http://tinyurl.com/26djo4z

Link is from cnn.com

Hope everyone is okay down there!!

Please lock if this is a dup. I didn't see it posted.

Here In Christchurch things seems to be getting back on track, Eletric slowly coming back on. Water is off as of now, but hoping to back by tonight. The CBD is pretty bad, with the front of older buildings collapsed.

The quake it's self was extremly violent. Rating between 7.1-7.4 and only 10kms deep and lasting well over a minute long, it was a very strong quake.

The after shocks are coming think and fast, every 5mins or so, and still quite strong. Thank our lucky stars that we had no deaths.

[Edited 9/3/10 16:20pm]

far out!!!

We are still getting after shocks. There was alarge one 10 minutes ago.

Power is back on now, we have water for now but that may go out soon.

I have been in few earthquakes before, but that was by far the worst I have felt.

You can see photos HERE

Thanks to everyone who has orgnoted and facebooked. Appreciate your concern.

Someone has really pissed off mother nature

prb said:

Someone has really pissed off mother nature

mostbeautifulboy said:

prb said:

Someone has really pissed off mother nature

we have a severe weather warning for tomorrow, Gale force winds and tomorrrow night 150mm rain. Oh goodie

Her attempt at cleaning away the damage maybe?

Good to hear that Andykeen is fine.( I thought you were in England, so I was kind of surprised to see that you live in NZ).

Has anyone heard anything from orger Huggybear?

Hope he´s okay, too.

I heard about this from a friend in Christchurch. Sounds pretty bad. Hope everyone's hanging in there and that things will start returning to normal ASAP.

1.5 billion dollars worth of damage? did I hear that right on the news???

ZombieKitten said:

1.5 billion dollars worth of damage? did I hear that right on the news???

thats what i heard as well

i suppose when you take into account infrastructure as well as cars, buildings/belongings, stock etc...its gonna add up.

mother nature is really pissed, shes dumping the big island here as well, lots of flooding

KoolEaze said:

Has anyone heard anything from orger Huggybear?

Hope he´s okay, too.

I think he lives in Auckland, so hopefully he's OK.

ZombieKitten said:

1.5 billion dollars worth of damage? did I hear that right on the news???

I heard the same.

I know alot of bricklayers, builders and plumbers are getting very excited right now

Glad everyone is OK. Sounds like it was a pretty serious quake, actually. Lived through several large ones here in Cali - they're never fun.

mostbeautifulboy said:

We are still getting after shocks. There was alarge one 10 minutes ago.

Power is back on now, we have water for now but that may go out soon.

I have been in few earthquakes before, but that was by far the worst I have felt.

You can see photos HERE

Thanks to everyone who has orgnoted and facebooked. Appreciate your concern.

All of that damage and no one killed? That is amazing.

I noticed one fo the fallen books was titled, "God is Not Great."

noimageatall said:

mostbeautifulboy said:

We are still getting after shocks. There was alarge one 10 minutes ago.

Power is back on now, we have water for now but that may go out soon.

0I have been in few earthquakes before, but that was by far the worst I have felt.

You can see photos HERE

Thanks to everyone who has orgnoted and facebooked. Appreciate your concern.

All of that damage and no one killed? That is amazing.

I noticed one fo the fallen books was titled, "God is Not Great."

No one killed is amazing, yes.

Timing has alot to do with it, it struck at 4.30 am when most were asleep in bed. most the damage is in the central city and if the quake had of struck any other time the death toll would be thousands.

Things are much worse here than i first realised. the first day we didnt really see the damage except in our immediate neighbour hood. But today it has really hit home how bad it is.

90 buildings in the central city will be demolished, and 800 homes. The demolition has already begun.

We have had over 100 aftershocks, some quite sevre. We had a large shake just as I started writing this post which sent us undercover.

We have almost restored power to most of the city, but water is still an issue. We have water stored in buckets and containers. All water has to be boiled for 3 minutes before use.

The mayor and govt authorities are doing an amzing job. The people have been outstanding and very calm. We have a lot of education about earthquakes here, and everyone was well prepared.

I think in a few weeks when we walk around the city and see all those empty places where buildings used to stand will be very upsetting.

Sorry for grammer and spelling, quite upsetting to try and write about what it is like here.

yeah we get plenty of earthquakes here but this was certainly one out of the box

the damage is random too, one place is f***ed the nxt hardly a scratch

amazing no one killed, it really is

had it been at 4 in the afternoon....

I live at the beach here in Chch and there was the obligatory tsunami panic

thousands left over the one bridge out, which with daylight was immeaditly shut due to it's imminent collapse.

crikey.

mostbeautifulboy said:

noimageatall said:

All of that damage and no one killed? That is amazing.

I noticed one fo the fallen books was titled, "God is Not Great."

No one killed is amazing, yes.

Timing has alot to do with it, it struck at 4.30 am when most were asleep in bed. most the damage is in the central city and if the quake had of struck any other time the death toll would be thousands.

Things are much worse here than i first realised. the first day we didnt really see the damage except in our immediate neighbour hood. But today it has really hit home how bad it is.

90 buildings in the central city will be demolished, and 800 homes. The demolition has already begun.

We have had over 100 aftershocks, some quite sevre. We had a large shake just as I started writing this post which sent us undercover.

We have almost restored power to most of the city, but water is still an issue. We have water stored in buckets and containers. All water has to be boiled for 3 minutes before use.

The mayor and govt authorities are doing an amzing job. The people have been outstanding and very calm. We have a lot of education about earthquakes here, and everyone was well prepared.

I think in a few weeks when we walk around the city and see all those empty places where buildings used to stand will be very upsetting.

Sorry for grammer and spelling, quite upsetting to try and write about what it is like here.

I can only imagine on a small scale what it must be like. I remember going outside after Hurricane Hugo hit South Carolina and seeing all the buildings destroyed and 100 year old oak trees uprooted. Yachts and boats sitting in the top of trees. Only when you see it all afterwards do you realize how lucky you are and it hits you and overwhelms you. I'm so glad everyone survived and hope the aftershocks are over.

mostbeautifulboy said:

noimageatall said:

All of that damage and no one killed? That is amazing.

I noticed one fo the fallen books was titled, "God is Not Great."

No one killed is amazing, yes.

Timing has alot to do with it, it struck at 4.30 am when most were asleep in bed. most the damage is in the central city and if the quake had of struck any other time the death toll would be thousands.

Things are much worse here than i first realised. the first day we didnt really see the damage except in our immediate neighbour hood. But today it has really hit home how bad it is.

90 buildings in the central city will be demolished, and 800 homes. The demolition has already begun.

We have had over 100 aftershocks, some quite sevre. We had a large shake just as I started writing this post which sent us undercover.

We have almost restored power to most of the city, but water is still an issue. We have water stored in buckets and containers. All water has to be boiled for 3 minutes before use.

The mayor and govt authorities are doing an amzing job. The people have been outstanding and very calm. We have a lot of education about earthquakes here, and everyone was well prepared.

I think in a few weeks when we walk around the city and see all those empty places where buildings used to stand will be very upsetting.

Sorry for grammer and spelling, quite upsetting to try and write about what it is like here.

Hang in there! I'm so glad it wasn't as bad as it could have been.