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spud 
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 Posted: 11:20PM Jul 2, 2011 |
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Hello everyone, what exciting/ interesting thing has occured in your country/town/city recently.
In the city I am living in, Christchurch New Zealand, we have the Feb 22nd 6.3 earthquake, which I will post more about.
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spud
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Posted: 01:36AM Jul 9, 2011 |
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Hello is anyone going to post in this or is there not even a point of starting this up????
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caberet 
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Posted: 03:27PM Aug 14, 2011 |
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We're waiting for you to tell us about the earthquake clean-up progress.
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Posted: 10:22PM Aug 14, 2011 |
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I think the punctuation in the title is atrocious enough to fend off even the most seasoned of Internet-goers. But that's just my opinion, of course.
"Time's rushing by me like the wind / Gotta grab each moment that I can / 'Cause I'm never gonna feel like this again" |
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spud
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Posted: 10:25PM Aug 16, 2011 |
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All right, the clean up process is going very slowly as we have had two if not more dumpings of thick snow in the last month.
But other than that the contractors are working very well, as the have already made up a draft plan of what the new city will look like!!!
They are thinking about having a mono rail going from the university into the square(cathedral square).
If you guys haven't heard this, Christchurch had another 6.3 after a 5.7 on the 13th of June, which brought the entrance of the Cathedral down, including the stained rose glass window, so the Cathedral is most likely to be bulldozed now.
Anymore questions feel free to ask!!! 
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bevy
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Posted: 10:30PM Jan 28, 2012 |
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these earthquakes are just going on and on and on arent they Spud  
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lostfan
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Posted: 11:55AM Jan 30, 2012 |
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can you watch them filming "The Hobbit"?
So after, when he whispers, "You love me. Real or not real?" I tell him, "Real". |
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shawneeo
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Posted: 06:41PM Jan 30, 2012 |
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That's really a shame about the cathedral having to be dozed. So what was your experience WHILE the quake/s were happening? I'm sure most of us have never been in one!
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JQPublic
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Posted: 08:04PM Jan 30, 2012 |
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shawneeo wrote: That's really a shame about the cathedral having to be dozed. So what was your experience WHILE the quake/s were happening? I'm sure most of us have never been in one!
Actually, all of us have been in one. Earthquakes which are 1 or 2 on the scale are extremely common and usually aren't felt.
'An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.' - Charles Dickens |
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shawneeo
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Posted: 08:24PM Feb 1, 2012 |
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 Oh, c'mon, you KNOW what I mean! What's it like to be in an earthquake you can feel, like a major earthquake!
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xxxamberxxx
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Posted: 03:28PM Feb 2, 2012 |
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I live in ohio so i have never realy felt an eathquake until recently. I felt the eathquake that was in washington dc i think. I was visiting my bf who is going to west virgina university and was in his appartment when the building started to shake. I was scared at first because I never experienced one before, but his roomate was from california and said that it was minor compared to there. I called my mom and told her i felt the earthquake and of course she didn't feel anything in ohio. I told her i was excited that I experienced my first eatrhquake and she said i was weird. I thought it was cool. Hopefully thats the worst one i experience though.
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Sneakattack
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Posted: 03:35PM Feb 2, 2012 |
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I was reading an article of the most major events of 2011. One of the events was the serious earthquake in Christchurch. I looked through my PMs and spud said she lives in Christchurch. I was like OMG  .
What are you looking at? |
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shawneeo
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Posted: 06:37PM Feb 8, 2012 |
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I've felt two, but they were both very minor and nothing like what the really big ones are like. I felt the recent DC one, which was just one of the strangest experiences ever! I was cleaning my windows with a friend, and she asked me if my putting the window down, which I was doing, was making the wall shake? I was like, huh? So, I pulled the window up and put it down again, but while doing that, I could feel the whole house wobbling back and forth and it felt like it could just fall down like a house of toy blocks.
The other one was when I lived in NYC, in the 1980s. It was about 2am, and I had woken up and was walking to the bathroom, when I felt the whole floor kind of shift under me! I stopped and thought, "That had to have been an earthquake...", then went to the bathroom and went back to bed. The next day I completely forgot about it until a friend asked me if I had felt the earthquake! 
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bevy
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Posted: 01:09AM Feb 10, 2012 |
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I haven't been feeling any recently
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Bubbles43
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Posted: 05:23PM Feb 10, 2012 |
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Same here
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snappytom
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Posted: 06:43PM Feb 21, 2012 |
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Thinking about all our New Zealand friends at the time of the first anniversary of the Christchurch earthquake.
In your reflection, may you find solace and peace to continue rebuilding your lives.
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RGW4
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Posted: 09:24PM Feb 21, 2012 |
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I live in So California and have for over 50 years now... we definately have earthquakes and have lived to talk about them.
Shawn you asked what it feels like... first there is that sudden fear of "What the" especially if it begins on a hard note. Some earthquakes "roll" in... and get bigger as they continue; some hit hard and fast, then go away. Some of those that hit hard also shake the house side to side, while others just feel like a roller coaster.
As a parent, after the initial scare you call out to your family to join you and get in a safe place - inside door jambs. If we can, I prefer to go outside... let the house fall down without me inside.
But if the house is shaking back and forth, it really can be hard to walk and better to seek protection.
There's an uneasiness about the walls and ceilings and is this the big one that is going to bring about total destruction of the house you live in.
During the 87' Whittier earthquake, we had plaster break open with 1/2" gaps and we almost lost our front porch as the limestone bricks crumbled under the shaking. If it hadn't been for a couple 2" galvanized pipes that had been installed by a previous owner to minimize the sag in the sagging main beam - I am sure one whole corner of our porch and roof would have come down. I think that one was measured as 5.9. The epicenter was some 15 miles from my home, but the fault line goes through my town within 1/4 mile.
The Northridge earthquake shook the house about the same, but damage was almost nil. It was more powerful, but the epicenter was 35 miles away and we were not close to the fault line. So location does matter in the case of all earthquakes.
I am not sure I have done your question justice... because unless you have lived through a major earthquake, it is sort of hard to explain. But I would rather live in earthquake country than hurricane or twister areas... at least we don't have to sit and watch the news to find out if we are going to be affected or not.
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shawneeo
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Posted: 07:56PM Feb 27, 2012 |
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Thanks RGW! Like you said, you kinda have to be there, but I appreciate you sharing your experiences! I hope I'm never in a big, or small, quake. I agree with you about the tornadoes and hurricanes; I would NOT want to live in any of those "zones".
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spud
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Posted: 03:17AM Apr 10, 2012 |
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Hey guys I agree with bevy and bubbles43 as I haven't really been feeling many either!!!!
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Bubbles43
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Posted: 03:12AM Apr 22, 2012 |
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about a week or 2 ago there was a 4.6 and I was at a holiday programe so we did an evacuation drill Just in case
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