| * ajmitch wonders how much of christchurch got flattened in that one | 00:01 | |
| hads | Yeah, felt that well here. | 00:03 |
|---|---|---|
| ajmitch | felt it in dunedin, so it was fairly strong | 00:04 |
| Atamira | they had another quake? | 00:05 |
| Atamira | and afternoon | 00:05 |
| ojwb | http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/drums/ | 00:05 |
| ojwb | big smear at the RHS! | 00:05 |
| Atamira | dammit | 00:07 |
| Atamira | day after i leave chch too | 00:07 |
| hads | Sounds pretty big | 00:07 |
| hads | 6.3 just appeared on geonet | 00:07 |
| hads | 10km SE of CHC | 00:08 |
| ojwb | they often adjust the magnitude a bit from the initial though | 00:08 |
| Atamira | my friend in chc says hes used to them now | 00:08 |
| Atamira | doesnt even notice if theres a quake | 00:08 |
| Atamira | none of them i met the weekend did | 00:08 |
| ajmitch | I think they would have noticed this one | 00:08 |
| Atamira | ill ask them later | 00:09 |
| Atamira | oh scratch that | 00:09 |
| Atamira | ill txt him | 00:09 |
| hads | There's phone/elec/water broken in places. | 00:09 |
| ojwb | hmm, it's quite shallow too | 00:10 |
| ajmitch | not bad enough to cut internet connectivity through to the south | 00:11 |
| hads | Yeah, some CHC people in other channel have gone away but I presume that's localised. | 00:16 |
| ojwb | hmm, it seems to be practically on a highway through a tunnel | 00:22 |
| ojwb | SH74 | 00:22 |
| ajmitch | the lyttleton tunnel? that could be messy | 00:23 |
| ojwb | yes, that's probably the one | 00:23 |
| ojwb | http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=http:%2F%2Fmagma.geonet.org.nz%2Fservices%2Fquake%2Fkml%2F2.2%2Fsearch%3FexternalRef%3D3468575&ie=UTF8&ll=-43.596725,172.714477&spn=0.00965,0.016673&t=h&z=16 | 00:23 |
| hads | That tunnel is pretty sturdy. | 00:27 |
| ojwb | well, that's good | 00:27 |
| ojwb | i was thinking they wouldn't have really factored big earthquakes into the design in that area | 00:27 |
| hads | I had a tour through that tunnel a few years back, was very interesting. | 00:29 |
| ojwb | seems stuff.co.nz and nzherald.co.nz aren't happy | 00:29 |
| ojwb | i wonder if that's load from everyone going to read them | 00:29 |
| ajmitch | probably a few too many people visiting those sites | 00:29 |
| ajmitch | geonet probably got another big load spike, too | 00:30 |
| ojwb | seems more likely than having colocated in chch | 00:30 |
| ojwb | yeah, but they're built for that | 00:30 |
| ajmitch | pretty sure stuff.co.nz is in wellington | 00:30 |
| hads | TV3 news has interesting footage at the moment | 00:30 |
| chilts | yep, in Welly, and Auckland too | 00:31 |
| * chilts used to work on Stuff | 00:31 | |
| hads | Catalyst isn't it? | 00:31 |
| chilts | yep | 00:32 |
| ojwb | http://static2.stuff.co.nz/1298336332/489/4688489.jpg | 01:00 |
| ojwb | cathedral spire is toast | 01:00 |
| ajmitch | the building isn't quite as destroyed as twitter rumours say | 01:02 |
| ibeardslee | it'll be a mission to get it back as it was | 01:02 |
| ajmitch | yeah | 01:05 |
| ojwb | john key is going to try to fly down to see what it is like on the ground | 01:06 |
| ojwb | I can save him the flight - it's covered in rubble | 01:07 |
| ajmitch | but he has to be there to show his solidarity with the people, it's election year after all | 01:07 |
| ibeardslee | kewl .. pity the RSA had already had rocks land on it .. could have tried to co-ordinate that a bit better | 01:07 |
| ojwb | hmm, stuff could do with some copy editing | 01:08 |
| ojwb | repeated text and "The earthquake happened at a shallow depth of five to six metres below ground." | 01:08 |
| ibeardslee | yeah | 01:08 |
| ibeardslee | Police are saying multiple fatalities have been reported at several locations in the central city | 01:10 |
| ojwb | having watched the tv footage, I'd be amazed if nobody had been killed this time | 01:11 |
| ibeardslee | http://www.police.govt.nz/news/release/27193.html | 01:11 |
