Announcement: Major earthquake in New Zealand

John B. · Nov 13, 2016

Good morning fellow members.
We woke up this morning to the news of a major earthquake in New Zealand.
Andrew Biggs, one of our moderators and several other Cafe members are Kiwis.
Lets all say a prayer and/or keep a good thought for them. their family and property.

SalihKara · Nov 13, 2016

That is a very sad news, I hope everybody who live there are fine.

May God protect them

mitch · Nov 13, 2016

yikes. 7.8, that's a big one.

John B. · Nov 13, 2016

mitch said:
yikes. 7.8, that's a big one.

Yes Mitch, 7.8 is really bad.
And they are still recovering from the previous big one that killed hundreds and ripped Christchurch apart.

AliAtiyabi · Nov 13, 2016

It was bad news and my heartfelt wish of healthy for all of the people in New Zealand.

Omar Haltam · Nov 13, 2016

I hope Andrew and all our friends over their are safe and well

BrianPowley · Nov 13, 2016

Prayers for Andrew and Mary for sure.

Tim Young · Nov 13, 2016

They are in my prayers.

Andrew Biggs · Nov 13, 2016

Hi everyone

All is good thank you. It appears that in the light of day that there were two earthquakes back to back.

It stuck just after midnight north of Christchurch where we live in and the aftershocks are all rolling through as you would expect.

The tsunami alert has been downgraded although there are warnings still in place along the east coast.

In the light of day people are checking for damage and there are reports of major slips along the eastern roads .

It appears that smaller places have copped it the most in Kaikoura and Hamner Springs both an hour to two hour drive north from Christchurch. So far there have been reports of two lives lost.

Cheers
Andrew

Memorymaker · Nov 13, 2016

Glad to see you are alright

AliAtiyabi · Nov 13, 2016

Glad to hear from you Andrew.

John B. · Nov 13, 2016

Thanks for checking in Andrew.
Both here and privately.
My apologies to Andrew and all Cafe members if I started a near panic.
But as usual our dear media got it all wrong and reported major damage, 7.8 quake with major tsunamis expected.
And that is what I went on. As is it's bad enough without any exaggeration needed.

AliAtiyabi · Nov 13, 2016

John B. said:
Thanks for checking in Andrew.
Both here and privately.
My apologies to Andrew and all Cafe members if I started a near panic.
But as usual our dear media got it all wrong and reported major damage, 7.8 quake with major tsunamis expected.
And that is what I went on. As is it's bad enough without any exaggeration needed.

Not at all John, your announcement was great to inform us of our friends we should be aware of other members, I do appreciate your work, thanks.

Andrew Biggs · Nov 13, 2016

Hey John

No worries at all....it was big and it was long and it woke us up with a start. The news media have got it right. The trouble is that it was in the middle of the night here which compounds the problem. In the cold light of day things are not so bad. Thank goodness.

Fortunately a cup of tea and a couple of chocolate biscuits help

You guys in the USA get a whole lot worse with your fires, floods, tornadoes and hurricanes every year.

Mary and I really appreciate all the kind thoughts and emails. It's good to have such good friends

Cheers
Andrew

JJ Roberts · Nov 13, 2016

Andrew,Good to hear you and your family are safe. J.J.

monk · Nov 13, 2016

thankfull you and you family are ok. good news coming out of bad. i experienced a couple 3 pointers while in the miilitary. sort of wished i had a couple of diapers !

mvangle · Nov 13, 2016

Glad your Ok Andrew. Prayers for your country.

Dani Girl · Nov 14, 2016

Glad you're alright Andrew and that things aren't worse.

Marrinan · Nov 14, 2016

lucky it was a deep one, 23 miles the earthquake site reports. That damps things a bit now but damage to the sub-centennial structure is an issue for the future, I watch the earthquake lady. There were 16 around and under the South Island the 24 hours previous to this one. Lucky it was deep and all is relatively well. Fred

Bluetickhound · Nov 14, 2016

Glad all is as well as it can be. Like others said, with quakes, the deeper the better... Shallow quakes do way more damage.

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