This wasn’t going to be the topic of my next post, but you know, shit
happens, and as somebody who considers themselves an outsider to this New land
we call Zea, as well as somebody with an addictive habit for writing about
everything, it seemed appropriate to give you some thoughts from the front line
of shudder city.
You can’t predict the damage
The earthquake that hit near Kaikoura on
Sunday night/ Monday morning was much bigger than the one that
gave destroying Christchurch a really good go in 2011. The Kaikoura area has
been badly damaged but the devastation is nothing like the scale of that which
followed the Christchurch quake. This tells me two things:
1. It’s not always the size of the quake
on the Richter scale that’s the true indicator of how damaging an earthquake
can be, but where the epicentre is and how deep underground it is, and
2. The risk to personal safety is vastly
reduced when a quake happens during a time of day when people are not at work
or travelling.
