Our thoughts are with you Christchurch

[McPhan]

Having just recently visited this beautiful city the group are feeling keenly the damage and disruption caused.

Please know that we are thinking of you and know that the resilience if the Chch people will help them endure the rebuilding period.

[Scout]

From the US, I'm following news from New Zealand closely and hoping all get through it OK.

[Graeme.N]

... and I hope the caches have survived, too!

But seriously, my thoughts and prayers (and those of my family) are with the people of Christchurch: may you be safe and well, and may your beautiful city not be too badly marred, and may you all - people and city - recover well and quickly.

[One-Fang]

Thank you guys. Thankfully the damage appears to be somewhat minimal, and it's extremely lucky that fatalities are zero and injuries incredibly minor. Still can't believe we got off from a 7.1 with THAT little going on. I know some buildings are just gone but ... half the city should be, and it's not.

Ongoing aftershocks are a bit freaky though. The constant "Argh! It's another one! Oh, no it's just an aftershock." Something like 30 times a day.

Wonder if any caches moved?

[One-Fang]

New faultline is roughly here, so it doesn't look like any are at risk of having actually moved from it.

[kiwitonita]

Thanks for the kind thoughts. A customer in Wellington wrote: "If people could sell concrete lumps off the Berlin wall, maybe ChCh should sell memorial bricks as a fundraiser. It would pay people in Wellington to buy one to remind them that a worse earthquake is due here."

Thankful to be living on the west side of the city with no structural damage at all. Agreed, those stroppy aftershocks are pretty unnerving.

[kiwitonita]

This Google Map of the shocks is interesting: Christchurch earthquake: Where the land shook

[Papa Bear_Left]

At least they have geocaching's finest disaster response planner right to hand...

We heard it about it over here in Melbourne, where we're attending a convention. There's a few Cantabrians also attending who are anxious about what they'll find when they get back!

We got in touch with a couple of friends and were pleased to learn that their damage was minimal. We hope that the same can be said about the rest of our community there.

[Kiwi Nomad]

Here in Ashburton I certainly felt it. My thoughts were that we better not be too far from the epic center or else someone else would be getting an even worse wake up. Only one building roped off here due to cracks and new cracks in the church I attend which will have to be checked out at some stage. I grew up in Christchurch. Always thought the years of earthquake proofing was a waste of time - guess I was wrong - seems it must have helped.
The clock tower on the old railway station has cracks in it sure hope it doesn't have to be pulled down.

[stegan]

The town clock and university clock here in Dunedin both stopped.

Great graphics - I will use at least one of them in class tomorrow, cheers for the links. Though I'm sure those smilies near the fault should look a little more !

This and Fox certainly puts hunting snap locks into perspective. Master four wanted us to go up immediately and fix everybody's houses!

[One-Fang]

"If people could sell concrete lumps off the Berlin wall, maybe ChCh should sell memorial bricks as a fundraiser.

TradeMe will sell anything. You can buy lumps of the road that was most badly damaged at the epicentre.

[One-Fang]

At least they have geocaching's finest disaster response planner right to hand...

I wonder if he's caching on the way...

Nah, surely not.

[GSVNoFixedAbode]

Naah - he's swanning about in helicopters from that last FB post! Seriously though I suspect the Rouge Reptile will be a rather tired chap by now - he's been going hard out since early Sat. morning.

[tgsnoopy]

Naah - he's swanning about in helicopters from that last FB post! Seriously though I suspect the Rouge Reptile will be a rather tired chap by now - he's been going hard out since early Sat. morning.

Says a man who claims to have gone up to attend a Birthday Party. We all know he went up to experience it first hand from a motel guest perspective

[Graeme.N]

I used to sleep thru' earthquakes while "growing-up" in Gisborne ... only ever woke up for one and that was because it was banging a wooden 6+ foot bookcase against my bedroom wall ... even slept thru' the commotion my family made (running around, crashing into each other) right outside my (open) bedroom door when one of the local schools was lighting up the night sky with its flames ... tho' somehow I suspect I would have woken up for this earthquake.