I read a few days ago, maybe on the Sony Board, someone was visiting NZ soon.
So thought I'd mention Christchurch had a 7.1 earthquake, centered very close to the city. 300 000 people live there. No one died. Now is about 5 days later and the place is in state of emergency, there was a 7PM curfew, uncertain about now. Most water/power restored... 100 000 buildings are damaged or being pulled down before they fall down. The strongest after shocks each day are 5+, about 5.5 and some are causing huge cracks in the ground........ there is or was flooding in places from ground water surfacing, a child on tv digging into the ground as lost his bike, ground liquified swallowed the bike..... new and old houses/buildings torn in 2...
Anyway, Do not want to put anyone off visiting, its all uncertain, but if planning on visiting Christchurch, I'd double check everything... (or maybe avoid, concerning such visit to the city.... its a mess... there were/are parts of city/roads, closed off because of building damage...) although no doubt much unaffected.....
There is a back road going around the city. ?Day travel only? as it seems to be, worst affected area. There most likely has been road repairs, but there was big cracks/bent roads...
Photos.
http://www.google.co.nz/images?num=...=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1541&bih=905
Click on this, let it run a few minutes...you'll see the aftershocks/magnitude...
http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/
Wayne
PS: I'm in Queenstown, 6 hours drive south west...
So thought I'd mention Christchurch had a 7.1 earthquake, centered very close to the city. 300 000 people live there. No one died. Now is about 5 days later and the place is in state of emergency, there was a 7PM curfew, uncertain about now. Most water/power restored... 100 000 buildings are damaged or being pulled down before they fall down. The strongest after shocks each day are 5+, about 5.5 and some are causing huge cracks in the ground........ there is or was flooding in places from ground water surfacing, a child on tv digging into the ground as lost his bike, ground liquified swallowed the bike..... new and old houses/buildings torn in 2...
Anyway, Do not want to put anyone off visiting, its all uncertain, but if planning on visiting Christchurch, I'd double check everything... (or maybe avoid, concerning such visit to the city.... its a mess... there were/are parts of city/roads, closed off because of building damage...) although no doubt much unaffected.....
There is a back road going around the city. ?Day travel only? as it seems to be, worst affected area. There most likely has been road repairs, but there was big cracks/bent roads...
Photos.
http://www.google.co.nz/images?num=...=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1541&bih=905
Click on this, let it run a few minutes...you'll see the aftershocks/magnitude...
http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/
Wayne
PS: I'm in Queenstown, 6 hours drive south west...
"If was planning to visit, I'd visit... last I heard the airport was open "