I am a long way from Christchurch but with the news of today’s earthquake there, it seems rather trivial to write a blog entry focusing on the weather or my results in the Round the Bays run on Sunday. With the Christchurch earthquake measuring 6.3-magnitude and occurring in the middle of the day, the death toll is already at 65 people. Just this past weekend, I visited the Awesome Forces exhibit at Te Papa Museum in Wellington. This exhibit tells “the story of New Zealand's dramatic landscape and the part that earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and the weather play in its shaping.” (http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/whatson/
exhibitions/pages/awesomeforces.
aspx).
If you check out GeoNet (http://www.geonet.org.nz/
earthquake/quakes/recent_quakes.html) for recent New Zealand earthquakes, you’ll be amazed to see the extent to which Christchurch gets hits by earthquakes, especially today.
It’s my last week in Palmerston North and things are not winding down gently… there is still an article to finish writing, a seminar to give, several social events to focus on, and an empty suitcase in a chaotic motel room to deal with. It’s hard to believe I’ve been here for almost 4 weeks.
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