Posts by Hebe
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I read sometime in the last year or so, somewhere, an expert of some some sort saying that even after the earthquakes stop it will take a couple of years for the ground to settle and the sinkholes and cracks to stop appearing and widening.
I notice around the river streets near my house in St Martins that the holes are filled and reappear, and are filled and reappear. The lateral spreading keeps spreading, sometimes the aftershocks make it worse, sometimes lots of rain make it worse. Always it keeps moving, little by little.
And there a few nasty road holes that I watch for: one beast just by the Opawa Road roundabout is an axle-breaker that can appear overnight; you cannot see it before you hit it and the road is hemmed in by an idiotic traffic island so you can't dodge it.
Rant over. Got some sleep last night :-)))
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to JacksonP,
I want a Lytro too. It's a game-changer if it really works.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
I reckon it's a day lily.
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The benefits of fracking
:http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/01/us/ohio-earthquake/index.html?npt=NP1State leaders have ordered that four fluid-injection wells in eastern Ohio will be "indefinitely" prohibited from opening in the aftermath of heightened seismic activity in the area, an official said.
Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director James Zehringer had announced on Friday that one such well -- which injects "fluid deep underground into porous rock formations, such as sandstone or limestone, or into or below the shallow soil layer," the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency explains -- was closed after a series of small earthquakes in and around Youngstown.
Then on Saturday, a magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck that released at least 40 times more energy than any of the previous 10 or more tremors that had rattled the region in 2011......
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Lilith __,
And Dn is full of unreinforced masonry buildings full of people.
Quite. I went down to Dunedin with the children for three weeks after a hideous September thumper. It took all that time to be able to sleep at night; and walking among the old unreinforced brick and stone buildings on hills scared the bejeesus out of me. And the Aorere fault points "like a dagger at the heart of the city."
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Christopher Dempsey,
This means various communities will be receiving distressed refugees, and those communities will need support so that they can adequately deal with the trauma that the refugees will be holding inside.
You are right; the after-effects are already a New Zealand problem not a Christchurch problem; and they will reverberate in our collective and individual psyches for decades, particularly among the young.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Lilith __,
Are you moving west?
BTW I have unearthed the Basilica pix, now to find the blank discs; I know they are somewhere....
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Lilith __,
The shakes migration is similar to when a vertebrae gives the blessed relief of "popping", then the next, and the next. The faults seem to have the same stress release
I am convinced that the #eqnz god is a prude: every time I or my beloved omit to wear a reasonably covering ensemble to bed the beast strikes. Last night I woke only to remember said clothing items, was reaching out to get one, and boom; 5.1. (I imagine no-one outside of Canterbury understands the variety of eqnz behavioural fetishes current among the populace. )
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
I should post a photo of an artichoke bud once it opens into a display of intensely blue stamens.
And after the blue...
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Russell Brown,
You took that on a phone? Bloody amazing.
Happy New Year to you all. I'm thinking about a friend's do in Heathcote; but today's "event" inclines me to an evening at home. I have a good book too...
