Best wishes to any CWers and all other kiwis in the city. No reports of injuries yet that I've found since getting home ten minutes ago, which is good news.
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Originally Posted by Ausage
From a geological point of view is a quake of this size expected in the year or two after the first one?
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From what I understand from the GNS bloke who came in to uni to give a talk to us, the fault system in the Canterbury area has been dormant for a few thousand years, but the first earthquake set it moving again. This is a long term thing unfortunately.
EDIT: apparently there is a school of thought in GNS that expects these size of quakes to be quite a regular occurrence for the next century in the Canterbury area. This presents a problem where they have a race to build everything to appropriate standard before a quake tips it all over again...
I have no idea how widespread that thought is though. I'm just an undergrad spouting what my lecturers and random GNS peeps tell me.