Hope Mr. Jim.Cox is okay. Sounds like a big one...
All good here, thankfully.
Roger Walker ( aka Squose ) is in town - wonder what he made of it.
It was a BIG one - nearly 2 minutes of shaking.
Distant epicentre made for a smoother, more rolling feel.
Glad, yet again, to have a wooden house with corrugated metal roof - yay for "flexy"
Very happy to hear you report, Jim.
I spent a whole day earlier this year walking around Christchurch, and they had a nice museum about the last big one. Very interesting place, amazing how they recovered. Hope this one isn't too bad.
When I was much younger (mid 1960's) I was in a very strong earthquake in Chile. The main shock was in the daytime, we were in the country at a friend's house for a cook-out. Took a long time to get home, roads were all torn up and bridges were out. That night, I was injured in an aftershock (fell out of bed and hit the metal side rail of the bed, we lived on the 12th floor of a building) and had to get stitches in my upper lip. I was in a few more in Chile over the years, but none as large as that one, which if I remember was in the 7 or 8 range. Very scary natural phenomena. When we got home that day the ceiling was all over the floor and there was a tarantula among the ceiling debris.
The tarantula is what I would call 'icing on the cake'.
Somewhere in the thousands of slides my dad took when we lived there (2 1/2 years) I have a picture of that. I need to convert them to digital
Them folks in Oklahoma done got WAY too deep with their fracking this time. 🙂
Hope everyone is ok.
James
Imagine what would happen if we got a series of earthquakes going around the Ring of Fire all at the same time. Perhaps the results would produce increasing harmonic motion something like the bridge in Washington years ago.
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Have some ex in-laws/good friends nearby in Nelson. They're ok but sounds like they're getting a little threadbare of all the seismic activity lately (they have two small kids).
25 years ago in college I had a geology prof who was obsessed with how overdue the pacific rim was for seismic upheaval.
Holy Cow, post: 399462, member: 50 wrote: Imagine what would happen if we got a series of earthquakes going around the Ring of Fire all at the same time. Perhaps the results would produce increasing harmonic motion something like the bridge in Washington years ago.
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Oscillatory (or rhythmic) catastrophic tectonic plate movement has actually been theorized and studied in the past. Even though there is evidence this may have occurred a few million years ago when volcanic activity was frequent, most experts feel the chances are non-existent...Much like the outcome of the recent election...
The quake was a bit north of Christchurch
State Highway One - the main link to Picton and the North Island has taken a hammering
Cows stranded after quake
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Saw that on the news, do you know if they were rescued?
Update - Just heard on GMA they have been rescued.
jim.cox, post: 399437, member: 93 wrote: All good here, thankfully.
Roger Walker ( aka Squose ) is in town - wonder what he made of it.
It was a BIG one - nearly 2 minutes of shaking.
Distant epicentre made for a smoother, more rolling feel.
Glad, yet again, to have a wooden house with corrugated metal roof - yay for "flexy"
My 1st quake so nothing to compare it to. I jumped out of the campervan in a hurry. Thought someone was rocking it for a laugh. We evacuated away from the coast as a precaution. The campsite I stay at has the ocean on one side and the estuary on the other. I was well looked after by the community and it's business as normal in Christchurch. Makes you think of how it could be though. Poor buggers up north with little water, power, food etc
