6.5 quake in wellington

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6.5 quake in wellington

Postby wayno » Sun 21 Jul, 2013 5:03 pm

widespread moderate building damage in the central city.
minor casualties reported so far
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8945358 ... ew-Zealand
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Re: 6.5 quake in wellington

Postby Strider » Sun 21 Jul, 2013 5:23 pm

C'mon Wayno living in NZ you should know the quakes were not in Wellington!
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Re: 6.5 quake in wellington

Postby wayno » Sun 21 Jul, 2013 5:26 pm

50k away in the strait, the damage is in wellington
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Re: 6.5 quake in wellington

Postby Strider » Sun 21 Jul, 2013 5:55 pm

Blenheim copped it much harder than Wellington.
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Re: 6.5 quake in wellington

Postby GPSGuided » Sun 21 Jul, 2013 6:08 pm

Hope all are safe. Was in Christchurch and experienced a 5.4 aftershock once. It was scary enough.
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Re: 6.5 quake in wellington

Postby wayno » Sun 21 Jul, 2013 6:14 pm

burst water pipes plus stock coming off shelves are the only reported damage in blenheim so far

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8945943 ... l-round-up
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Re: 6.5 quake in wellington

Postby wayno » Sun 21 Jul, 2013 6:27 pm

on twitter

Philippa Ormrod ?@pipormy 58m
Major damage at Seddon, the epicentre of the quake. Houses wrecked, power out. People gathering at community centre
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Re: 6.5 quake in wellington

Postby wayno » Mon 22 Jul, 2013 6:58 am

yanks reported it was centred in victoria and felt all over aus, everyone checked for damage?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... d=10901374
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Re: 6.5 quake in wellington

Postby matagi » Mon 22 Jul, 2013 7:57 am

wayno wrote:yanks reported it was centred in victoria and felt all over aus, everyone checked for damage?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... d=10901374

Damn! And I thought it was the loud party down the road that was responsible for the vibrations I was feeling. :shock:
Better duck down to the beach and see how much of the coast has fallen into the water.
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Re: 6.5 quake in wellington

Postby wayno » Mon 22 Jul, 2013 8:03 am

someone thought seddon in melbourne was the epicentre and it was felt in napier western aus
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Re: 6.5 quake in wellington

Postby matagi » Mon 22 Jul, 2013 8:31 am

Yes, I know. I read the article.
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Re: 6.5 quake in wellington

Postby Strider » Mon 22 Jul, 2013 9:31 am

That US article is written like a kids school project. How this guy passed Journalism at uni I have no idea.
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Re: 6.5 quake in wellington

Postby GPSGuided » Mon 22 Jul, 2013 10:13 am

We all know that a lot of Americans are very bad in geography, especially internationally. The more important problem here, how dare a journalist write an article write on something they should know they know little about? Do they not check? And how did he even think up all the geographical links? Was he fed bad info or did he just dream it all up? Just amazing!
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Re: 6.5 quake in wellington

Postby wayno » Mon 22 Jul, 2013 1:10 pm

google isnt the friend he thought it was.....
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Re: 6.5 quake in wellington

Postby GPSGuided » Mon 22 Jul, 2013 1:45 pm

wayno wrote:google isnt the friend he thought it was.....

Googling can be a challenge these days!
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Re: 6.5 quake in wellington

Postby Onestepmore » Mon 22 Jul, 2013 5:32 pm

Here's the corrected version, with the original included as well
if it wasn't serious, it'd be funny
http://guardianlv.com/2013/07/severe-ea ... australia/
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