In which familiarity breeds contempt
Nov. 14th, 2010 09:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zeborahHad a wee 3.1 last night which I wouldn't have noticed, still less remarked upon, had it not been a mere 5km away and 6km deep (which is what, 8km as the worm tunnels? my goodness, an actual use for Pythagorus.) Also it happened about half a minute before I got disconnected from IRC (coincidentally, obviously; 3.1 is puny).
There were bigger ones in the night: a 3.8 just before I fell asleep which made the cat jump onto the floor but I didn't feel it otherwise; and a 4.7 of which I have vague memories of half-waking at the rumble and thinking, "Mmf, 'sbigger, <snore>" These two were both at the more normal distance of ~25km away (and 7-8km deep. All our aftershocks have been ridiculously shallow; occasionally there's one 1km deep and I start wondering at what point they call it a landslide instead).
The street my parents live on had for a couple of months various little cracks, a few millimetres to maybe a centimetre but not quite, really. Then the City Council came along and painted them all with black tar which filled them in while making them 100 times more noticeable than they had been.
EQC reckons they're going to pay all claims less than $10,000 by Christmas. I don't think this is remotely possible at the rate they're inspecting houses. (And I'm by no means dissing said rate; it's simply that they've got something like 100,000 houses to inspect all up.)
There were bigger ones in the night: a 3.8 just before I fell asleep which made the cat jump onto the floor but I didn't feel it otherwise; and a 4.7 of which I have vague memories of half-waking at the rumble and thinking, "Mmf, 'sbigger, <snore>" These two were both at the more normal distance of ~25km away (and 7-8km deep. All our aftershocks have been ridiculously shallow; occasionally there's one 1km deep and I start wondering at what point they call it a landslide instead).
The street my parents live on had for a couple of months various little cracks, a few millimetres to maybe a centimetre but not quite, really. Then the City Council came along and painted them all with black tar which filled them in while making them 100 times more noticeable than they had been.
EQC reckons they're going to pay all claims less than $10,000 by Christmas. I don't think this is remotely possible at the rate they're inspecting houses. (And I'm by no means dissing said rate; it's simply that they've got something like 100,000 houses to inspect all up.)
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Date: 2010-11-13 08:39 pm (UTC)I like the black tar, they have been doing it in various places around town and it has a calligraphic quality to it.
Yes, I woke for the 4.7, too. I hadn't noticed any for almost a week, I was beginning to feel quite relaxed and had forgotten how tense they make me feel even if it's just for a moment.
Catherine
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Date: 2010-11-14 01:17 am (UTC)The jolt of the 3.1 actually affected me a bit more than the 4.7 which I don't think I properly woke up for, and if I hadn't been looking at geonet this morning I'd have probably forgotten all about.