Seismic activity?

[Big Dave]

How would you locals describe the level of seismic activity lately?

[Mental Trousers]

There's been seismic activity??

[Usarka]

Rangitoto has just erupted.....

[MSTRS]

Napier had a big shake a while back. No, before the Gizzy one...

[Ixion]

There was a big one in Wellingtona few years back, lifted up the foreshore.

'S been a wee bit shakey in the last few months I guess.

it'll either subside or there'll be a BIG bang. 'S nothing to worry about.

[Stirts]

Rangitoto has just erupted.....

No....I just farted :Oops:

[ManDownUnder]

You eating chilli again Dave?

Or did the earth move for someone this morning... ???

[Hitcher]

How would you locals describe the level of seismic activity lately?

Tremulous?

[ManDownUnder]

Tremulous?

"1 Across 10 characters answering the question..."

[oldrider]

How would you locals describe the level of seismic activity lately?

Round about average, nothing exceptional. John.

[Big Dave]

Earthquake measuring 4.3 hits Matata

An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale has shaken Matata this morning.

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What - me worry?


Just seems to have been quite a few lately - wondered if normal/abnormal.

[007XX]

I felt a reasonnable shake about 10 months or so ago, living in Glenfield. I don't think it was that big a tremor, but the house we used to live in at the time was made entirely of wood, so we felt it nicely!

Otherwise, pretty calm..

What are the stats like Big Dave?

[bugjuice]

How would you locals describe the level of seismic activity lately?
earth shattering

[tri boy]

" Ramping up for the Big One":calm:

[Big Dave]

earth shattering

C+

Seismic: of or relating to earthquakes or other vibrations of the earth and its crust.

Cataclysmic - relating to or denoting a violent natural event.

[Big Dave]

What are the stats like Big Dave?


.......shakey.

I dunno - i was askin' yoo

[bugjuice]

C+

Seismic: of or relating to earthquakes or other vibrations of the earth and its crust.

Cataclysmic - relating to or denoting a violent natural event.
you asked for a description, not a definition

[Ixion]

Earthquake measuring 4.3 hits Matata

An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale has shaken Matata this morning.

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What - me worry?


Just seems to have been quite a few lately - wondered if normal/abnormal.

We ain't called the Shakey Isles for nuffink.

[DMNTD]

Thought I felt a nudge about 15mins ago :confused:

[007XX]

.......shakey.

I dunno - i was askin' yoo

Ok, well on such short notice...bottom of the page:


http://www.arc.govt.nz/council/civil-defence-emergency-management/research-&-monitoring/seismic-monitoring-network.cfm#Earthquakes%20detected

[007XX]

Thought I felt a nudge about 15mins ago :confused:

Oh sorry mate...I keep on forgetting to take my strap on off...:o My bad!

[vifferman]

I think perhaps Big the Dave was saying, "Umm... err... I come from the Convict Colony, y'see, and it's like toldlessly old, and solid, and doesn't tremble like this relatively young shaky pudding perched atop plate boundaries, subduction zones, and like that there. I just want reassurance that the whole place isn't about to blow up, slide into the sea, or something equally non-boring."

Or he might've just been making idle conversation.

[xwhatsit]

What - me worry?

Oblig. HTFU :innocent:

[Ixion]

,, I just want reassurance that the whole place isn't about to blow up, slide into the sea, or something equally non-boring."

,,.

Yeah, well there is always that possibility. Cool, eh

[Big Dave]

I think perhaps Big the Dave was saying, "Umm... err... I come from the Convict Colony, y'see, and it's like toldlessly old, and solid, and doesn't tremble like this relatively young shaky pudding perched atop plate boundaries, subduction zones, and like that there. I just want reassurance that the whole place isn't about to blow up, slide into the sea, or something equally non-boring."

Or he might've just been making idle conversation.

Bit of both

[Sully60]

What's all this about earthquakes?

Does that mean I don't have Parkinsons after all?

Where's that fuggin GP!

[Big Dave]

Oblig. HTFU :innocent:

You cannot 'get' harder-case than Alfred E Neuman.

[Ixion]

Yes you can. Alfred E Neuman's grandfather.

[Big Dave]

I'll bite - who was AEN's grandfather then?

[vifferman]

Yeah, well there is always that possibility. Cool, eh
No, more like hot! Ouch!

