The deep seat­ed major earth­quake of mag­ni­tude 7.5 quake that struck the South Island of New Zealand on Mon­day still has peo­ple cut off from road trans­port due to mas­sive slips and damage.

IARU Region 3 Direc­tor, Don Wal­lace ZL2TLL reports that Ama­teur Radio Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Nation­al Direc­tor Jeff Say­er ZL4JS advis­es that AREC offered its ser­vices, but were not need­ed as the civ­il infra­struc­ture was cop­ing well.

AREC served well dur­ing the Christchurch earth­quake of 2011, and the lat­est tremor brought back mem­o­ries to many of that disaster.

Graph­ic pic­tures of roads cut, land­slides, rail track dis­lodged and build­ing dam­aged in the most­ly rur­al area show the effects of the ‘quake, with some seis­mol­o­gists pre­dict­ing it was pos­si­ble to have fur­ther earthquakes.

– Jim Lin­ton VK3PC, IARU Region 3 Chair­man, Dis­as­ter Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Committee.