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by **maypaxvobiscum** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:28 am

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – A powerful earthquake struck one of New Zealand's biggest cities Tuesday at the height of a busy workday, toppling tall buildings and churches, crushing buses and killing at least 65 people in one of the country's worst natural disasters.

report here.

hoping all our posters based in NZ are safe and sound.

by **laza** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:58 am

All best to the Kiwi bro's across the Tasman

Hell of summer down under this year

by **metalhead** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 11:14 am

Do NZ usually get earthquakes?

I hope any NZ members on here are ok and safe

RIP to the 65

by **maypaxvobiscum** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 11:36 am

metalhead wrote:Do NZ usually get earthquakes?

I hope any NZ members on here are ok and safe

RIP to the 65

its "does" MH, not "do"

its the 2nd earthquake they had in recent times i believe.

by **Bad Bob** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 1:00 pm

Yep, the same city had a much stronger quake back in September but with zero fatalities...mostly because it happened at 4AM when almost everyone was in bed, by all accounts.

And, yes Metalhead, NZ is prone to earthquakes (and volcanoes) due to plate tectonics. It's an island arc lying at the boundary of the Pacific and Australian plates. The Pacific plate is subducting beneath of the Australian plate to the east of the North Island, while the boundary of the two plates forms a transform fault that bisects the South Island. Earthquakes, unfortunately, come with the territory at plate boundaries.

Here endeth today's geography lesson... :cool:

by **metalhead** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 2:38 pm

I know how earthquake happen thankyouverymuch I studied it in Grade 8

didn't know NZ was located between two plates..cheers

by **Emerald Red** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 5:18 pm

Isn't Big Mick in NZ?

by **woof woof !** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 5:38 pm

Bad Bob wrote:Yep, the same city had a much stronger quake back in September but with zero fatalities...mostly because it happened at 4AM when almost everyone was in bed, by all accounts.

And, yes Metalhead, NZ is prone to earthquakes (and volcanoes) due to plate tectonics. It's an island arc lying at the boundary of the Pacific and Australian plates. The Pacific plate is subducting beneath of the Australian plate to the east of the North Island, while the boundary of the two plates forms a transform fault that bisects the South Island. Earthquakes, unfortunately, come with the territory at plate boundaries.

Here endeth today's geography lesson...

I f'ucking love this forum, even when there's no footy. There's always random lessons on Geography, History, Politics and Sexual Misadventures to be learnt.

More seriously. Condolences to all Kiwi's touched by this tragic event.

by **lakes10** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 6:38 pm

my sister live in the noth island, my brother in law was due to be in christchurch today for work, he workes there one day a week but as luck would have it his meeting had been put back.

last week they were in Napier (in the south of the north island) and they had a very small earthquake then.

bit of a strange place new zeland, my sister lives in auckland, right in the view of a volcano and last year they were also put on a tsunami alert ..................such a safe place.

by **lakes10** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 6:40 pm

maypaxvobiscum wrote:
metalhead wrote:Do NZ usually get earthquakes?

I hope any NZ members on here are ok and safe

RIP to the 65

its "does" MH, not "do"

its the 2nd earthquake they had in recent times i believe.

theres been a lot over the last few years but nothing like the size of the last two, in the last 10 years most have happend at sea and the most they feel is a small ground shake and put on a tsunami alert.

the news out there is saying they fear that 270 may have lost their lives.

not sure what their media is like but right now 100 people are feared buried in collapsed buildings in the city.

by **metalhead** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 11:35 pm

Emerald Red wrote:Isn't Big Mick in NZ?

I think he is back in London, that is what he said before he was banned anyways

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