That definitely puts our snowstrom in perspective. On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: > Yikes, do take care Dave! Cheers, Christine > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Mann" <[email protected]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2010 10:31 PM > Subject: PESO: Still not over yet... > > >> 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 >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. >
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