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link to video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hIQaJg3lVM
Yeah, that looks like transformers popping (falling off poles, etc).
Some of the videos are showing these lights out over the ocean.
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#152Not 100% applicable to New Zealand but here's the Tokyo disaster prepardness book --
http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/ENGLISH/GUIDE/BOSAI/
It has a lot of good practical information -- especially chapters 1 & 4. We all got one sent to our homes, and I thought it was quite useful!
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#153I was just reading this today on Wikipedia: "No evidence has been found of any correlation between supermoons with major earthquakes."
Well yes, because a supermoon is just when the moon being close to the earth happens to line up with the moon being full. The moon comes this close to the earth once a month.
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You're completely right. Earthquake codes save lives, but in liquefaction zones, the structures may be unlivable afterwards even if they're completely intact.
The point of earthquake codes is not that the buildings are livable in afterwards, in fact in Christchurch something like 30% of all buildings had to be demolished. The point is that they stay up long enough for rescuers to get in, and if they do collapse they collapse with survival cells rather than pancake. In Christchurch the buildings performed very well with exception of the CTV building which pancaked. Although…
Don't forget the PGG building... and all the unsecured facades that collapsed onto streets killing people, a risk known about since the 90s.
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
He is quoting the movie "Back to the Future" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/quotes?item=qt0416301
It doesn't matter, it's not appropriate when people are trapped under collapsed buildings and are dead.
The only thing that collapsed is your HN karma
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#156Had to laugh, consoled my daughter on the phone from here in the South Island last night and said "See, trumps been in 3 days now and the world hasnt ended yet" and at midnight it sure felt like it had!
At the risk of sounding pedantic, he doesn't take office until Inauguration Day on January 20.
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Yeah Wellington has always taken it seriously, I remember the building where I worked in 2002 had a sticker on it by the council saying the building wasn't earthquake safe. The buildings here are much more earthquake safe than Christchurch but also the damage potential is much higher.
> Yeah Wellington has always taken it seriously, Only sort of. We have the whole dynamic of pushing out the date buildings are supposed to be meeting requirements, and dodgy engineers signing off on buildings that are below target NBS.
That's what I'm referring to, yeah.
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> Yeah Wellington has always taken it seriously, Only sort of. We have the whole dynamic of pushing out the date buildings are supposed to be meeting requirements, and dodgy engineers signing off on buildings that are below target NBS.
As far as pushing out the dates, buildings with a big sticker on them saying they are unsafe tend to struggle to find tenants, and when they do the rent has to be very cheap, so most building owners either sell the buildings or strengthen them.
And that's why the property owners have been lobbying the councils to hold off on those big stickers - because then how could they afford to do the work that they'll totally do, within X years, if the rents drop?
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No, that 2.5m high one was the worst of the waves. http://images.geonet.org.nz/tsunami/plots/latest/detide.png It was most likely caused by a movement of sediment into the Hikurangi Trough.
Then why is it still reported that waves 3-5 meters are expected?
Also because your coastline can fundamentally change how it affects you - the gauges near Christchurch measured 0.5m appx at the highest, whereas an (empty, thank goodness) house at the end of a funnel shaped bay in the same vicinity got hit by an estimated 2 - 3m wave.