I know we're always telling you to make sure you're ready for the next big one,
but I bet a few of you wish you knew what our own earth scientist here at GNS are doing.
So few of them decided to show us.
Hi, I'm Terry Webb.
I'm Hannah Brackley.
My name's Julian Thomson, I work at GNS Science.
Welcome to Kalvin's house.
I'm Martin Rainers.
Hi my name's Graham Lenon from GNS Science.
We store our emergency food in a couple of different places.
We've also got a spare cupboard full of tins and emergency food under here.
We always have a lot of supplies in the pantry,
and then we have some extra downstairs in a shed in case we cannot access the pantry.
We've got our boxes of civil defense supplies which are things like
cookers, radios, torches, batteries, toilet paper and other practical bits and pieces.
We've got torches by our beds.
I have the beginnings of an emergency kit here in my storage cupboard,
in the strongest part of the building, somewhere that I should be able to access easily enough.
In my emergency kit i have some black plastic bags,
a lantern, a rain poncho, a wind up radio torch,
torches, I've got a container of water.
yes this is one although water supplies that we have we have one here out in the
shade
and we have another one and another ship then slips when you're inviting a house
across
you often have to redo the plumbing and we put a whole new hot water system
and behind this wall gotta 3
100 leader tank at all straight back for earthquakes
but one thing which was very easy to do when Republican
was actually a little tap which
trying to the bottom of the tank if we lose the mine supply during an
earthquake
sorry during an earthquake or just answering those little cabinet
we have three hundred leaders freshwater
very simple thing calls for a little to do
but if you gonna be renovating us a system anyway
very worthwhile suffered at this same this tank which has got a thousand liter
capacity
and on a wooden stand so we can put a bucket or contained in a cyclic the
water
and what is coming off the roof and i cant diverted to go straight down the
drain if the tank is full and I don't need to keep flushing water through the
system
these
so when you look around the house we don't have a lot of showing up I
must restore it is relatively low something's got full of
an earthquake in when we do have something fixed to the wall I we've
fix a quite securely so the Stevies on a bracket the tactical latch on the back
so you can get off the wall without reaching behind in
and I'm clipping a little edge to me renovated the house
we kept the the the tumor sacking from 110 year old house
on the walls to give it extra bracing and then we also put
13 millimeter job on top with everything throughout the house when we re
rigid which is the good job which is got morbid moreover she reading
so that's a it stronger and as you can see it leaves
quite wide war so which he had to make the jam that little bit extra
with because it affects the wall when we put the store
though in under here engineering L bracket
that ball to bear onto the front foundation wall
so that they've got a a strong positive connection that will want separate from
the house
so when we got the the deck even we made sure
the piles were down a few hundred militants to have some shoestring not
just being load-bearing
which is important for earthquakes and the tip I'll is attached to the Bears
with a pair were dog's leash collar to give it again
shear strength an earthquake so that the the deck in this case but the same is
true for house
account sure way from the piles so I love the first thing we did was get rid
of the Chinese the way hangover
now they're here though ready to come down so
that was the first thing we did what are the other things as those houses
really quite solid but it has thus very long sun room at the front
which is just on parts and when we
time only ornamentation you see there
on the parts that actually fallen down we put it all back because that actually
gives a lot more strength
to the sunroom which moves independent leave the house in an earthquake
so during the last earthquake that actually stood up pretty well
and I was very pleased that just putting their dicks rise to get help
yeah his the price just on the dick all all the new decks we put on have pricing
which
which is the very useful thing to have elbowing was
boats and they met 19 Sep States and it's paying rations by Wellington City
Council
is 69 San up they currently building standard
sigh well above their requirements and chainsaw
it quite string so when we come here and talk about time the receiver Schmidt
team house around and it some extra cost but not an enormous extra cost we could
take for Cali
because we're already doing a lot with the wall lungs wasn't too hmm
now to print up for current but Mike strong enough to support
on pain across here and now the one running Downey
and over the and you can see with at least
arraignment all minutes to go but not the house enough strength
the swine these
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