Powerful earthquake rocks Christchurch (5.5 and 6.0)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: The Press

BREAKING NEWS: The shattered city of Christchurch has been rocked again by two damaging earthquakes this afternoon, measuring magnitude 6 and 5.5.

The magnitude 5.5 quake struck at 1pm, 10 kilometres east of Christchurch at Taylor's Mistake beach, at a depth of 11 kilometres, and sent people scrambling for cover.

The magnitude 6 quake followed at 2.20pm and was centred 10 kilometres southeast of the city, at a depth of 9km.

Read more: http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/christchurch-earthquake-2011/5136644/Powerful-earthquake-rocks-Christchurch

[girl gone mad]

1. That ring of fire..

just won't settle down.

[Poll_Blind]

2. Picture of a car swallowed by liquefaction in Christchurch here:

HERE

I found this on Google's Real-Time feed. My thoughts are with them.

PB

[Violet_Crumble]

3. The link didn't work, PB...

There's reports of people trapped in buildings in the centre of the city where rebuilding's happening. I hope there's not too many injuries or damages from these aftershocks...

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/three-big-quakes-hit-new-zealand-city-of-christchurch/story-e6frfku0-1226074262234

[Poll_Blind]

4. That's weird, both links I posted are still working for me. Here it is:

:hi:

PB

[robdogbucky]

5. Two more earthquakes hit New Zealand

Source: NHK English World News

Two more earthquakes hit New Zealand

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck southern New Zealand.

The US Geological Survey says the quake struck at 2:20 PM on Monday 13 kilometers north-northeast of Christchurch, at a relatively shallow depth.

Japan's Meteorological Agency says there is no danger of tsunami.

A magnitude 5.2 tremor had hit the area 1 hour and 20 minutes earlier.

Monday, June 13, 2011 12:44 +0900 (JST)

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/13_16.html



Read more: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/13_16.html

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Tick-tock, Tick-tock

[robdogbucky]

6. New Zealand hit by another strong earthquake

June 13, 2011 1:00 AM

New Zealand hit by another strong earthquake

(AP)
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A series of aftershocks shook the quake-weary New Zealand city of Christchurch on Monday, bringing down at least one building and briefly trapping two people inside a damaged church.

Power was cut to about 10,000 homes in the city's eastern suburbs, and dust billowed from the cordoned-off city center devastated in February's major earthquake. More than 80 percent of the building's in the central city's "red zone" were damaged in that disaster, including more than 700 that cannot be salvaged. "We are being enveloped with dust. It is very, very scary," Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker told New Zealand's National Radio.

Rocks tumbled from hills in the eastern suburbs, where the earthquake also pushed up a watery silt that is created during some quakes, a process called liquefaction. The city's airport was closed so the runways could be inspected but there did not immediately appear to be damage, Air New Zealand spokeswoman Marie Hosking said...

...All across Christchurch, people fled buildings in panic when a 5.2-magnitude quake struck during lunchtime; just over an hour later, a 6.0 was recorded, according to the U.S. Geological Survey...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/12/501364/main20070737.shtml

[friendly_iconoclast]

7. I've got friends in CHCH. I hope they're okay

B. was just getting his store back in action after being closed for months.

They don't need this at all.....

[Violet_Crumble]

10. They're not needed, but these aftershocks were forecasted....

I know that doesn't mean much to people who have been traumatised by the major earthquake, and I for one couldn't imagine living through aftershocks, but people were warned that these were due to happen in the Canterbury region...

I really hope yr friends are up and running again sooner rather than later. Christchurch is my favourite part of New Zealand, maybe coz that area's one of the flattest there in a country that's like a minuature Swiss Alps...

[friendly_iconoclast]

15. UPDATE: My friends are okay, their power was out for a few hours.

At least K. wasn't nearly brained by a flying microwave oven and covered in grease like she was in February!

[Warpy]

13. On another board, the worst so far

was someone who thought it was a patch of dust in the driveway and found out it was a big liquefied hole. Dishes are smashed and furniture has walked around the room and there have been banged elbows and knees and shattered nerves but no heavy damage. Some buildings that were already wrecked to the point of being unoccupied fell completely.

But people are OK.

[defendandprotect]

8. Death is the price for capitalism's exploitation of nature --

we will all be "Katrina'd" --

[SpartanDem]

9. Let's not go all Pat Robertson

earthquakes happen neither god or nature nature are sending us a "message".

[defendandprotect]

12. Unfortuntely, Global Warming is causing more earthquakes ...

which in turn generate more volcanic activity.

Not only are the number of earthquakes increase but the severity.


Most people aren't aware that there was a 50 year delay in Global Warming --

we were heating up, our temps were increasing but not as severely as we see

happening now. It also provided the opportunity for oil industry/ExxonMobil

and a few other large companies like BP and others to confuse and deceive the

public with their lies about Global Warming.

The effects we are feeling at this point ONLY reflect human activity up to

about 1960.


There was an effort to shut down the nuclear reactors at Fukushima based on the

age of the reactors and increasing seismic activty being noted by Japanese

scientists. Evidently, after some political intervention by the US on behalf

of the nuke industry, the Mayor was gone and so was the effort to shut them down.

But how much better off they would have been had that happened --


It takes about 6 months to properly shut down a nuclear reactor --

Some of the new designs can take as much as a year --

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

17. earthquakes aren't increasing

they're occurring at the same rate as they always did. they're just covered more by the 24/7 worldwide media, and due to population expansion, there are fewer remote, uninhabited areas left in the world today. So every quake gets noticed.

[defendandprotect]

18. Disagree -- and certainly the severity is increasing --

In fact, that's why the Mayor Fukushima and the Japanese scientists were concerned

about Fukushima -- because of the increasing seismic activity.

This last earthquake was 9 or 9.1 -- with more than 350 aftershocks at very high

numbers --

[cleanhippie]

20. (0)

:eyes:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-lJZiqZaGA

[friendly_iconoclast]

16. Meh. At least the people that blame HAARP for earthquakes post pictures of auroras

[MineralMan]

11. Tick-Tock? What's that supposed to mean.

Earthquakes are natural phenomena. They're happening all over the planet on a regular basis. What are you trying to say, there?

[robdogbucky]

14. Watch your weiner

Don't you know this is just Extreme Enviroweenie Biased Claptrap?



Tick tock

[Kingofalldems]

19. K and R