Preparing for an Alpine Fault earthquake

[@Froggability]

Roads closed for 6 months? That all? Remember Kaikoura SH1 was closed a full year basically

[@gordonstiles9874]

Excellent presentation but there seems to be a lot of complacency at local and national government levels. How do we cope with injury in the first 12 to 24 hours? How do we locate them, transport them, provide, process them and finally transport them to specialist care for not only the locals but tourists? Food, fuel, communication, shelter? It does rain fairly often. A huge list once we begin to think about the consequences. Thanks for upsetting us and making us think about such an event.

[@Rob-ik7jy]

Unfortunately that's exactly the problem. We KNOW it's going to happen, people and scientists have proposed plans to help deal with such events. However the government will never commit to such costly plans until its too late. Look at the mining incident here. It was easier for them to just do nothing and say "we did all we could but hey, you know, politics". Within the first 72 to 100 hours after the event local and national relief services will be beyond useless. It's going to be locally where people are helped, it will be makeshift and ill prepared. If you are as concerned as I am about these things there are a couple of things you can do to help you and your family, it's basic but you are the medic and the first line of defense for your family. As you probably know you should take a course in field first aid, stock tinned and dried foods, water or water purification kit, best to have both as a small 5 - 6 magnitude could disrupt for days, a 7 - 9.9 could put our little country on its knees weeks or most likely months. It will be up to us to start with, as scary as that sounds its the most likely scenario. Good luck for us in the future, we're going to need it.

[@jackpeterkettley]

@@Rob-ik7jy The best thing is education and making sure at a national level that there is a planned response to all most probable scenarios, and it is worth thinking how such events will play out, which road are most likely to be effected, where are small communities that might become trapped located etc, we do have funding going into civil emergency response, it is most profitable and productive to not have your shit destroyed by an earthquake, so in the planning for infrastructure, those that do plan for it WILL be better off

[@allgood6760]

First Aid should be :taught in schools and the work place👍🇳🇿

[@graemechunn7816]

Someone needs to be looking into the Use of airships. Canada use them to get to places where there are no roads. And we will have no roads. They can carry large amounts of freight,land virtually anywhere and stay airborne for long periods of time. They could be converted to medical use etc.