You might have noticed Christchurch New Zealand has been devistated for the second time in a year. We are watching it unfold live and as evening comes there are going to be a lot of people needing food and shelter. This earthquake wasn't as big as some but it has destroyed enough inferstructure to be very inconvient
http://www.news.com.au/world/quake-aftershock-hits-christchurch/story-e6frfkyi-1226009960218

I heard about this yesterday. Did not know the epicenter went right through the town . There are some old and historic structures there that were destroyed . My thoughts and prayers go out to the Kiwis.

Appears in the last couple years there have been inordinate earthquake activity on the western edge of the Pacific plate.

Appears in the last couple years there have been inordinate earthquake activity on the western edge of the Pacific plate.

The Pacific plate and the Australian plate are very active unfortunately for New Zealand the subduction runs through the South Island, sort of the same problem as the San Andraes fault. New Zealand also has the unfortunate problem of sitting on a supervolcano, so they get a lot of serious earthquakes

I feel awful for these poor people. It bothers me that celebrities always want people to donate to places like Haiti and Africa so why are they saying nothing about New Zealand? Are white people less worthy? People in New Zealand are not looting each other or using voodoo as an excuse to go around killing people.

There are people here raising money for New Zealand and sending help but perhaps you haven't heard of donor fatigue. The world has become weary of paying for someoneelse's disaster. New Zealand is a rich country, they can help themselves and so the great appeals haven't been made around the world and to be cynical there has been no great death toll to tug at the heart strings. People are more inclined to donate to the dead than the living.

I hope Christchurch survives, already there are stories of 65,000 people who have left for good. Can't blame them one disaster is enough, two is more than enough.

I finally heard a radio ad for
Christchurch relief . I don't think that it's donor fatigue . I think the press for some reason doesn't find it compelling narrative . I don't know why . From what I've seen ,the town was historic and beautiful .

paraclete said "Christchurch New Zealand has been devistated."

You don't know how annoying it is to see otherwise intelligent people make this kind of spelling error.

That's DEVASTATED.

Admins, how about giving this site an automatic spell checker similar to what Yahoo ! Answers has.

paraclete said "Christchurch New Zealand has been devistated."

You don't know how annoying it is to see otherwise intelligent people make this kind of spelling error.

That's DEVASTATED.

Admins, how about giving this site an automatic spell checker similar to what Yahoo ! Answers has.

And who's idea of spelling should we adopt? Personally I'm fed up with spellcheckers that flag differences between English (Oxford) and American English (Websters) and with people who have nothing better to do than nitpick since in case you didn't know some of us have dyslexic fingers and a very different education. I'm surprised you haven't rushed in to correct some other obvious mistakes of recent date used by others here
Manor; manner, sence; since
Whether you like it, or not, I will continue to use "our" "re" "s" and other variants in usage

I wouldn't bother with spell check if that was oferred.

I finally heard a radio ad for
Christchurch relief . I don't think that it's donor fatigue . I think the press for some reason doesn't find it compelling narrative . I don't know why . From what I've seen ,the town was historic and beautiful .

Let's face it Haiti is closer to home and offers better photo ops and isn't that what it is about for the press, the polies and the celebs. You see you can have a disaster in a third world country and everyone's heart bleeds for those poor people, but a disaster in a first world country, well they don't need your help do they?

Fact is I expect they will have to bulldoze Christchurch and it's historic buildings and start again. The pictures that have emerged haven't really shown the extent of damage and if you have a good look at a map they are sitting right next to an old volcano