Last week the city I live in was utterly devastated by a cataclysmic earthquake – one with a ground acceleration over 2G (twice the force of gravity), making it among the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded in the world. It’s not often you get to start a blog post with a sentence like that. I [...]

It’s now been 4 and a half days since the massive magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit my home city of Christchurch, New Zealand. My previous blog post had some photos taken the day of the quake. Today I went out and took a few more pictures in my local vicinity. It feels a little weird to [...]

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this rather unsettling news bulletin… I live in Christchurch, New Zealand and yesterday morning I was jolted awake at 4:35 am by the biggest earthquake to hit this area in the last 80 years. The quake measured a sizeable 7.1 in magnitude – that’s comparable to [...]