Heard about it on NPR news (Sunday noon EDT) & was going to post a query
whether y'all were doing alright. Good to hear you're hanging in there.
Hope it will go away again without too much heartbreak.
NPR said it was "swarm" - this was either the 5th earthquake in a week
with greater than magnitude 4.0 or that there have been 5 greater than
4.0 before this one. The story said it had broken water mains/sewers &
other "minor" damage, but no reported casualties.
Oh, and the scientists don't know why you're getting a swarm now, which
I took to mean they don't know whether this is a precursor of something
to come or more aftereffects from the last one.
Anyway, it's good to hear that you're safe for now. Stay that way.
On 7/21/2013 1:40 AM, David Mann wrote:
During the past few days there has been a spate of earthquakes just
southwest of our capital city, Wellington. They've been fairly
small, up to mid-5 in magnitude, but they had a 6.5 earlier this
afternoon which might just about be big enough to make the news.
It's been reported in our local news site as a 6.8 but GNS have since
revised it to 6.5.
I haven't heard any reports of damage or casualties but I don't
anticipate much. I actually felt it here but it was very subtle. It
took about 2 minutes to get here :)
I'm hoping they don't get anything much bigger than that but if our
country falls off the face of the earth soon you'll know why.
There's a long history of seismicity in that area with major ones in
1848, 1855, and a couple in 1942.
Cheers, Dave
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