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So check this out...

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This is in one of the harder hit areas, and it is a bit hard to tell from the photo, but the railway line is suspended in the air.  Have a look from the other side in this video... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11750507 - at least, as far as I can tell, it is the same "disturbance."

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7 hours ago, The Fat Unicyclist said:

So check this out...

nintchdbpict000282082561-e1479112035614.

 

This is in one of the harder hit areas, and it is a bit hard to tell from the photo, but the railway line is suspended in the air.  Have a look from the other side in this video... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11750507 - at least, as far as I can tell, it is the same "disturbance."

That really is unbelievable. 

The destructive nature of an earthquake. With such a high value on the Richter scale, is a wonderful thing that there was not more damage and a tremendous blessing there was not more loss of life

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3 hours ago, Greg Spalding said:

That really is unbelievable. 

The destructive nature of an earthquake. With such a high value on the Richter scale, is a wonderful thing that there was not more damage and a tremendous blessing there was not more loss of life

Yes. Having a lower population density has good points - the lower loss of life being one of them!

Particularly with the amount of movement that is now being realised...

We're getting a better idea of how the earthquake has changed the country.
GNS says the east coast of the lower North Island has shifted west by up to five centimetres.
Meanwhile, the Wellington and Kapiti regions have been shunted up to six centimetres north.
The north-east tip of the South Island has moved by more than two metres and lifted almost a metre.
Cape Campbell is now two metres closer to the North Island than it was before.
Kaikoura has moved a metre and lifted 70-centimetres, and Hanmer Springs has jumped half a metre east.
Christchurch and Banks Peninsula are now about two centimetres further south than where they were before Monday's earthquake.
Some parts of the west coast of the South Island have shifted east by up to 10-centimetres.
But the top of the North Island, and bottom of the South Island, have moved mere millimetres.
GNS scientists used global positioning systems to reveal the shifts - and they say the results are astonishing.

All this movement happened in just seconds.

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29 minutes ago, The Fat Unicyclist said:

Yes. Having a lower population density has good points - the lower loss of life being one of them!

Particularly with the amount of movement that is now being realised...

We're getting a better idea of how the earthquake has changed the country.
GNS says the east coast of the lower North Island has shifted west by up to five centimetres.
Meanwhile, the Wellington and Kapiti regions have been shunted up to six centimetres north.
The north-east tip of the South Island has moved by more than two metres and lifted almost a metre.
Cape Campbell is now two metres closer to the North Island than it was before.
Kaikoura has moved a metre and lifted 70-centimetres, and Hanmer Springs has jumped half a metre east.
Christchurch and Banks Peninsula are now about two centimetres further south than where they were before Monday's earthquake.
Some parts of the west coast of the South Island have shifted east by up to 10-centimetres.
But the top of the North Island, and bottom of the South Island, have moved mere millimetres.
GNS scientists used global positioning systems to reveal the shifts - and they say the results are astonishing.

All this movement happened in just seconds.

It really does help teach us a lesson about how tenuous our existence really is on this planet

I appreciate that information above, as well

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