6.5 quake in wellington

[wayno]

widespread moderate building damage in the central city.
minor casualties reported so far
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8945358 ... ew-Zealand

[Strider]

C'mon Wayno living in NZ you should know the quakes were not in Wellington!

[wayno]

50k away in the strait, the damage is in wellington

[Strider]

Blenheim copped it much harder than Wellington.

[GPSGuided]

Hope all are safe. Was in Christchurch and experienced a 5.4 aftershock once. It was scary enough.

[wayno]

burst water pipes plus stock coming off shelves are the only reported damage in blenheim so far

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8945943 ... l-round-up

[wayno]

on twitter

Philippa Ormrod ?@pipormy 58m
Major damage at Seddon, the epicentre of the quake. Houses wrecked, power out. People gathering at community centre

[wayno]

yanks reported it was centred in victoria and felt all over aus, everyone checked for damage?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... d=10901374

[matagi]

yanks reported it was centred in victoria and felt all over aus, everyone checked for damage?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... d=10901374

Damn! And I thought it was the loud party down the road that was responsible for the vibrations I was feeling.
Better duck down to the beach and see how much of the coast has fallen into the water.

[wayno]

someone thought seddon in melbourne was the epicentre and it was felt in napier western aus

[matagi]

Yes, I know. I read the article.

[Strider]

That US article is written like a kids school project. How this guy passed Journalism at uni I have no idea.

[GPSGuided]

We all know that a lot of Americans are very bad in geography, especially internationally. The more important problem here, how dare a journalist write an article write on something they should know they know little about? Do they not check? And how did he even think up all the geographical links? Was he fed bad info or did he just dream it all up? Just amazing!

[wayno]

google isnt the friend he thought it was.....

[GPSGuided]

google isnt the friend he thought it was.....

Googling can be a challenge these days!

[Onestepmore]

Here's the corrected version, with the original included as well
if it wasn't serious, it'd be funny
http://guardianlv.com/2013/07/severe-ea ... australia/