# Why won't these damn aftershocks stop! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 13, 2010, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-these-damn-aftershocks-stop/556993 "2010-10-13T13:45:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![davidNZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@davidNZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidNZ)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-these-damn-aftershocks-stop/556993/41 "2010-10-19T03:21:24Z")
> [@bengangmo](#): > > Hi David…fellow Cantabrian here…my place is at Church Corner (very near to Villa Maria)…I heard over the weekend that there were yet more aftershocks. How are things now? Should be getting back somewhere to normal right? is the Dux still one of the cheapest places in town to get a beer (their pitchers are the biggest around). > > The pub where my dad worked growing up was condemned - so sad… c below lol ---
**Author:** ![davidNZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@davidNZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidNZ)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-these-damn-aftershocks-stop/556993/42 "2010-10-19T03:22:32Z")
> [@bengangmo](#): > > Hi David…fellow Cantabrian here…my place is at Church Corner (very near to Villa Maria)…I heard over the weekend that there were yet more aftershocks. How are things now? Should be getting back somewhere to normal right? is the Dux still one of the cheapest places in town to get a beer (their pitchers are the biggest around). > > The pub where my dad worked growing up was condemned - so sad… We had a really nasty 5.0 this morning at about 11:30 it felt alot bigger because it was really shallow. It was quite violent, part of the roof at Riccarton mall collapsed. We also had about 8 aftershocks or whatever you wanna call them over the past 24 hours. No the Dux is about the same as all the other pubs (too much) but it was nice. That sux about your dads pub, it wasn’t the lincoln was it? my friends dad use to own it. ---
**Author:** ![davidNZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@davidNZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidNZ)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-these-damn-aftershocks-stop/556993/43 "2010-10-19T03:26:48Z")
> [@maggenpye](#): > > [Another](http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4248356/Severe-aftershock-hits-Christchurch) 5.0 aftershock an hour ago. Shallow and close. More damage. > > My heart goes out to you southern (South Islanderian?) dopers. > > We’ve donated what we can. What else can we do to help? Thank you so much - you are helping right now! thanks for the support and just keep sending you good thoughts it is much appreciated! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![davidNZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@davidNZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidNZ)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-these-damn-aftershocks-stop/556993/44 "2010-10-19T03:47:37Z")
To correct my other post there have been 20 aftershocks over the last 24 hours as at 4:47pm NZ time ---
**Author:** ![davidNZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@davidNZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidNZ)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-these-damn-aftershocks-stop/556993/45 "2010-10-19T04:02:03Z")
also a site with pics of the aftermath and info and some videos [Canterbury quake may have been on 'new' fault line - NZ Herald](http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10671089) ---
**Author:** ![ramel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb8c5e/32.png) [@ramel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ramel)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-these-damn-aftershocks-stop/556993/46 "2010-10-19T04:35:55Z")
Is this number of small earthquakes abnormal? I know small earthquakes are very common, but I don’t know what it was like years before this recent large one. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-these-damn-aftershocks-stop/556993/47 "2010-10-19T17:03:02Z")
I thought I read somewhere that New Zealand has thousands of earthquakes a year, but 99% of them are so faint (or they originate at sea) that either you can’t feel them or they’re barely a tremble. Such a beautiful place. I’d move there in a minute if I could. Hang on, Kiwi Dopers! ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-these-damn-aftershocks-stop/556993/48 "2010-10-19T19:14:41Z")
We don’t call ourselves “Shaky Isles” for nothing! Yes, we’re right on the edge of the Pacific ‘Ring of fire’ and quakes are common along the faultlines. I grew up in Wellington and currently live in the Hawke’s Bay, both areas smack on that line. What I’m used to is nothing like what the guys in Chriustchurch are going through - our recent cluster of quakes is something like a half dozen over a week, the largest being a 5.1 quite deep and distant (the one at the weekend felt like the ground just lifted a couple of inches and dropped back). Christchurch is getting hundreds a week, close by and shallow - thousands since the main shake. PTSD is becoming common, their houses are accumulating damage with each large aftershock and they are on a previously _unknown_ fault. They’re not ‘meant’ to have earthquakes at all! ---
