Canterbury Earthquake - first flyover of fault trace
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@jarrethcutestory or on top of it hahah
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I've always thought how weird it would be to have a fault go through a familiar landscape, like your own property, and see a road or line of trees get shifted so dramatically, the way these views show.
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well guess what it buried people this time. In concrete buildings - duh. The building codes suck in NZ. build wooden /stucco structures as they do in California. But then why bother - I aint going back.
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Whoa .
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I live about 400 km from this and it was intense that far away. Imagine if you were standing right next to that
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Can't believe anpther earthquake has hit canterbury
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These fracture patterns remind me of our analogue experiments. I "video replied" an example.
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I guarantee your rates will go up...
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Holy jengas. I wonder why I didnt see this on the news... Most likely I just missed it,
When the quake hit, everybody was at home in bed. We New Zealanders live in American-style houses framed with 2x4s. That's the best sort of place to be in an earthquake. The wood flexes in a nice way. Even if the wood breaks, your house does not bury you with rubble. Most of the buildings that collapsed were heritage stuff built before WWI, when nobody had a clue about earthquakes, and empty in the wee hours.
alnot01 1 year ago 6
Those pictures will find their way in the Earthquake Geology textbooks!
Gruetze1 1 year ago