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Post by suthg on Jul 21, 2013 23:22:05 GMT 12
A video presentation on Youtube of the earthquake timing... last 72hrs
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Post by stukiwi on Jul 22, 2013 2:01:21 GMT 12
Didn't feel it at all here in New York. Hope everyone is OK and it did make the news here
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Post by Radialicious on Jul 22, 2013 3:24:57 GMT 12
Don't blame Christchurch - it's not our fault.
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Post by phil82 on Jul 22, 2013 4:16:32 GMT 12
We had one or two shakes today,that we noticed,but the 6.5 at 1700 really rattled our place: enough to throw pictures off the walls,but no damage otherwise.Scared the crap out of me though!
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Post by flyjoe180 on Jul 22, 2013 9:23:16 GMT 12
I lived in Wellington for nearly four years and experienced a few quakes during my time there. I found I did become attuned to the clues of an impending shake, I remember the sounds distinctly, like a big truck coming down the road followed by a rumble and then the shake, followed by eerie silence. During the night I recall waking up before the shakes. I experienced a sharp jolt in the middle of the night in Napier too, that was quite spectacular. But these latest ones are huge compared to anything I ever experienced there, my thoughts are with all you Wellingtonians. Let's hope they settle down soon.
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Post by phil82 on Jul 22, 2013 10:49:17 GMT 12
....and another one just happened 10:47
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jul 22, 2013 12:27:16 GMT 12
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Post by nzompilot on Jul 22, 2013 14:52:20 GMT 12
As a Wellington born, Blenheim raised kid its times like this I am kinda glad I made the move to Brisbane... only have to deal with floods here
Haven't hear from my folks, but my sister seems to be a nervous wreck, and seeing all the updates via twitter and facebook from friends and family is a rather weird experience.
Another weird and annoying experience is trying to get people who have never experienced an earthquake to understand how something like this effects you even when you're 3000km away in a different country
nzompilot
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Post by baronbeeza on Jul 22, 2013 15:25:11 GMT 12
I got side tracked the other day. I was looking at one of the Geonet type websites and came across a recent earthquake, amongst the batch of Saturday ones I think. It stood out as it was recorded as Severe whilst other red bordered quakes were Strong. It's location.. I believe South or East of Reefton. Whether it was mentioned in the NZ media or not I will not know but I think it goes to show just how many earthquakes the country experiences on a daily basis and perhaps many never manage to make the news. I have been hearing stories about the Darwin earthquakes of late last year. It seems they feel the tremors generated by the various Indonesian quakes, a strong 7 plus quake is watered down to about a 2.9 equivalent with the distances involved. www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/indonesia-earthquake-shakes-darwin/story-e6frg6nf-1226534310179Some people reported that they were pretty sure there was a quake as they heard the windows rattle, to others they took the rattling noises to be something else. Having experienced many quakes in my lifetime, and some seriously damaging ones at that, I find it difficult to categorise them. The Inangahua one for example came out of the blue and was preceded by an almighty thundering noise before it hit with a thump, a severe blow followed by shaking and then rolling. I felt one in Invercargill that was just sustained strong rolling. Of all the various ChCh ones you could soon get a feel for the origins and depth, it was relatively easy to compare them. To me the Feb 2011 one started off similar to an aftershock but the intensity just got stronger and stronger. I think Beagle and Don will agree though that the nastiest ones (at least in our location) were the shallow ones that came without warning as they were close and shallow. We got hit on June 20th (2011) at 10.30pm... it was only a 4.3 but man did it thump ! Just a violent wham, like a punch and then the subsequent shaking during the decay. Of all the 10,000 plus shakes there was only the one that knocked over fences and cracked chimneys. What I am saying is that if the quake is close and shallow it is going to hurt. I am talking within 5Km each way here. The worst thing about them is there is such little warning. Given the distances involved with the current Wellington ones I am sure you would be getting a few seconds warning. The problem is that could now change at any time. That is the scary part, fear of the unknown. I can understand there being many nervous people about, especially those expected to work in the CBD.
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Post by delticman on Jul 22, 2013 15:40:25 GMT 12
Ah well, there is the blue ones who can see the sea while the red ones cant.