| ojwb | though one guy was talking about having helped some people out and failed to help a guy buried up to his waist in rubble, then they panned the camera and the building was just a heap of debris | 01:12 |
| ojwb | so it's amazing what you can get out of uninjured | 01:12 |
| ojwb | hmm, the police say that chch hospital is not evacuated | 01:16 |
| ojwb | the news repeatedly said it had been | 01:16 |
| ojwb | not totally helpful | 01:17 |
| Atamira | i dont know whethere to be happy or sad | 01:47 |
| Atamira | that happened 1 1/2hrs after i left chch | 01:47 |
| ibeardslee | that was lucky | 01:49 |
| ibeardslee | our people down there are ok | 01:49 |
| ojwb | Atamira: I'd go for happy | 01:49 |
| Atamira | true | 01:50 |
| Atamira | ive never been in an earthquake | 01:50 |
| ajmitch | Atamira: well you wouldn't have been leaving any time soon | 01:50 |
| ojwb | if you get the choice, happy is better | 01:50 |
| Atamira | but it would have been a valid excuse to not have to go to work | 01:51 |
| ajmitch | imagine if you'd been stuck in the city for a few days because of it? | 01:51 |
| ajmitch | & there goes another one that we could feel in dunedin.... | 01:52 |
| wgrant | That's not good. | 01:53 |
| chilts | ajmitch: you just felt another just then? | 01:53 |
| chilts | :( | 01:53 |
| ibeardslee | All NZ airspace shut down - central air traffic control in Christchurch hit by massive earthquake | 01:53 |
| ibeardslee | not much flying going on | 01:53 |
| ajmitch | chilts: yep | 01:53 |
| chilts | geonet: 6.3, 4.5, 4.4, 4.0 ... and still your one to come | 01:54 |
| Atamira | my friend lives close to the centre of the city | 01:56 |
| Atamira | but not in the city | 01:56 |
| Atamira | so i wouldntve been near it | 01:56 |
| Atamira | i was in the square last thurs tho. | 01:57 |
| Atamira | shame about the cathedral | 01:57 |
| Atamira | if they dont fix any of the other old buildings | 01:57 |
| Atamira | i hope they fix that one | 01:57 |
| Atamira | its an icon to the city | 01:57 |
| ojwb | my geophysicist gf is wondering if there could be an aftershock off shore | 01:59 |
| ojwb | some of them are pretty close to the sea | 01:59 |
| chilts | anyone know where http://ubuntu-nz.org and can anyone get it? | 02:01 |
| chilts | I know this isn't important at the moment, but am just wondering | 02:01 |
| ajmitch | chilts: it just points to the wiki | 02:01 |
| ajmitch | or at least it should | 02:02 |
| chilts | ok | 02:02 |
| chilts | I never saw it in the title until just now :) | 02:02 |
| ibeardslee | someone was talking about following that up .. who was that? | 02:02 |
| ajmitch | uh, I think I said that we should, but it was never clear who'd do it :) | 02:02 |
| ibeardslee | ahhh | 02:04 |
| ojwb | seems to be owned by canonical | 02:04 |
| ojwb | the domain I mean | 02:05 |
| ajmitch | yeah, I can probably find the right people to talk to about it | 02:07 |
| chilts | ajmitch: that one you felt at 2:50 was a 5.5 and another shallow one (5km), centered on Lyttleton again | 02:07 |
| chilts | Lyttelton | 02:07 |
| ojwb | the one ajmitch felt just now was 5.5 | 02:07 |
| ojwb | snap! | 02:07 |
| chilts | :) | 02:07 |
| chilts | the GeoNet recent quakes page is mostly Chch | 02:08 |
| ajmitch | so all these are just a practice run for a big one in wellignton :) | 02:08 |
| chilts | it's on the BBC now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12533291 | 02:08 |
| ojwb | hmm, that one was in a harbour | 02:09 |
| ajmitch | ojwb: is that significant? | 02:10 |
| ojwb | well, being offshore makes a tsunami more likely | 02:10 |
| ojwb | which wouldn't be good | 02:10 |
| ojwb | then they'd just need the banks peninsula to become an active volcano... | 02:14 |
| ojwb | http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/earthquake-send-kiwi-dollar-plunging-db-86655 | 02:20 |
| ojwb | apparently 0.88 cents is a plunge | 02:20 |
| mcgillicutty | earthquake?? | 02:23 |
