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Post by richardw on Nov 24, 2016 0:09:51 GMT -5
reed you are right, we are a well prepared with most modern building being reinforced while homes made from timber or a growing number steel framed. Also a growing number of historic building have or currently being earthquake strengthened.
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Post by richardw on Nov 23, 2016 18:07:15 GMT -5
www.bigsurcalifornia.orgThat is quite a similar coast line the "safer" area is highly mountainous wilderness; is that perhaps the problem in NZ? One of the other problems with going inland is dealing with higher areas prone to snow
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Post by richardw on Nov 23, 2016 12:48:00 GMT -5
Only very small areas of NZ's South Island have what you would call old granite or volcanic type rock, everything else is mostly 2nd or 3 third sedimentary, so its rather soft and prone slides. steev can ya post a link that shows Cali, Big Sur,i;m interested to see it. They are looking at the option of re-routing that coastal state highway, but there's not a lot of alternative routes to chose from. Myself i can see engineers recommending using the advanced tunneling technology that available today, this and along with now having receded water line thanks to uplift a new road could be built further out from the cliffs, after all they've now got plenty of rock material to work with. Couple of interesting photos doing the rounds
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Post by richardw on Nov 22, 2016 22:51:14 GMT -5
I'm amazed how clean cut the face is, like its been cut with a knife
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Post by richardw on Nov 22, 2016 16:42:31 GMT -5
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Post by richardw on Nov 22, 2016 13:19:29 GMT -5
Boy you have some great looking soil there Zack, and by the looks of it potential pottery clay underneath.
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Post by richardw on Nov 22, 2016 12:58:36 GMT -5
It started off a strange onion and now its reverted back to producing flowers. All 6 onion that i planted out after winter storage have developed incidental stems
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Post by richardw on Nov 20, 2016 12:39:51 GMT -5
Been late coming but first of the summer warmth due this week.
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Post by richardw on Nov 20, 2016 12:10:56 GMT -5
What beautiful country. That road would have been absolutely terrifying to try to drive in the dark after the quake, and indeed shows why it would be safer to stop and get out. There's really no way to know where to be safe, is there, worse than a hurricane or even a tornado which usually have more or less a pattern. I kept wondering how he got past some of those breaks, like that one place it looked as though the road completely blocked by rubble and another where it had sheared and the far side looked about 1/2 a metre or more higher than the near side. Thanks for posting that, it was interesting to see just how widespread the damage was, it's not really concentrated in a small area at all. So lucky you escaped that. And to think that that is just on one side leading up to the worse effected part of the road, see link. Now to all truck freight has to take a longer alpine journey of about an extra two hours which in turn will push up retail prices.
www.stuff.co.nz/national/86447423/utter-devastation-earthquake-damage-to-kaikoura-worse-that-first-thought
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Post by richardw on Nov 17, 2016 12:59:59 GMT -5
I would note that for some of us, losing weight in age is just how it works; I'm becoming a skinny old coot, Well i seem to be leaving that rather late, in the mean time happy to remain just a 'chubby old coot'
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Post by richardw on Nov 16, 2016 23:21:58 GMT -5
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Post by richardw on Nov 16, 2016 12:06:42 GMT -5
Earthquakes are a real adrenaline rush, from fast asleep to standing at the end of the bed within a couple of seconds thinking, 'fuck this is a big one', with ya heart fair going to town.
Heard a few stories from people driving when it hit. A mail delivery truckie reckons the waves coming towards him were like those out at sea, he knew straight away what was coming. Others say its like getting a 'blow out' at the speed limit.
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Post by richardw on Nov 16, 2016 1:36:02 GMT -5
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Post by richardw on Nov 15, 2016 13:46:35 GMT -5
Where the cattle had been trapped was a hillside that slid, for poor cow and her calf, like steev and his sweetheart a case of 'Rock and roll, Baby!'
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Post by richardw on Nov 15, 2016 13:32:42 GMT -5
All my ex left me with was a set of stainless bowls and a dog that hated her, gees dog are smart aren't they.
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