I heard about the quake just before we went to bed last night - glad to hear that Christchurch seems to have escaped serious damage. I wondered about Kaikoura - I remember it as a beautiful coastal town with majestic snow-capped mountains to the west. I hope damage there is minimal and that no lives have been lost.
Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ On Mon, Nov 14, 2016, at 08:07 AM, David Mann wrote: > Thanks for the thoughts, everyone. GNS revised their reading to 7.5 so > it was a pretty big one. I went back to bed around 3am and haven't > noticed anything since. It's nice when it's far enough away that you > don't get aftershocks waking you up every few minutes. > > Looks like there's a bit of destruction around the Kaikoura region. > Might be a while before the roads reopen up there as there are a couple > of broken bridges and impressive landslides. > > Tsunami-wise we may have dodged a bullet as the area off the Kaikoura > coast is known to be prone to underwater landslides. A small one was > generated and looking at a tide gauge it appears that the sea bed may > have been lifted by about 700mm (27.5") by the quake. > > Cheers, > Dave > > > On Nov 14, 2016, at 7:11 AM, Daniel J. Matyola <danmaty...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Glad to hear your are safe. > > Sounds like a real disaster. > > > > Dan Matyola > > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 7:45 AM, David Mann <dmann...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Just reporting in safe & well after another decent shake. It wasn't too > >> intense but seemed to go on for a long time. > >> > >> GNS have it at 6.6 but USGS say 7.4. It was a little way north from here > >> but was enough to wake up half the country. Our baby slept right through, > >> daddy will be awake for a while yet :) We're feeling the larger aftershocks > >> but they're pretty gentle by the time they reach us. I don't expect any > >> damage to our place. > >> > >> I really would prefer it if these damn things would happen during the day! > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Dave > >> -- -- -- -- http://www.fastmail.com - The way an email service should be -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
