{"id":31426,"date":"2016-02-15T06:30:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T17:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=31426"},"modified":"2016-02-14T23:19:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T10:19:52","slug":"earthquakes-christchurch-style-reprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/02\/15\/earthquakes-christchurch-style-reprised\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquakes, Christchurch Style, Reprised"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The broken bridge<\/p><\/div>\n

Yep, this morning I want to reflect on yesterday’s “high 5” earthquake (plus aftershocks:\u00a0 shudders, nasty — or perhaps I mean, nasty shudders!)<\/p>\n

Five years ago, we experienced eighteen months of unmitigated awful with the Christchurch earthquakes (from September 2010 to December 2011).<\/p>\n

Since then, the earthquakes have never\u00a0 completely died away, but yesterday, for the first time since (I understand) 25 May, 2012, Christchurch experienced a major earthquake. I believe it has now\u00a0 officially been confirmed as 5.7 on the Richter scale — and was followed by a large number (over 40 at last count) of aftershocks, the highest registering at 4.2 (Richter scale.)<\/p>\n

The event (or swarm of events) was definitely “interesting”. And a large number of people reported what I also felt, which was shock and frayed nerves — a sign, probably, that we are none of us as recovered from the events of 2010 – 2011 as we might have wanted to believe.<\/p>\n

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Still not fixed, 5 years on…<\/p><\/div>\n

From a personal perspective, it was also “interesting” to be experiencing yet another large earthquake (& aftershock swarm) in a house that—five years on from the February 22nd, 2011,\u00a0 earthquake that did most of the damage—still has not been restored. This is because we still have not been able to resolve our insurance claim with IAG NZ , despite not inconsiderable effort (and expense incurred in trying) to do so.<\/p>\n

This is something that I have been thinking is material for this year’s February 22nd commemorative blog — but yesterday’s earthquakes certainly brought it all into focus. So, too, did the widened (existing from 2011) cracks in various places, aka ‘let’s open that up just a little — or even a lot — wider.’<\/p>\n

Not what any of us needed, I’m sure — but then, as I also observed on Twitter: “Alas, my preferences were not consulted.” :-\/<\/p>\n

Didn’t think I’d be writing another actual earthquake report though, as opposed to a commemorative post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yep, this morning I want to reflect on yesterday’s “high 5” earthquake (plus aftershocks:\u00a0 shudders, nasty — or perhaps I mean, nasty shudders!) Five years ago, we experienced eighteen months of unmitigated awful with the Christchurch earthquakes (from September 2010 to December 2011). Since then, the earthquakes have never\u00a0 completely died away, but yesterday, for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakereports","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31426"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31434,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31426\/revisions\/31434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}