Re: OT it's getting rumbly again
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/strong-magnitude-69-earthquake-strikes-off-new-zealand-coast-rattling-capital-wellington/2013/07/21/61b9a1a2-f1ca-11e2-b2e0-0ecd9d3227c0_story.html It made the news. On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 1:40 AM, David Mann dmann...@gmail.com 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT it's getting rumbly again
Stay safe, Dave! Cheers, Christine On Jul 21, 2013, at 12:40 AM, David Mann dmann...@gmail.com 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT it's getting rumbly again
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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT it's getting rumbly again
On Jul 22, 2013, at 5:19 AM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: 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. We'll wait and see I suppose. A lot of frayed nerves up there by the sound of it. I certainly wouldn't be sleeping! 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. That's a pretty good summary. They've shut down the rail network to check it and have closed a couple of streets due to minor building damage (broken glass etc). I think it'll be mostly back to normal tomorrow after everything's been checked out. 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. They tend to be careful in what they say but yes they can never really make predictions on any individual event. One thing they mentioned is that there are a lot of active faults in that area so it's possible that this could trigger another one of those. The latest is that they've given a 10% chance of another 6+ in the next 24 hours. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
