Tectonic plate shifts can bite me
Sep. 5th, 2010 02:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meredith_shayneI have said before that I'm periodically disturbed by the fact that I live in a country that has such a high level of volcanic and earthquake activity. Unfortunate things tend to happen in New Zealand - whole cities get completely flattened by earthquakes, whole landscapes get destroyed by eruptions. This does not please me.
Yesterday morning at 4.30am there was a 7.1 magnitude earthquake just outside of Christchurch. Probably due to the time of the morning, no one was hurt (the Hawke's Bay earthquake which flattened Napier happened at 10.30am, and killed 256 people), which was excellent, but apparently it was pretty scary. The very definition of a rude awakening.
Some of the pictures are really incredible.We've got lots of damaged buildings, some incredibly disturbing cracks in the road and ground, and bridges twisted beyond repair.
Mother nature is really incredible, and we are insignificant in comparison.
Yesterday morning at 4.30am there was a 7.1 magnitude earthquake just outside of Christchurch. Probably due to the time of the morning, no one was hurt (the Hawke's Bay earthquake which flattened Napier happened at 10.30am, and killed 256 people), which was excellent, but apparently it was pretty scary. The very definition of a rude awakening.
Some of the pictures are really incredible.We've got lots of damaged buildings, some incredibly disturbing cracks in the road and ground, and bridges twisted beyond repair.
Mother nature is really incredible, and we are insignificant in comparison.
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