| ibeardslee | in Christchurch | 02:24 |
| ajmitch | yeah, a little bit of a shake | 02:24 |
| mcgillicutty | just saw it on the news. Earthquakes seem to be becoming more and more common | 02:24 |
| Hoggs | This one seems to have done far more damage than the last | 02:25 |
| ibeardslee | yes .. deaths have been reported | 02:26 |
| ibeardslee | more buildings collapsed | 02:26 |
| Hoggs | Right at lunch time.. worst time it could have happened | 02:27 |
| snail | did a recent update break cups for anyone else? | 02:38 |
| hads | snail: Yes | 02:38 |
| hads | cups backend failed or somesuch | 02:38 |
| snail | did a restart ressurect things, or was more poking needed? | 02:38 |
| hads | Nope, still broken | 02:39 |
| hads | /usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed | 02:39 |
| ojwb | the canterbury ring laser is down - we're open to alien attack! http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/drums/ | 04:18 |
| hads | heh | 04:32 |
| ojwb | hmm, I hope the weather is better in Christchurch than Wellington | 05:41 |
| lifeless | raining | 05:42 |
| ojwb | that's not going to make life much fun for anyone having to camp out the night | 05:43 |
| lifeless | indeed | 05:45 |
| karora | lifeless: Are you in Chch? | 08:36 |
| lifeless | rangiora | 08:37 |
| karora | Ah, OK. | 08:37 |
| karora | Any DDs in Chch itself? | 08:37 |
| * karora has been fielding the traditional "Are you OK?" e-mails from folk in Europe & the US... | 08:38 | |
| lifeless | dunno | 09:35 |
| === timClicks is now known as timClicks_away | ||
| ajmitch | morning | 18:55 |
| Bacta | Sup | 19:04 |
| Atamira | mornin | 19:05 |
| Bacta | Hi Atamira, how's things? | 19:05 |
| Atamira | good thanks | 19:06 |
| Bacta | Have any family in Christchurch? | 19:06 |
| Atamira | and you? | 19:06 |
| Bacta | I'm okayish | 19:07 |
| Atamira | yes, and family is fine | 19:07 |
| Atamira | so are friends | 19:07 |
| Bacta | That's good | 19:07 |
| Bacta | Mine are too apparently, was a bitch getting in contact with them though | 19:07 |
| Bacta | Was worried about one family member because she was working in a building that was red stickered after the Sept earthquake | 19:07 |
| Atamira | yeah. we've been watching the news all night | 19:10 |
| Atamira | its affecting work as well | 19:10 |
| Atamira | communications in chch is restricted use. | 19:10 |
| Bacta | You live there? | 19:11 |
| Atamira | no, but i was on holiday there over the weekend for 5 days | 19:15 |
| Atamira | flew back to akld monday | 19:15 |
| Bacta | I was there on Saturday and Sunday | 19:15 |
| Atamira | i was there from thurs to monday | 19:15 |
| Atamira | my friends down there are ok | 19:15 |
| Atamira | as are my family | 19:15 |
| Bacta | Wow, dodged a bullet | 19:15 |
| Atamira | it wouldnt have been that bad for me | 19:15 |
| Bacta | I'm sorry but why the hell are tomaw, ikonia and elky in here? They're not Kiwis | 19:15 |
| Atamira | i wasnt in the town centre. already did that friday | 19:16 |
| Bacta | Ah yep? | 19:16 |
| ikonia | my sinceer best wishesto you all in .nz, be very careful out there | 19:16 |
| Bacta | *sincere *wishes to | 19:17 |
| Bacta | You're supposed to be English | 19:17 |
| ikonia | yes, | 19:17 |
| Atamira | ty ikonia | 19:17 |
| ikonia | Bacta "too" not to | 19:17 |
| * Bacta headdesk | 19:18 | |
| ikonia | Bacta: so don't get smart with me | 19:18 |
| Bacta | I hope you're joking | 19:18 |
| ikonia | no | 19:18 |
| ajmitch | people, please just shut up & behave, we don't need the aggro here | 19:19 |
| ikonia | how bad is the damage at the moment ? | 19:19 |
| Atamira | pretty bad | 19:19 |
| ajmitch | bad enough, judging from the photos I've seen | 19:19 |
| Atamira | communications is down, power is out. water has to be boiled | 19:19 |
| ikonia | the news in Europe is a bit bland due to the A/P political news being headlines | 19:19 |
| ikonia | Atamira: ok, so pretty much the back to raw basics | 19:20 |
