Post by Cara on Feb 22, 2011 18:21:11 GMT
Hey everyone,
You may have heard it on the news, Christchurch (the main city centre I live near) was hit by a 6.3 earthquake yesterday (22nd February) at 12:51pm. The city centre looks like a nuclear bomb has gone off as the historic building's couldn't handle the shallow quake (it was only 5km deep) and they just crumbled. Unlike the one that happened almost 6 months ago (7.1 quake at 4:23am), there are heaps of fatalities. The Cathedral, that escaped any real damage during the 7.1, lost it's tower.
Obviously, I'm okay. I was at my mum's (she lives about 50km south of the city centre and the building we were in rocked and rocked. The children we look after were awesome and dived under the tables. The two boys who were asleep, remained asleep. Since the 12:51 quake, the city had been rocked by about 100s of other quakes. Mum lives in a pole house (we weren't in there) and she went up to check the house. There were dishes all over the floor, that had fallen from the bench, along with the eggs that had also been on the bench.
I live 30km south west of the city. I arrived home not too long ago. The place hasn't even been touched. I kind of envisioned broken plates all over the floors, the chimney down, stuff like that, but the house is fine. On a really good note, Nigel is on his way home.
You can read all the latest news about it at stuff.co.nz. I watch the news and all I want to do is cry. That's the city I grew up in, those were the streets I walked down to get to school.
You may have heard it on the news, Christchurch (the main city centre I live near) was hit by a 6.3 earthquake yesterday (22nd February) at 12:51pm. The city centre looks like a nuclear bomb has gone off as the historic building's couldn't handle the shallow quake (it was only 5km deep) and they just crumbled. Unlike the one that happened almost 6 months ago (7.1 quake at 4:23am), there are heaps of fatalities. The Cathedral, that escaped any real damage during the 7.1, lost it's tower.
Obviously, I'm okay. I was at my mum's (she lives about 50km south of the city centre and the building we were in rocked and rocked. The children we look after were awesome and dived under the tables. The two boys who were asleep, remained asleep. Since the 12:51 quake, the city had been rocked by about 100s of other quakes. Mum lives in a pole house (we weren't in there) and she went up to check the house. There were dishes all over the floor, that had fallen from the bench, along with the eggs that had also been on the bench.
I live 30km south west of the city. I arrived home not too long ago. The place hasn't even been touched. I kind of envisioned broken plates all over the floors, the chimney down, stuff like that, but the house is fine. On a really good note, Nigel is on his way home.
You can read all the latest news about it at stuff.co.nz. I watch the news and all I want to do is cry. That's the city I grew up in, those were the streets I walked down to get to school.