Comments | taralynden: Dark day

taralynden

Dark day

Feb 22, 2011 20:18

Last year Haiti suffered a 7.1 magnitude earthquake, and was devastated. Maybe it's not the case where you are, but here we haven't heard much about aftershocks since then ( Read more... )

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femme4jack February 22 2011, 07:30:22 UTC

Was just thinking of you and sent you a PM. There were tons of aftershocks in Haiti, but maybe we heard more about it here since we are close neighbors. It sounds horrible in Christchurch. Sending prayers and good energy that way. *hugs*

taralynden February 22 2011, 07:34:50 UTC

Thanks. I'm fine, not in Christchurch, but it's not good.

I was looking for the timelapse map when I was typing the above post, finally found it. Makes for grim viewing: http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/

Four thousand eight hundred and sixty aftershocks, and counting. Including today's disaster.

Just awful.

femme4jack February 22 2011, 07:38:30 UTC

Aftershocks are a horrible feeling, especially knowing they can be worse than the original. I was in a fairly significant quake while traveling in Guatemala a few years ago, made worse by the fact that so few buildings were up to code. Feeling like the earth is no longer solid and trustworthy is horrible.

It is headline news here, at least on the National Public Radio website. Keep us posted, because sadly it will fade form the news more quickly than it should.

taralynden February 22 2011, 07:43:06 UTC

That's one thing we've got as an advantage - NZ's a fairly young country, most of our buildings are pretty well built. And a lot of houses are wooden, so they flex rather than shatter like brick or concrete.

I'll keep in touch. It's going to take a long time before we've got much certainty of what's going on down there.

from Christina anonymous February 22 2011, 11:20:53 UTC

I'm glad you weren't in the area where it happened, and my thoughts are with the people affected. It's headline news here.

We heard about Haiti's aftershocks for a long time on the news. My area of the US(the Midwest) has really only had a couple of earthquakes; we mostly get to deal with snowstorms.

Re: from Christina taralynden February 22 2011, 16:41:40 UTC

I grew up in an area where earthquakes weren't very likely at all - we were more worried about tsunamis and volcanic eruptions. Where I live now, earthquakes are the first thing on everyone's mind: the city's right on a fault line, everyone's really aware and talks about them quite a lot. One of the first things I was told to do, when I started this job, was to put together a jumper, some non-perishable food and some walking shoes and keep them at my desk. I've felt a couple of small shakes since I've been here, but nothing big and I pray it stays that way ( ... )