Last I heard is there have been two fatalities but details are pretty scant. I think Wellington had more damage than we did; the USGS info seems to indicate the quake propagated northwards. You're right about Kaikoura. The coastal highway north of there is very scenic. Good whale-watching just off the coast as well.
I was wondering if our Anglican Cathedral might have finally collapsed but there's been nothing in the news so I suppose it must still be standing. I heard there's a bushfire not far from you, hopefully that comes under control quickly. Cheers, Dave > On Nov 14, 2016, at 10:15 AM, Brian Walters <supera1...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > I heard about the quake just before we went to bed last night - glad to > hear that Christchurch seems to have escaped serious damage. I wondered > about Kaikoura - I remember it as a beautiful coastal town with majestic > snow-capped mountains to the west. I hope damage there is minimal and > that no lives have been lost. > > > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016, at 08:07 AM, David Mann wrote: >> Thanks for the thoughts, everyone. GNS revised their reading to 7.5 so >> it was a pretty big one. I went back to bed around 3am and haven't >> noticed anything since. It's nice when it's far enough away that you >> don't get aftershocks waking you up every few minutes. >> >> Looks like there's a bit of destruction around the Kaikoura region. >> Might be a while before the roads reopen up there as there are a couple >> of broken bridges and impressive landslides. >> >> Tsunami-wise we may have dodged a bullet as the area off the Kaikoura >> coast is known to be prone to underwater landslides. A small one was >> generated and looking at a tide gauge it appears that the sea bed may >> have been lifted by about 700mm (27.5") by the quake. >> >> Cheers, >> Dave >> >>> On Nov 14, 2016, at 7:11 AM, Daniel J. Matyola <danmaty...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Glad to hear your are safe. >>> Sounds like a real disaster. >>> >>> Dan Matyola >>> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >>> >>> On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 7:45 AM, David Mann <dmann...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Just reporting in safe & well after another decent shake. It wasn't too >>>> intense but seemed to go on for a long time. >>>> >>>> GNS have it at 6.6 but USGS say 7.4. It was a little way north from here >>>> but was enough to wake up half the country. Our baby slept right through, >>>> daddy will be awake for a while yet :) We're feeling the larger aftershocks >>>> but they're pretty gentle by the time they reach us. I don't expect any >>>> damage to our place. >>>> >>>> I really would prefer it if these damn things would happen during the day! >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Dave >>>> -- > > > -- > -- > > -- > http://www.fastmail.com - The way an email service should be > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
