aah but it comes in a nice small vacuum pack

actually i cant believe it has 12 l of water in it!

With a slightly sadistic twinge, I can picture the aftermath now, with news reporters talking to people who are frantically looking for family members, and then stroll along to you drinking out of a nice crystal tumbler, worrying about how to keep your malts safe.

I think a still drink would be useful after an earthquake though. And it will at least bide the time before the Americans come to deliver coolant, ahem, water, and save the day.

After an earthquake, still would be good

Goodness me, I used completely the wrong word. Definitely grounds to crack open a bottle and begin the weekend properly, after all it is past midday now!

I'm not biting! A bottle of Vino Tinto already consumed.. but then again I have a time advantage at the moment.

Checked our emergency pack today bought the pack last year luckily its still in date .
Afterwards OH went out and bought a shed load of antispeptic wet wipes , enough loo roll to last forever , and a wind up radio, I think he feels hes now done his bit .

Might need to add iodine tablets to the kits if the ability to cool these nuclear reactors really has been lost.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ear-plant.html

That map isn't very clear, but it looks like roughly where Chch is.


Yet Australia is low risk and they still had one in Newcastle.

What's in it?

I got the Red Cross one, it has a wind up radio/flashlight and some water purification tablets etc.

I think when you look at the risk map for Australia the area from Sydney to Melbourne is actually moderate risk. I see the Newcastle earthquake was 5.6 which isn't really that powerful. UK is low risk and gets earthquakes in the 5 range every 20 years or so.

There was an article in the NCE about the Christchurch earthquake last week. It says the ground acceleration was recorded at 10 times the value the building design code required. The earthquake codes had come in in the 80s and it wasn't until 2004 that a retrofitting law came in giving 15 years for owners to upgrade buildings, and this was only to withstand 1/3 of the load required by the code.

Apparently codes require designs to withstand an earthquake which has a 10% chance of occuring over 50 years which equates to a 150 year event. The Christchurch earthquake exceeded a 1 in 1000 year event.

I remember reading that Vancouver has a retrofitting programme for older buildings. From what I remember it was quite a long term project. I would certainly think twice about living or working in a rc/masonary structure which hadn't been upgraded yet.

THe sky is falling, the sky is FALLIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!!

I would think twice about living in the low lying areas (think Richmond). Very susceptible to liquefaction and failures due to amplification of motion at resonant frequencies similar to all the buildings.

Think Kobe, Mexico City and Alaska.

Yes, and that was what screwed Christchurch as well - very susceptible to liquefaction. I wouldn't live in Richmond anyway but the fact it's below sea level doesn't help.

It has happened before
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700_Cascadia_earthquake


It came to light that it will happen again back in the 1980's.
http://archives.cbc.ca/environment/n...s/topics/1561/