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Post by ErrolC on Jul 22, 2013 15:57:47 GMT 12
I got side tracked the other day. I was looking at one of the Geonet type websites and came across a recent earthquake, amongst the batch of Saturday ones I think. It stood out as it was recorded as Severe whilst other red bordered quakes were Strong. It's location.. I believe South or East of Reefton. Whether it was mentioned in the NZ media or not I will not know but I think it goes to show just how many earthquakes the country experiences on a daily basis and perhaps many never manage to make the news. ... That Reefton one was probably a false report, due to the multitude of quakes confusing the automated systems. It can take 30 minutes or more for reported quakes to be reveiwed (and possibly deleted). There was a 4.4 north of Hunterville reported yesterday, that was deleted. I've had the Geonet app on my phone for several months (you can set it for 'quiet time' to save your sleep), it is certainly educational. I can't even imagine what it is like to live through repeated aftershocks.
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Jul 22, 2013 19:10:19 GMT 12
I think it was June/July 2011 when we had a series of 18 'aftershocks' in one evening emanating from 'the gap' between the Port Hills and the Greendale fault. At about 10.30 we had a magnitude 5+ that tipped me out of bed. The shaking (only quietly) continued unabated for 25 minutes! I couldn't go back to bed until about 1am. I got no sleep as I lay listening to what sounded like a post-hole rammer thumping deep in the earth followed by sustained 'growling', coming up through my pillow. When I left for work in the morning, talk-back radio was all about the horrific night callers from the same area had endured. The 'quake site' graphics showed the epicentres were all about 200 metres from our house at a depth of about 8 km...
I feel for those in Seddon, Marlborough and Wellington
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Post by baronbeeza on Jul 22, 2013 19:34:21 GMT 12
I think it was June/July 2011 when we had a series of 18 'aftershocks' in one evening emanating from 'the gap' between the Port Hills and the Greendale fault. At about 10.30 we had a magnitude 5+ that tipped me out of bed. The shaking (only quietly) continued unabated for 25 minutes! That sounds like the mongrel that got us. 10.30pm on June 20th. I was tipped out of bed in the Inangahua event in 1968 as it was early morning. Getting under the bed was easy, I was already halfway there. I was awake for this 10.30pm one in Hornby but it hit like no other. No warning whatsoever, it came up from under us and it was just a wham and we had a weightless situation. I used to get a chance to run and grab the tv but not for that one, every thing was already airborne about me. Well at least that is how it seemed. It was just a hard whack and I think all the damage was done in the first few seconds, windows cracking and bricks being ejected. I wouldn't be surprised if that was basically what the people in Seddon experienced but again I am out of the country and not seeing the coverage.
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Post by Gary. on Jul 22, 2013 20:42:43 GMT 12
Kiwithrottlejockey.....after all that chaos....did you catch your flight on time?
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jul 22, 2013 23:38:13 GMT 12
Kiwithrottlejockey.....after all that chaos....did you catch your flight on time? Yep....there were no delays to the Masterton flight. We boarded on time, but then spent ages waiting in the huge queue of aeroplanes lined up to takeoff from Auckland, so ended up getting to Masterton about ten minutes late. I'm in Napier at the moment. No quakes or aftershocks or anything here. I felt a couple of aftershocks in Maserton last night, although they were only minor tremors.
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Post by Gary. on Jul 23, 2013 7:27:14 GMT 12
Thats cool, a traffic jam on the auckland runway........we felt that earthquake even in Taupo, very slow sideways sway for about a minute, no sound, got the lights hanging from the ceiling going with a bit of a sway. Kids thought it was cool.
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Post by ErrolC on Jul 23, 2013 8:12:43 GMT 12
Given that fog at AKL the next morning, just as well you got out then.
Sent via Proboards Android App
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jul 23, 2013 20:18:41 GMT 12
Given that fog at AKL the next morning, just as well you got out then. My flight took off after a Fed Ex DC-10 (or was it a MD-11?). We turned onto the runway and lined up as the Fed Ex aeroplane took off, but then sat there for what seemed like quite a long time before beginning our takeoff roll. I presume that was to allow time for any wake turbulence from the “heavy” to dissipate.
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