Kamikuza - 3-9-2010 at 03:57 PM
My home town in NZ got nailed by a 7.4 mag earthquake ... wife is trying to contact our family there to make sure they're ok - which they are but lots
of busted stuff. Father-in-law said that every single glass or cup they own is broken!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&obj...
Funny, every NZer knows we lie on a fault line but we don't really get that many quakes ... I remember perhaps 4 rumbles and shakes that wouldn't
upset your Weetbix.
Unlike here in Japan - many times more!
thanson2001ok - 3-9-2010 at 04:07 PM
Whoa. That would get my heart goin'. Glad everyone is OK.
BTW, I visited both islands in NZ. AMAZING place.
indigo_wolf - 3-9-2010 at 04:11 PM
Hurricanes over here.... earthquakes over there.... just not a good day to be a rabbit.
Glad everything is ok with you & yours.
ATB,
Sam
Todd - 3-9-2010 at 05:39 PM
Glad to hear their OK Kami.
Drewculous - 3-9-2010 at 05:44 PM
that's nuts man! Good luck to ya and your family!
acampbell - 4-9-2010 at 04:29 AM
News reports just now out of Christchurch are not one death and just a few injuries, but lots of damage.
nocando - 4-9-2010 at 05:07 AM
Hey Kami read news Christchurch in lock down, Evacs going on.
My thoughts with you as my eldest son is somewhere in the vicinity on a cycling hiliday
Kamikuza - 4-9-2010 at 07:15 AM
Sorry, PC went tits up in sympathy then the wind was cracking so I went to the lack for an epic session :D
Biggest quake since 1931! That particular quake killed a bunch of people ... was the worst natural disaster in NZ. Since then though the power that be
put the hard word down on building standards and I've heard it said that NZ's are the best in the world ... but that was probably bias :D Still, a
very similar magnitude here in Japan in the 90's took a massive toll ... and building standards are third world here 
Yeah, a couple (literally) of serious injuries, no deaths but a lot of property damage ... I think if it was business hours we wouldn't seen a higher
human cost.