Canterbury Earthquake – first flyover of fault trace
Posted by James on January 25, 2012 · 49 Comments
GNS Scientists make an initial aerial assessment of the fault trace southwest of Christchurch
Chilean students have taken over schools and city streets in the largest protests the country has seen in decades. These actions are causing a political crisis for the country’s billionaire President, Sebastian Piñera. The students are demanding free education, and an end to the privatization of their schools and universities. The free-market based approach to education was implemented by the military dictator Augusto Pinochet in his last days in power. As the demonstrations in Chile coincide with protests erupting globally, Fault Lines follows the Chilean student movement during their fight in a country that is among the most unequal in the world. This episode of Fault Lines first aired on Al Jazeera English on January 2, 2012 at 2230 GMT. english.aljazeera.net Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com Follow us on Tumblr: ajfaultlines.tumblr.com See all episodes of Fault Lines www.youtube.com Meet the Fault Lines staff: www.youtube.com
@jarrethcutestory or on top of? it hahah
I’ve always thought how weird it would be to have a fault go through a familiar landscape, like your own property, and see? a road or line of trees get shifted so dramatically, the way these views show.
well guess what it buried people this time. In concrete buildings – duh. The building codes suck in NZ. build wooden /stucco structures as they do in California. But then why bother -? I aint going back.
Whoa? .
I live about? 400 km from this and it was intense that far away. Imagine if you were standing right next to that
Can’t believe? anpther earthquake has hit canterbury
@solleksify….research HAARP.? Peace>
These fracture patterns remind me of our analogue experiments. I “video replied”? an example.
I guarantee your rates will go up…?
Those pictures will find their way? in the Earthquake Geology textbooks!
Holy jengas. I wonder why I didnt see this on the? news… Most likely I just missed it,
@edineujunior It is an area where the earth on both sides is moving in different directions causing pressure build? up under the earth resulting in a sudden release of pressure,
@samuraighetto Not 100% true.? Can’t say anything more but yeah.. plus lots of dogs and animals died, and the woman who had a heart attack. yes, it wasn’t because of things falling on her, but she died.
Just have to love the helicopter effects.. so? smooth! Great aerials!
@samuraighetto but on? the day………..watch?v=bEPfzWd9V98
When the quake hit, everybody was at home in bed. We New Zealanders live in American-style houses framed with 2x4s. That’s the best sort of place to be in an earthquake. The wood flexes in a nice way. Even if the wood breaks, your house does not bury you with rubble. Most? of the buildings that collapsed were heritage stuff built before WWI, when nobody had a clue about earthquakes, and empty in the wee hours.
what a cheap video, its clearly just panning across photos with helicopter noise? added to the audio, very disappointing. Thought it would be actual continuous video footage from one end of the fault to the other. Save your time and just look at the high-res photos from geonet
where NOT to build a house? from today onwards…………..Lucky spotted now than in a hundred years time
Crazy stuff?
@jo951000 we had? 0 human casualties on a 7.1 earthquake
oh? my god!
awesome vid!? thanks!
@Thekiwifish unlikely because the damage will? be too great.
That footage is amazing, well done guys for your filming……..Hope? all persons affected by it, don’t loose to much………..
What is a fault line? ?
7:21 Pablo Longueira (ex-congress man from UDI, the most ultra right political un Chile) is Minister of Economy and Tourism. He studied in the University of Chile, when Pinochet destroyed the state in 11th September in? 1973. Longueira was student in the University and the army destroy the FECH (“Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Chile”, Student Federation of Universty of Chile) and put Longueira in the FECH, no FECH elections, no rights no peace.
Support? from Canada.
Thanks Aljazeera!?
I SUPPORT AND? IM NOT FROM CHILE! FREE EDUCATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!
grettings from switzerland?
i went to chile one time and i fell in love with the country..chilean girls are so exotic plz pinera dont let them cry you bloody bastard! in the future maybe i move to chile and leave the sinking ship europe. keep fighting my chilean frienss let your voice be heard! the capitalism is falling. i belive? in chile because i saw how modern country chile is i belive in the chilean people they work hard.chilan girls are hoot! bye bye europe here i come. grettings from s
Ricardo? Lagos, EXITOOOO
This has not? ended, we are just on vacations.
Si quieren ver el documental con subtítulos? busquen “Chile se levanta al jazeera”
@pbravovega yo pense lo mismo.. debe ser un señor muy de derecha, como para deicr relativamente rico!!!! es el? mas rico de chile (5)
@ffuentese se supone que ese? es el reportaje, pero al parecer youtube lo redirecciona
You can see my super? gringo ass walk by at 6:05.
@JohnKarmy I know that some schools have? been damaged by students during tomas but I think that’s not the point of the reportage to show every event happened during this crisis.
@ffuentese I didn’t mean “Poor Students” economically, but as for “Students who are the Victims here”. All that is being shown in the video is true, but it’s not all. I’ve seen how students literally annihilate some public schools as a way of protesting against everything. Is that school going to be rebuilt with a miracle? Or is it? going to be rebuilt with the money the Gov. could be using to improve the shitty educational system?
Resistencia-solidaridad-victoria
Grecia es? con usted
@JohnKarmy what are you talking about? The reportage is showing problems in the public education so it’s pointless to show a private school classroom. There are interviews to government authorities, scholars and a member of the Pinochet government.
I couldn’t blame? Al Jazeera of being biased.
@anyilara1 no funciona el enlace ?
@claufav I couldn’t agree more with you. Now is the time! That’s the way politicians should work as well, collaborating together. I’m not defending one side more than the other, but? it bugs me when they show only one part of the story.
I agree with the students, but this video shows only the “Poor Students” part.
C’mon! Schools in pristine conditions? That looks well in the video, cause I’ve been around many schools that are completely destroyed by the students. Is that the way to go?
@fourkero1 If Piñera isn’t rich,? what the fuck we’re.
@JohnKarmy If you keep thinking with that logic, we’d never get some change. It’s true, Concertacion didn’t do enough or anything for make a deeply change in or system, but now is time for make it… don’t you think that? Of? course, there’s a constant construction. Free education isn’t a suddenly fact.
I think the video is a great representation of the current educational situation here in Chile. We need our free public education to be boosted up.
However, I think the video only shows the right-now phenomenon. Let’s face it, la Concertación has done shit in the past 20 years regarding this very issue, cause this IS NOT A NEW PROBLEM. Come on, so Piñera gets elected, and suddenly we have free-education problems??
Give me? a break!
This is a great video but I think that a lot of bad attention was given to the carabineros. There is police brutality but not like depicted in the video. Piñera and the government are? the real bad guys.
youtube.com/watch?v=ZMt9iQqaewU ese? es el reportaje, pero con subtitulos.
. mi opinion.. me parece excelente que medios extranjeros saquen a la palestra los acontecimientos injustos e? indignos que acontecen a nuestro país!