close a number of
historic buildings and part of the city pedestrian mall. I haven't looked
closely but I don't think there's any extra damage at home. We had one small
ornament topple over.
Anyway, today we went to see the other exhibition that we couldn't go to
yesterday as its building had been closed. I'd heard there had been some
damage to the aquarium building in Cathedral Square so I took my camera and
here are some photos.
http://www.multi.net.nz/dec-26-aftershock/
This is the only building in the square which had obvious visible damage after
the main quake so I'm not really surprised that those bricks came down.
Cheers,
Dave
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