Geoscience Australia reports show that 71 people in the town of 940 felt the ground move at 2.30am.
Iām gonna go with GA not literally stating any such thing.
But they should have reported this as 69 were asleep and the two others wereā¦ der, 69.
You would hope that this stark picture makes it easy to identify the decent local builders versus the dodgy brother types who cut corners.
Call me a cynic, but this happened late February and photos then showed mass devastation.
Hard for me to believe that it was all cleared in 6 weeks. I have done projects in Turkey and they are very competent, but very slow.
If true it is an amazing clean up.
I doubt the whole cleanup is done, but clearing everything in an area that size is realistic. Just bulk earthmoving equipment. Thereās probably towns that havenāt been started in earnest yet.
In five weeks ? We have had some houses in Maribyrnong get flooded months ago and they are still a shambles.
Erdogan has an election something like 40 days away. Imagine what you can do with 20 bulldozers and zero red tape or OHS considerations.
Based on the location of that - yep that would have been my 14yo letting one rip during his morning break.
Explains the āexplosiveā noises as well!
Yep lets blame St Joes!
Nah this is Blitz, this has Dodoroās fingerprints all over itā¦drafts too many tall skinny tectonic platesā¦or is that too many midget tectonic plates ā¦no waitā¦too many tectonic plates that start in the back half and transition to the centreā¦
@barry_day, Iām a bit embarrassed that this made the earthquake thread. Shouldnāt it be in the loud party popper thread?
I enjoyed this line in the article:
āThe Bureau of Meteorology said there is no tsunami threat to Australia.ā
We just got a tsunami alert on our phones over here in NZ so of course the kids have driven to the beach to see whatās happening.
Tsunami warning lifted for New Caledonia, which would seem to be closest to the quake.