| Bacta | Look for a NZ source perhaps? | 19:20 |
| ikonia | Bacta: europe isn't keen on broadcasting NZ sources, it tends to pickup the mail networks and just highlight coverage from NZ rather than play it properly | 19:20 |
| Bacta | The mayor is on TV again | 19:20 |
| ikonia | the riots in the middle east are taking headlines away from this | 19:20 |
| Atamira | ikonia, yeah. | 19:20 |
| ikonia | Atamira: what's the aid situation like, it looks a little lacking from here | 19:21 |
| Atamira | so far, no idea | 19:23 |
| Atamira | right now they are just concentrating on getting ppl out of collapsed buildings | 19:23 |
| Atamira | the army went in last night to help as well | 19:23 |
| ikonia | is there any official news death toll at the moment, the european numbers seem a little scaled back | 19:23 |
| Atamira | officially, we have confirmed 35 deaths. | 19:24 |
| Atamira | but the full tally is still in the estimates | 19:24 |
| ajmitch | unofficially, it's looking a lot higher than that | 19:24 |
| ikonia | that's actually better than we are getting reported | 19:24 |
| ajmitch | 2-300? | 19:24 |
| Atamira | true | 19:25 |
| Atamira | cause so many are unaccountable | 19:25 |
| Atamira | we can only hope for the best | 19:25 |
| ikonia | Atamira: 200 is the european current predication | 19:25 |
| ikonia | to be honest if it's only 200 I think you will have done "well" due to the size of the devistation, not that it is acceptable to lose any life | 19:26 |
| ikonia | it just looks like there should be more | 19:26 |
| ajmitch | looks like my ISP's network is congested again | 19:27 |
| Atamira | so far, we've been told its 65 | 19:27 |
| Atamira | but that was again an estimate | 19:27 |
| ikonia | keep yourselves safe, | 19:27 |
| ajmitch | it could well be over 200 though, hard to know for a few days, I suspect | 19:27 |
| Atamira | yeah | 19:27 |
| Atamira | they are telling ppl to stay home | 19:27 |
| Atamira | i wonder if my friends will go to work | 19:28 |
| Atamira | they moved buildings cause the other one was unsafe | 19:28 |
| Atamira | and this new building was single story | 19:28 |
| ikonia | I bet a lot of people will want to work in single story buildings after this | 19:31 |
| hads | Huh? Where did that agro come from? Everyone is welcome here. | 19:31 |
| hads | Morning all | 19:31 |
| ajmitch | hads: he has a history with certain people :) | 19:31 |
| hads | Oh, maybe everyone isn't welcome then :) | 19:31 |
| ajmitch | everyone's welcome if they can behave | 19:32 |
| ikonia | common sense | 19:33 |
| * ajmitch heard from a friend via facebook, he got to spend about 7 hours helping get people out of a building yesterday | 19:34 | |
| ikonia | that's the hope that the guys who can help each other | 19:34 |
| ikonia | is there solid medical support at the moment ? | 19:37 |
| ajmitch | from what I know, there is, hospitals around the country have been cleared out to take in people from christchurch | 19:38 |
| ibeardslee | morning | 19:39 |
| hads | Yeah as far as anyone knows from outside Christchurch search and rescue + medical is going fine. | 19:40 |
| Atamira | latest news said that alot of the ops for this week have been postponed and chch ops are being sent up here for them | 19:42 |
| hads | Hospital was cleaned out of non-acute people yesterday afternoon | 19:43 |
| Atamira | armourguard have sent ppl down there | 19:46 |
| Atamira | and one of my work collegues, her flatmate was sent down for work and rescue stuff with dogs | 19:46 |
| mwhudson | good morning | 20:24 |
| snail | this earthquake stuff; it's happened before: http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/Cyc03Cycl-fig-Cyc03Cycl0555b.html http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/Gov06_01Rail-fig-Gov06_01Rail024a.html http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-NHSJ06_03-t1-body1-d1-d5.html | 21:19 |
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