D'Auckland's relatively safe, despite the presence of many small, relatively recently somnolent volcanoes scattered around. They're relatively wimpy.
However, if we get a real eruption - like Taupo, Rotorua or Mangakino - then there's no point in worrying. Not only we we all be fairly conclusively fucked, but the world won't need to worry about human influences on global warming any more. A few tonnes of fine, sparkly particulates in the upper atmosphere will help to cool things down a bit. :niceone:

Picture this: an explosion the size of a few a-bombs, with a basal surge (shock wave) blasting outwards at a few hundred km/h. A huge column of semi-molten rock particles, and steam, 10km high, which then falls back down again, and travels outwards in a superheated wave of ash, traveling so fast it leaps over lesser mountain ranges, as it travels at 130 km/h or more, for a distance of 120 km from source. And then days and days of pumice and ash raining down over most of the countryside.
Goodbye NooZilund.

[Virago]

How would you locals describe the level of seismic activity lately?

Didn't feel a thing.




Oops, sorry - did you say locals? I thought you said yokels...

[Big Dave]

Didn't feel a thing.




Oops, sorry - did you say locals? I thought you said yokels...

I would have typed slower.

I've lived in the outback mate - you're all locals here.

[avgas]

purple........................code purple even

[Ralph]

Earthquake measuring 4.3 hits Matata

An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale has shaken Matata this morning.

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What - me worry?


Just seems to have been quite a few lately - wondered if normal/abnormal.


Not much to alarmed about yesterday at Matata there was one for 3.2

Pretty common there at least one week.

Murchison 2.7 today also.

Find them at www.geonet.org.nz

[yod]

4.3's just a tiddler, no worries

> 6 = fun
> 7 = undy changing time
> 8 = fuckin pwned

edit: btw - its an exponential scale so you get the idea....


or, as stated above, a volcanic event of the ultra-plinian variety and you may as well grab your ankles and get ready for the pineapple

[Mully]

How would you locals describe the level of seismic activity lately?

Seismiriffic.
Seistacular
Seistastic

OK, I'll stop now

[MVnut]

How would you locals describe the level of seismic activity lately?

You weren't at my place when I mentioned Sharapova this morning were you Big Dave ??:argue:

[Pumba]

" Ramping up for the Big One":calm:

Quite the opposite if my uderstanding is correct (an interesting concept I know but just stick with me).

The more smaller shakes we have more often means that the plates are releasing pressure slowly at a constant rate.

If we were to go a significant number of years without a shake in an area that is prone to shakes there is a greater chance of there being one BIG shake.

Of course I dont think this teory works for somewhere like Auckland cause it isint on the major Fault Line. Frequent decent sized shakes here generly mean somthing is brewing and getting ready too go bang.

[Swoop]

BD. I have been told that Auckland has about 50 "quakes" per day. Not felt since they are small and deep.

Have been here a few years and I have only ever felt the one that happened off of Orewa a year or so ago.

We do have quite a few volcano's around the area though...



..but the house we used to live in at the time was made entirely of wood...
Surely there would have been some metal nails in there somewhere?:scratch:

[007XX]

Surely there would have been some metal nails in there somewhere?:scratch:

Oh look!!! A nit picker...:laugh:

[yod]

We do have quite a few volcano's around the area though...



63 apparently

[Ixion]

BD. I have been told that Auckland has about 50 "quakes" per day. Not felt since they are small and deep.

Have been here a few years and I have only ever felt the one that happened off of Orewa a year or so ago.

We do have quite a few volcano's around the area though...



Surely there would have been some metal nails in there somewhere?:scratch:

Not necessarily. Maybe not n NZ, but in UK there would be houses built the old way with tenon joints and wooden pegs.

[Swoop]

Not necessarily. Maybe not n NZ, but in UK there would be houses built the old way with tenon joints and wooden pegs.
Agreed. In our library we have a book on Japanese joinery.
Absolutely stunning work (from a woodworking-perverts point of view) and hardly a piece of metal in sight.
Remarkable how their traditional buildings have stood through hundreds of years of earthquakes and yet the modern buildings seem to get tired and lay down for a rest.

[Steam]

How would you locals describe the level of seismic activity lately?

Are you hinting at the coming of the End Times, as indicated by the increase in the occurence of disasters?

Because the stats (as mentioned in Skeptical Inquirer magazine) show there's been no increase, just more media attention to disasters that have always happened.

[Street Gerbil]

My neighbor's wife must have backed her van into the wall... Again...

[Big Dave]

You weren't at my place when I mentioned Sharapova this morning were you Big Dave ??:argue:

now that's an epicentre.

[marty]

I think Taupo erupted 300 cubic kilometers in 25000BC. The sky colour was recorded in ancient China.

I read the other day that the Tarawera eruption in 1886 was HEARD in Wanganui!

[Big Dave]

I think Taupo erupted 300 cubic kilometers in 25000BC. The sky colour was recorded in ancient China.


That long ago - they probably used 8 track.