CHCH Earthquake Again Impact

My mind today is about the impact about "Home Match".

Of course this weekend is a famous "Home Match" for the all blacks against Ireland when they playing the test in Christchurch for first time since the stadium broken by the big earthquake.

Anyone who waching the SXV will understand already that Crusaders make a big emotional power from this motivation and almost taking the title despite always play away from home last year.

So NZ and all blacks will demand more so the win this week to honouring the people than normal.

But my riddle is how much this emotion affect the match officials? Is some natural empathy about the situation leading to make accidental biased to New Zealand because is some kindly mind about the suffer? and wanting the fairy tale end on the rugby field at least?

I mean,.....seriously??

Ireland are already quaking irrespectively

We don't need the refs help to win games

Christchurch had a 4.2 shake on maonday night, the Irish team were still in Auckland.

The Canterbury boys acted like it was a gentle sea breeze but the others were diving for the doorways. Not all of us can be staunch hard men.

kiakahaaotearoa wrote:The Canterbury boys acted like it was a gentle sea breeze but the others were diving for the doorways. Not all of us can be staunch hard men.

Funny that, ChCh must be the new Wellington! I remember the endless earthquake drills at school and the nonchalant attitude towards any quake under 4.5....

No we always had quakes as well as the drills. Southern men are simply tougher than those latte boys up north.

You might be tougher but I've seen Southern men succumb all too easily in a 'gentle' Wellington southerly in the middle of winter...

chewed_mintie wrote:

kiakahaaotearoa wrote:The Canterbury boys acted like it was a gentle sea breeze but the others were diving for the doorways. Not all of us can be staunch hard men.

Funny that, ChCh must be the new Wellington! I remember the endless earthquake drills at school and the nonchalant attitude towards any quake under 4.5....

Blenheim was similar - up until the 1854 quake raised the land a couple of metres ships used to sail up the Opawa, so there's been a pretty long-term awareness.

For those not from the shaky isles here's my quick rule-of-thumb guide to earthquake strength

(the shaking on the Richter increases 10-fold for every increase of 1. So a 5.0 is 10 times more shaky than a 4.0)
2.0 - A prop forward sits down at your table
3.0 - a big truck drives past your house at 50m/h
4.0 - lampshades sway, lightweight items fall off shelves
5.0 - if you're lying in bed the bed bounces like you're in Poltergeist. The last one of those I was in, the fridge "walked" 5 feet out from the wall - which saved my friend an injury, she walked into it in the dark and therefore didn't step on the kitchen knives that had fallen on the floor. You may have trouble standing
6.0 - if you're not holding on to something you get knocked over. Walls may be swaying up to a metre.
7.0 - I really really wouldn't want to be in a high-rise building
etc
Structural property damage tends to start happening between a 5 and a 6.

chewed_mintie wrote:You might be tougher but I've seen Southern men succumb all too easily in a 'gentle' Wellington southerly in the middle of winter...

That's because being at Athletic Park in a Southerly felt like a 5.0 shake

Kiwireddevil wrote:

chewed_mintie wrote:You might be tougher but I've seen Southern men succumb all too easily in a 'gentle' Wellington southerly in the middle of winter...

That's because being at Athletic Park in a Southerly felt like a 5.0 shake

I remember going to see the Jubilee cup final there in 96 (I think), and there would have only been 2,000 max in the ground so me and my mates took the liberty of sitting in the Millard Stand with absolutely no one else around. It wasn't that windy but it shook a lot more with no one in it than when it was full!

Ive never lived south of the Bombay Hills, never been in an earhquake either.