Very good to hear that you and yours are safe and healthy. Hopefully its all over with for a good long while! Take care.
Massive earthquake
- Thread starter Van Presence
- Start date
- Status
trippy1313
Member (SA)
iv only just got my free view tv working tonight. yes it apparently was 7.8. WOW!Robb said:
yes it was huge! extreme shaking for over 2 min, was only 16km deep which is not that deep. no major cities near the big 1. small towns, including mine. haLasonic TRC-920 said:
so far its taken 2 lives. 2 different houses collapsed. 1 in eachWill said:
some say the super moon has an effect but i dont think so. just purely random. the warning was a loud rumble noise then instant shaking, took about 10sec to really get going. seriously violentredbenjoe said:
so i only just got my wifi back on last night so havent really been on the net.
think there been over 1500 aftershocks all over the country since 12.02am monday morning. there has been (i think) 4 fault lines going off at the same time. some are very close to me. most others are 100+km north of me. the big 7.8 was according to google earth 23km west of my house. i was just about to get in bed, so thankfully i was still fully clothed and in a doorway. the thought came to me at the start to get into my boom room and try stopping some from falling. all i had time to do was turn light on then it started to properly shake and the power went out. then it was about a minute and a half of me being thrown around in the doorway, so loud i couldnt even hear the sound of all my crockery and glasses being thrown out of my cupboards 2 meters away from me. i even yelled to myself "Holy fark". when it finally calmed down a bit i got outside. it was another 2 minutes before it finally stopped.
i had a good idea where my head torch was, so went and found. ran straight over to my nanas house. hers was the most dangerous of all our houses. big 100yr old homestead. multiple brick chimneys. got in and got her out. everyone safe but well shaken.
i managed to get to bed about 4.30am. very troubled 2 hr sleep. aftershocks every 2-3 minutes for most of next 24hrs. 6.7 was biggest on monday afternoon
7.8 is the big 1, brookdale is my house. 23km
thankfully most my radios were already on the ground but this is how they were
how my speakers landed. turntables were an inch away from falling off. first thing i moved
my kitchen. there was 2 radios in the pile of glass and food. moved before found camera
nanas kitchen
dads kitchen
think there been over 1500 aftershocks all over the country since 12.02am monday morning. there has been (i think) 4 fault lines going off at the same time. some are very close to me. most others are 100+km north of me. the big 7.8 was according to google earth 23km west of my house. i was just about to get in bed, so thankfully i was still fully clothed and in a doorway. the thought came to me at the start to get into my boom room and try stopping some from falling. all i had time to do was turn light on then it started to properly shake and the power went out. then it was about a minute and a half of me being thrown around in the doorway, so loud i couldnt even hear the sound of all my crockery and glasses being thrown out of my cupboards 2 meters away from me. i even yelled to myself "Holy fark". when it finally calmed down a bit i got outside. it was another 2 minutes before it finally stopped.
i had a good idea where my head torch was, so went and found. ran straight over to my nanas house. hers was the most dangerous of all our houses. big 100yr old homestead. multiple brick chimneys. got in and got her out. everyone safe but well shaken.
i managed to get to bed about 4.30am. very troubled 2 hr sleep. aftershocks every 2-3 minutes for most of next 24hrs. 6.7 was biggest on monday afternoon
7.8 is the big 1, brookdale is my house. 23km
thankfully most my radios were already on the ground but this is how they were
how my speakers landed. turntables were an inch away from falling off. first thing i moved
my kitchen. there was 2 radios in the pile of glass and food. moved before found camera
nanas kitchen
dads kitchen
Attachments
havent tested my PC11. took a bad hit
1 chimney down
there was 5 chimneys on this house last week
rail overpass 5min down the road
nice crack
1 chimney down
there was 5 chimneys on this house last week
rail overpass 5min down the road
nice crack
trippy1313
Member (SA)
crazygamer
Member (SA)
These photos are hard to watch, but sadly, that´s the power of nature for you. As it has been already said, radios can be replaced, but lives not, so i hope everything is alright for you. 
Take care !
Take care !
T-STER
Member (SA)
Wow those pictures really bring home the destructive power. Words seem a bit empty after seeing that but truly i hope you are all ok and things calm down. Hopefully all your blasters survived to. You know that all at Boomboxery are on hand to help with repairs and parts. Small consolation i know.
All the best mate.
All the best mate.
BoomboxLover48
Boomus Fidelis
Hisrudeness
Member (SA)
markoneswift
Member (SA)
A bit late to the party here, but glad you are all good there mate. We felt the quake up here in Hamilton too ! Nothing displaced or broken but our pool sloshed out about 2000 litres of water !!! It was like it had it's own tide, it was really mad to watch.
- Status