Capture: Two Tales of a City
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Gudrun Gisela, in reply to
If i had a soundtrack to this image it would be : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_%28Charles_Aznavour_song%29
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Hebe,
For all Wellington earthquake obsessives: Chris Crowe has put up a Wellington Quakelive site, just like the Christchurch one, so you can check all the details of each rumble: http://www.wellingtonquakelive.co.nz/
I was glued to our local Quakelive for 18 months or more, and it’s the first place I go when the earth moves. Chris Crowe has done more to help and reassure people in Christchurch than he will ever know.
It is always absurdly comforting to discover that the big rumble felt two minutes ago is actually from another fault line rather than one's own noisy neighbour and that the epicentre is five kms away rather than under the kitchen.
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
Thanks, Hebe. I think I'll glue myself to that link for a bit.
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Hebe, in reply to
Chris FWW: I can feel about a 2.5 and up if the epicentre is underneath the house. 3.2 or so is felt if it’s on the port hills fault 3 km from our place; a 4 up there is a strong bash-shunt-sway. Whereas a 4 on the Darfield fault 30 or 40 km away is a good wobble rather than a thump. And those are shallow – 5km deep usually or less.
So Wellington will be getting a lot of wobbling and swaying rather than the hammer blows. Which is disturbing but often not a big deal. Blenheim and Seddon will be getting thumped .
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They're all getting thumped by the cynical insurers. The 3 month limbo has been put in place on insurance = house sales.
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Gudrun Gisela, in reply to
Pleased you escape the tempestuous behavior of mother earth were you are. No matter eventually it all calms down. Ah the coast, so beautiful and remote.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
mantle peace... ?
Wellington Quakelive
Wow, Cook Strait is Grand Central Station for converging fault -lines!
Which side is going over which again?
Does the east coast subduct under the west coast
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Lilith __, in reply to
The one that has recently been in the news is a slidey-past one, or so I read.
Emma pointed me to this helpful comparison of the peak ground acceleration in the recent Cook Strait quake versus the February quake in Chch. You can see that the amount of ground shaking felt in Wellington was much less . It's not that buildings in Wellington are stronger.
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Hebe, in reply to
Does the east coast subduct under the west coast
or do they just move past each other?They dance don’t they? Joy Division's Transmission comes to mind
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I am actually working in Christchurch this week, and it was a wonderfully photogenic morning with a hint of fog around Hagley Park.
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Or this
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Hebe, in reply to
Or this.. magic pic.
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What a cracker of a day in Christchurch today. I was in Aidenfield, its one of those new areas where everything looks good, but isn't. Cracked concrete slabs, no reinforcing and wafer thin.
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Gudrun Gisela, in reply to
That will be the new Christchurch, all veneer and wafer thin.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
one of those new areas where everything looks good, but isn’t.
...here's another! More flawed Council approval processes...
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
…here’s another! More flawed Council approval processes…
Seems that the rot goes way back on that one. Out of all the councillors, only Glenn Livingstone has consistently pushed for the original consents to be revisited.
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Hebe,
A very good Part 3 of Puddleglum’s Christchurch blogs (apologies if it has already been posted)
http://www.thepoliticalscientist.org/?p=1392
This piece catalogues the awfulnesses in the central city, mostly via newspaper clips. It draws together the threads, though doesn’t provide much new. Much of the political analysis/ scuttlebutt in part 2 was not great, but part 3 is worth reading, particularly for people outside Christchurch. Good one Puddleglum
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Cheered me up no end today. Thanks, Porcupine Farmer.
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Hebe,
Artist Rudolf Boelee opens his latest exhibition in Christchurch tomorrow evening, the first stop in a New Zealand tour.
It's very good -- and (in a shameless act of self-promotion because I wrote the introduction for his ebook on the show) here's the link:
http://issuu.com/rudolfboelee/docs/a1_eastside_cover_merged__1_/1
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Rally in Christchurch against the erosion of our civil liberties.
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Fighting for justice.
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On Cathedral Square.
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Metadata Man.
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Human Rights under fire.
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Rob Stowell, in reply to
Artist Rudolf Boelee opens his latest exhibition in Christchurch tomorrow evening, the first stop in a New Zealand tour.
Thanks Hebe- lovely, the words and pictures. And the sense of connection- it feels like a web of art and art-filled lives holding the city together.
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