**Author:** ![Ritter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ritter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ritter)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-these-damn-aftershocks-stop/556993/49 "2010-10-19T21:18:31Z")
**bengangmo** , was it the Duvauchelle pub you referred to? ---
**Author:** ![davidNZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@davidNZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidNZ)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-these-damn-aftershocks-stop/556993/50 "2010-10-21T03:17:28Z")
> [@ramel](#): > > Is this number of small earthquakes abnormal? I know small earthquakes are very common, but I don’t know what it was like years before this recent large one. From what I have learned by searching the net and stuff, it is quite normal, experts have said that Christchurch will experience quakes/aftershocks for at least a year. B4 the big 1 I have in my 32 years only felt a total of 4 earthquakes. Well that number has certainly changed over the past 7 weeks. The scary thing is Christchurch has not had an aftershock for over 24 hours, and im not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing, it is very stressfull ---
**Author:** ![davidNZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@davidNZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidNZ)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-these-damn-aftershocks-stop/556993/51 "2010-10-21T03:20:44Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > I thought I read somewhere that New Zealand has thousands of earthquakes a year, but 99% of them are so faint (or they originate at sea) that either you can’t feel them or they’re barely a tremble. > > Such a beautiful place. I’d move there in a minute if I could. Hang on, Kiwi Dopers! yip that sounds about right. The problem is that the ones we are getting now are from a new fault that no-one ever new it existed. very scary. Oh and yeah come on over it is a lovely place to live even if the ground is shaking lol btw where are you from? ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-these-damn-aftershocks-stop/556993/52 "2010-10-21T05:17:07Z")
> [@Ritter](#): > > **bengangmo** , was it the Duvauchelle pub you referred to? You know it? If I answer that question its going to be pretty much obvious who I am…anybody will be able to work me out pretty easily… ---
**Author:** ![davidNZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@davidNZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidNZ)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-these-damn-aftershocks-stop/556993/53 "2010-10-21T06:36:15Z")
> [@bengangmo](#): > > You know it? If I answer that question its going to be pretty much obvious who I am…anybody will be able to work me out pretty easily… Really? I have no idea who you are and really don’t care, do you really think that highly of yourself. Oh I better not say anymore cause people will know who I am…oh bugger my cover has been blown! grow up! ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-these-damn-aftershocks-stop/556993/54 "2010-10-21T06:58:07Z")
> [@davidNZ](#): > > Really? I have no idea who you are and really don’t care, do you really think that highly of yourself. Oh I better not say anymore cause people will know who I am…oh bugger my cover has been blown! grow up! nah…but there’s stuff I’ve shared here on the basis of being annonymous…stuff that I don’t neccessarily want old classmates, family friends or otherwise neccessarily knowing…you, I don’t know from a bar of soap - its others that I would be more worried about… ---
**Author:** ![davidNZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@davidNZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidNZ)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-these-damn-aftershocks-stop/556993/55 "2010-10-21T07:32:20Z")
> [@bengangmo](#): > > nah…but there’s stuff I’ve shared here on the basis of being annonymous…stuff that I don’t neccessarily want old classmates, family friends or otherwise neccessarily knowing…you, I don’t know from a bar of soap - its others that I would be more worried about… fair enough mate, now i understand what you mean. I actually feel the same way, sorry if I jumped the gun. full credit mate 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ritter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ritter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ritter)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-these-damn-aftershocks-stop/556993/56 "2010-10-21T09:56:36Z")
**bengangmo** , no worries, say no more. It is a damn shame that the Duvauchelle pub was damaged because it must be one of the oldest hotels in the country. 1860s vintage I believe? Having said that, I can’t find any concrete information about what is happening to it. There was a seed exchange meeting (lovely!) in its car park last week and that’s the most I can glean. ---
**Author:** ![Ritter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ritter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ritter)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-these-damn-aftershocks-stop/556993/57 "2010-10-21T19:35:28Z")
I have the locals’ dope on the Duvauchelle Hotel, partly damaged, partly fine. They are looking to rebuild using the original materials where possible, hurrah! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-these-damn-aftershocks-stop/556993.md?page=2)