Earth's surface 'lurches 11ft to the right' as New Zealand earthquake rips new faultline

Mail Online ^ | 9/6/2010 | Daily Mail

[sodpoodle]

The earthquake that devastated a city in New Zealand tore open a new 11ft faultine in the Earth’s surface. The 7.1-magnitude quake which hit Christchurch, the country’s second-largest city, destroyed about 500 buildings and caused an estimated £930million of damage.

The quake was caused by the continuing collision between the Pacific and Australian tectonic plates, said Professor Mark Quigley, of Canterbury University. ‘One side of the Earth has lurched to the right ... up to 11ft and in some places been thrust up,’ he said. ‘We went and saw two houses that were completely snapped in half by the earthquake.’

[sodpoodle]

Good Photos & charts

[Tennessee Nana]

Thanks for the pics..

Columbo Street runs right through Cathedral Square (well around it ...both sides)

The center of CHCH

[agere_contra]

This was a 7.1 earthquake, as opposed to the 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti.

Are we going to send billions of dollars in aid to New Zealand? Are the Zealanders living in tents next to their unburied dead? Are they waiting for the world to save them?

No. Because, unlike Haiti, the Zealanders built proper houses. Also, the New Zealanders have a certain level of self-reliance and learned competence.

There’s a lesson there somewhere.

[hal ogen]

I recently talked with someone who works in Haiti with a non-profit. He said the Haitian “salute” is an outstretched hand. Does anyone have the total amount of “aid & assistance” given to the moronic Haitians over the past century? Truly a “black hole” for funds and effort.

[wideawake]

How are you holding up?

[markomalley]

Earth's surface 'lurches 11ft to the right'

So does that mean that the earth is becoming more conservative?

[wideawake]

Haitians have a heritage of slavery and dependency. Unlike New Zealanders, it was not their ancestors’ decision to emigrate. Their cultures are different for historical reasons and the difference is an illustration of the lasting effects of cruelty and injustice.

[tanknetter]

Unlike New Zealanders, it was not their ancestors’ decision to emigrate.

Question: how many of the early New Zealand English settlers were convicts (really just guilty of minor crimes when Mother England decided to clear out her underclass) sentenced to transport, and therefore had no say in their decision to emigrate? I know a good portion of Australian's were (including the branch of my family that ended up there).

[mo]

that's a pretty racist observation there about Haitians. Basically saying they CAN'T help it ...so why try?

So the Jews Moses led out of Egypt really shouldn’t have gone for that independence stuff? That generations of slavery and dependence had so perverted their decision-making capability that culturally they were doomed to dependency and the consequences of poor decision-making?

[bert]

.....One side of the Earth has lurched to the right ....

Doesn’t that depend on your point of view? How do we know the other side did not move to the left?

[Mrs.Z]

***Haitians have a heritage of slavery and dependency.***

Worse than that, they have a heritage of satan worship in the form of voodoo.

As you worship, you become more like the thing you worship.

[sodpoodle]

Good one!!!

[bert]

You left off the French part.

France + Africa = 0

[wideawake]

New Zealand was not used for penal transportation as a matter of British policy. Australia was, but 95% of its early settlers were voluntary emigrants. The US state of Georgia also began as a penal colony, but only a tiny percentage of its white inhabitants were prisoners.

[agere_contra]

It’s a mystery. What makes one culture succeed and the other one sit by the road with its hand out?

It’s not the history of being treated cruelly - otherwise the Jews would be a loser culture like Haiti. Which they are not.

One thing that certainly doesn’t help is ‘Aid’. Being supplied free rice by America (at the behest of the American Left) essentially destroyed Haitian farmers. No people, however self-reliant, can compete with free food.

In contrast, the folks in NZ and Australia had to do everything for themselves. So they did.

[Woodman]

Australia was for the petty criminals, New Zealand and Tasmania were reserved for the hard core criminals. In it's early history, New Zealand was almost exclusively Military or felons.

[Bigg Red]

Yes, the photos and graphics are great. Thanks for posting this.

[wideawake]

So if you disagree with someone's analysis, they're a racist? That's a rhetorical tactic of some kind, but it isn't a conservative one.

Your analogy is terrible, by the way. The Hebrews emigrated to Egypt voluntarily. The African ancestors of the Haitians did not voluntarily emigrate to Haiti. The Hebrews were miraculously liberated from slavery by direct divine intervention, led by divinely appointed prophets to their own ancestral homeland and given a full set of laws and institutions by God himself. The Haitians have not had these benefits.

[mo]

Assuming their heritage is their excuse for their circumstance is racist. It also absolves them of responsibility to make good decisions.

[wideawake]

We all, like the Haitians, have a cultural ancestry of the worship of false gods.

Unlike the Haitians, most of our ancestors were fully evangelized, while the Haitians were only partially because the slavetraders who brought them to Haiti cared more about their labor than their souls.

Rather than judge Haitians who were not fortunate enough to have the instructors most of our ancestors had, you should just be thankful to have the gift of a faith that you did not earn or merit in any way.