really bad

If you haven’t yet heard of the earthquake that hit Christchurch today let me enlighten you. At around 12.50pm today (Tuesday) Christchurch was slammed with a 6.3 magnitude earthquake a mere 5km deep. One seriously violent quake.

Technically speaking this was an aftershock from the September earthquake but the shallowness of it meant it was far more violent. People are dead, no doubt about it. Here in Wellington we felt a mild sway – it’s just crazy.

It seems so unreal to have happened again and have happened worse. Ten staff members from our Christchurch office were still stuck in their building when I left work (5pm) due to the staircase collapsing. Everyone in the office was somber faced and racing for a phone. Too many people are still unaccounted for and it’s just awful. Apparently the Army will be sent in to help but it’s going to take so much more than that. We hadn’t even got over the devastation of the last one.

I guess they do say things come in three. Hell I hope so. After the first earthquake then the mine collapsing this was just unthinkable.

My heart goes out to all those affected by it and I hope we’ll soon know how we can help. It’s just trying to know what to do first? Send food parcels? Water? Or offer to billet people if they need it.. so many will need it! It’s awful been stuck here watching all the images on TV and not being able to do anything.

Please send all your thoughts and prayers to Christchurch, they need every single one.

UPDATE: 65 deaths confirmed so far.

UPDATE: All our staff members were successfully rescued from the Forsyth Barr House and are okay.