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[barmyarmy]

Yeah, not a lot of people outside of the country realize how vulnerable New Zealand is in terms of earthquakes and (underground) volcanic activity. There is a massive fault line that runs north to south over a lot of the country. When the really big earthquake hit in 1840 or so the land rose 14 meters in some places!

Yup. I remember the kids doing earthquake drills at the school I worked at. Fortunately damage is only to property and not human life.

 

[-D-S-B-]

Very very fortunate it wasn't during the day. There would've been deaths for sure considering the damage was throughout the city centre. Very scary.

It was the same size earthquake that rocked Haiti, luckily our buildings are a lot stronger.

 

[Covvy]

Seeing the pics today on the news and in the paper I'm amazed that nobody was killed, guess it helped been at 4.00am in the morning.

 

[Cricketman]

We've got some family friends over in Aukland, hopefully they are okay.

 

[barmyarmy]

It was in South Island.

 

[Chewie]

We had a 8.1 quake in Fiordland a year or two ago that moved us closer to you guys as well

 

[thedon5]

Yeah, not a lot of people outside of the country realize how vulnerable New Zealand is in terms of earthquakes and (underground) volcanic activity. There is a massive fault line that runs north to south over a lot of the country. When the really big earthquake hit in 1840 or so the land rose 14 meters in some places!

You're definitely right there, Wellington just has so much earthquake activity and ever since British settlers arrived in NZ there has been quite a few earthquakes down here.

As for volcanic activity, what is thought to be the biggest volcanic eruption in the history of the world occured in NZ and formed Lake Taupo. Auckland has a massive amount of volcanoes all over the city as well.

Though, since it is well known that NZ is on a large fault line, education is top notch, especially in schools and offices. AFAIK, most offices and schools have plans in case of an earthquake, and Civil Defence also gives people plans in case an earthquake occurs. The planning was great, and the fact that it hit the CBD while people were in the suburbs is a top reason as to why no-one has been killed as of yet.

Great news to see that there has been no loss of life after such a severe earthquake.

 

[Chewie]

One person died of a heart attack but they are not sure whether it's related to the earthquake or not.

I remember being taught the procedure for what to do in an earthquake in year 1 (first year of school at 5 years old)

 

[CG123]

I know I've been taught, but I remember ████ all about it.
The only think I remember is go under a desk, or the door frame.

 

[Chewie]

Yea I think that's all it was. We used to have drills :laugh

tbh though that's not the best place to be in an earthquake.

 

[CG123]

At school we have fire drills, and armed invader drills, incase someone comes along with a weapon, nothing for earthquakes though.

 

[Chewie]

This was at primary school. Ages ago lol

The armed invader drills are always fun. Just stay in the room doing nothing.

 

[CG123]

We have to like lie on the floor and ████, the funny thing is once they think it's all clear we have to go outside, just have like another dude hiding in the bushes, and that's like 2500 easy targets. :laugh

 

[Chewie]

I suppose it depends on what floor you're on. Ground floor would probably be on lie on the floor, but above that it'd just be keep away from the windows.

 

[CG123]

We were in Physics for this drill, the floor was a piece of ████. Dirt etc. all over it.
Lucky our teacher's all good, so we didn't really "participate" in the drill.