About 7:42pm here, March 4th.

Another estimated 5.x aftershock just hit a few minutes ago.
The text message just received from my son indicates it wasn't bad enough t=
o
take out the phone systems. That's good.
House OK he says.
Ambulance sirens can be heard.

Something like a war zone but different.
A lot of people have left and many more are planning to.

Without intending to detract in any way whatsoever from the Christchurch
tragedy, I think it's worth noting that for every person killed in
Christchurch to date in the recent quakes, there were between 400 to 1200
deaths* in Haiti in their 2010 quake. Once disasters get above a certain
size they get very hard for the mind to grasp unless intimately involved,
and often not even then.
(*Haiti death toll estimate varies very widely. From perhaps under 100,000
to well over 300,000).
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