Earthquake damage to road North side of Dee Hill, 3 Channel Flat Area. Inwood Farm, 1968.

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DescriptionEarthquake damage to road North side of Dee Hill, 3 Channel Flat Area. Inwood Farm, 1968.Date of Photo1968Map^[1]ContributorSteffan & Nigel McKay

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Location (city or town)West CoastThree Channel FlatEventInangahua Earthquake

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CommentsElizabeth Ann Beech
Inanghua?

Leslie McKendry
Elizabeth Ann Beech Yes, Dee Hill, 3 Channel Flat Area. Inwood Farm, is in the Inangahua area. This was damage from the Inangahua Earthquake, May 28 1968.

Elizabeth Ann Beech
Leslie McKendry thank you.

Brian McIntyre
Never seen that photo before Heather Newby

Heather Newby
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Brian McIntyre sure is major damage!

Brian McIntyre
Heather Newby still subsidence there today

Nikki Tamatea
What a lot ,to clean up After the earthquake

Lorraine Anderson
I remember, in the hours prior to the Inanghua quake, the animals were distressed and calling out.... I remember the shake.... simply terrifying

Heather Newby
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Lorraine Anderson yes.. and apparently there were sounds in the hills too..in the days leading up to the earthquake.

Lorraine Anderson
Heather Newby Yes. Now that you mention it, I recall that & a feeling of impending....unknown

Arthur Dehn
Wow it sure must have changed the landscape , frightening ?

Dorothy Wills
That’s a dramatic rise in the road I wouldn’t have wanted to be travelling there. But as it was 5-30 about in the morning most of us were still in bed the noise was horrendous

Karl Barkley
That's a fare Drop ???

Karl Barkley
I'm 63yr I was Born in Rangiora I can remember the Horse's next to our house Running around Paddock making a hex of a Noise along with Dog's Barking & Bird's all Chirping away Full Noise ! Then they All Shut up ? It was so Airy DEAD Quite then This Loud Noise coming from Oxford Direction ??? Then it Hit I was outside The Ground was Shaking and I watched as Our Brick Chimney Crumbled It was Impress What Earth Quake would that have been 1960's 70's
More recently I was up at PIKE River Gates the Night of The Kaikoura Earth Quake that was Impressive The BEST I've ever Experienced !

Brian McIntyre
Karl Barkley 1968 was Inangahua earthquake

Stuart McMillan
Huge amount of ground movement

Noeline McCaughan
About 13 feet in vertical lift.

Ian Schroder
When did Inwoods have the farm at dee creek

Roger O'Regan
Ian Schroder
I wondered that too Ian. Was it the van Vugts who had that block?

Ian Schroder
I thought Derek Fenwick went up that way i remember Bradleys in the area and Lou Woolf onthree channel flatThelma Coutts
My nephew from Ch. Ch. took my parents up to Inangahua from Dobson to view the aftermath of the earthquake. They sent me a photograph of the damage.
Denis-Pat Pilkington
I remember this, felt strongly in Christchurch!
Ric Fisher
I remember this as my bed was on rollers and it rolled around the room
Sue Coghlan
I lived at Inangahua and was in this earthquake. Heard the roar from the hills before the earth moved violently. Mum, Nancy Stuart yelling at us 10 children, another came later , to stay in our beds, had to hang on as were being thrown all over the place. When it settled enough we were all taken into a very wrecked lounge and sat on the floor whilst a head count was done (several times) It was still dark so we were waiting for first light when a noise came from a bedroom, it was my brother Brent Stuart, he was still asleep in his bed. Poor mum was horrified that her count was wrong. Would have been a very stressful time with so many children 12 and under.
Heather Newby

It was a violent shaking in Greymouth too.That same day we all went to school. I remember at Grey High.. there were lots of aftershocks and I remember the glass windows vibrating and shaking,Every chimney on Greymouth came down.

Rob Absalom
If I remember correctly, it lasted 12 seconds. It felt like a lifetime.

Lorraine Anderson
Rob Absalom yes....12 seconds.... felt like the longest time.....

Caroline Crann
I remember the animals to... very eerie. And barefeet and broken glass everywhere in the kitchen from shattered preserves from the top cupboard and hot embers spilling out of the coal range that had been banked up overnight...

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Earthquake damage to road North side of Dee Hill, 3 Channel Flat Area. Inwood Farm, 1968.

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