NZ Earthquake damage!

Gavin Sowry

Gavin Sowry

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This ain't photoshop.

To the left, the Pacific Ocean. The road is State Highway 1, and the railway is the Main North Line. The track at the bottom of the pic is 'anchored' by a tunnel, and those white marks on the road are from the concrete sleepers as they dragged the rails into the sea.
 
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We have two topics titled Monday 14 November 2016, one in G Scale Pictures and one in Coffee Lounge. can they please be combined in Coffee lounge.

David
 
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David1226 said:
Moderator Alert

We have two topics titled Monday 14 November 2016, one in G Scale Pictures and one in Coffee Lounge. can the please be combined in Coffee lounge.

David
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Woops, my bad. Thought I was posting in Coffee Lounge..... we were shaking at the time, mind you.
 
Why not just edit the Title to something like Earthquake Damage to Coast Line if that is what it is.
JonD
 
Good call Jon - done.
And amazing that that sideways force is produced - or was it a tsunami.
 
Amazing, and it looks like the track at the top of the picture i anchored by a load of hillside which has slid down on to it.
 
Yes, there was warning of tsunamis, the early ones at 2.5m wave height but the possibility of 5m waves.

We have friends from way back on the North Island, but they have one of their children's families on South - all reported OK.
 
At first I thought the actual track had string-lined due to earth movement, but then I realised the landslide out of shot at the top has just pushed the whole lot into the sea. That's gonna take a bit of work to fix.
 
Thoughts are with everyone over there - have all the NZ forum members reported in as OK?

Jon.
 
Just watched some helicopter footage (on NewsHub), possibly the still was taken from it??
The landslips go on, and on.. There is a largish headland, with quite vertical sides, and the road and track are buried / gone all the way round.

Guessing this route was man-made, and there is not another route to speak of? - Certainly for rail.

This puts the spot of bother at Dawlish in the shade.
 
Headline..... NRM Collection Unscathed in Massive Earthquake.

Above my desk at work, I have a moderate collection of NRM series models (because I've been there, and seen these). Spent all day yesterday worrying about their fate. Lo and behold, I walk in this morning, and they are completely intact.... unlike my drawers, and books etc that are strewn all over the floor.

Monday, Earthquake. Tuesday, Floods...... tomorrow, Locusts ?
 
Hope everyone over there okay....
 
On the news in Oz the was footage of three cows stuck on outcrop left by the quake, there was only just enough room for the to stand.
 
simon@mgr said:
On the news in Oz the was footage of three cows stuck on outcrop left by the quake, there was only just enough room for the to stand.
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(Sing) Three cows on a mountain..... (to the tune of Three coins in a Fountain).

Or, as our agrarian friends would say, a pretty high stocking ratio.
 
casey jones snr said:
My goodness me.
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Heaps more photos now floating* around like that at work. There are at least a dozen sites similar to this with the track heading out to sea. No trains there this side of Christmas (I won't say what year).

* that is the appropriate word for the day. Capital city now isolated by floods....
 
(Another) M5.9 aftershock, just before the afternoon peak. Trains cancelled, roads flooded.... got out of Dodge, just in time.
 
Gavin Sowry said:
Headline..... NRM Collection Unscathed in Massive Earthquake.

Above my desk at work, I have a moderate collection of NRM series models (because I've been there, and seen these). Spent all day yesterday worrying about their fate. Lo and behold, I walk in this morning, and they are completely intact.... unlike my drawers, and books etc that are strewn all over the floor.

Monday, Earthquake. Tuesday, Floods...... tomorrow, Locusts ?
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Tomorrow Gavin is an influx of Aucklanders- similar to locusts! :-)
 
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