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Topic: NZ Earthquake
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Graham Ritchie
Film God
Posts: 4001
From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted April 18, 2011 10:05 PM
Thanks Osi
Well the bracket held the projector fine, however having breakfast the next day while sitting at the table I noticed the cracks on the walls are getting wider and longer, and after a look at the outside things are getting worse. The poor old place like so many has taken a hammering over the last 6 months. They reckon we have had almost 7000 aftershocks since the Sept 7:1, most you dont feel but plenty we do. The 6:3 Feb one was on different fault line, very close and shallow and created an underground trampoline effect on this part and the central of the city. They are checking for a third fault line at the moment they think is about a mile or so east from where we live and I have told my wife if that one lets go we have had it...as we are just to close.
Apart from the material damage the effect it has on people is very noticable, many are on edge as after a while you get conditioned that way as those constant aftershocks are unpredicable in there timing and intensity. I would like to think thats it, no more but as soon as you think that, thats when you get hit just like last Saturday evening. In the past if we get lots of small ones thats fine, but when things are quiet for a while, then thats the scary bit, because the pressure is building and when it does let go you really feel it.
Graham.
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