Ken Ring's predicted earthquake for 20 March?

**AllanB** · 20th March 2011, 10:44

Although I consider myself a fairly rational person, I took the kids to the warehouse this morning (my son had some EQC $ to spend after some of his toy cars were broken). While there I will admit to keeping them extra close - my 12 year old daughter was not impressed at not being allowed to pop over to 'her' isle on her own!

I also purchased a extra large tarp (on special you understand) and a spare loo seat in case I need to improvise in the future.

Plus I filled the car up on the way home and purchased some extra water.

And MrsB and I have been waking up with headaches for the last few days - I think it may well be the moon pulling our brains against our skulls while we sleep.

**Oakie** · 20th March 2011, 10:45

Originally Posted by scissorhands

The Canterbury quake danger still runs for 4-5 days, but its probability has been lessened by the core movements in Japan

Running for cover already? The Japan event and Christchurch event were probably caused by the same tectonic plate action but what happens in one place does not affect what happens on the other place...not when they are 8000 km apart.

**Oakie** · 20th March 2011, 10:47

Originally Posted by AllanB

And MrsB and I have been waking up with headaches for the last few days - I think it may well be the moon pulling our brains against our skulls while we sleep.

Me too, the last couple of days. (The whiskey may have caused the Friday morning headache though.)

**AllanB** · 20th March 2011, 10:49

Experts on TV in the past week have stated that there is no relationship between the Japan and CHCH shakes.

If you have a bit of time pop on to the Geonet site and pull up some archive NZ quake info - go back to 2009 or something for a few months and you'll find that we have dozens of shakes around the 3 mark as normal activity.

**AllanB** · 20th March 2011, 10:52

Originally Posted by Oakie

Me too, the last couple of days. (The whiskey may have caused the Friday morning headache though.)

Weird.

Tonight I am going to sleep wearing a old helmet wrapped in tinfoil. If I awake tomorrow clear headed I will start writing my own 'moon' book.

**mashman** · 20th March 2011, 13:28

Twizel, wherever that is, took a few 4 pointers today...

**Jantar** · 20th March 2011, 14:08

Originally Posted by mashman

Twizel, wherever that is, took a few 4 pointers today...

Twizel is almost just over the hill from us. Only 90 minutes ride away, including the Lindis Pass, but neither my wife nor I felt anything.

**Maha** · 20th March 2011, 14:37

Originally Posted by Jantar

Twizel is almost just over the hill from us. Only 90 minutes ride away, including the Lindis Pass, but neither my wife nor I felt anything.

I thought a Twizel was a chessy snack?

**FJRider** · 20th March 2011, 15:45

Originally Posted by mashman

Twizel, wherever that is, took a few 4 pointers today...

It's somewhere around ... here ...

http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?f=q&so...3,1.755066&z=9

**Mom** · 20th March 2011, 17:27

Should be rounded up, and shot with a ball of his own shit at dawn!

Usually quite a harmless sort of bloke, to have done what he did at this time is reprehensible, mind you, John Campbell gave him the vehicle...

**mashman** · 20th March 2011, 17:33

he's a witch, burn him

... serves his own right for forcing his way into our homes via radio and TV and scarring the shit out of people... he treats the media like his own emergency warning system

**mashman** · 20th March 2011, 17:35

Originally Posted by FJRider

It's somewhere around ... here ...

http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?f=q&so...3,1.755066&z=9

ahhhhhh, i've been down that road (i tink)... is that's the place with the strikingly blue water and them huge canals?

**FJRider** · 20th March 2011, 17:38

Originally Posted by mashman

ahhhhhh, i've been down that road (i tink)... is that's the place with the strikingly blue water and them huge canals?

That area ... yes ...

**Oakie** · 20th March 2011, 17:39

Originally Posted by mashman

Twizel, wherever that is, took a few 4 pointers today...

Nice place in between Mount Cook, Lake Tekapo and Omarama roughly. I lived there for 15 years and we brought our girls up there.
I used to work for Electricorp (as it was then) and was on their Earthquake Response Team which meant whenever there was a shake I got to inspect one or more of our structures for damage. Being undeneath a power station or control structure following an earthquake and looking for resulting damage concentrates the mind marvellously!

**JMemonic** · 20th March 2011, 17:59

Originally Posted by Jantar

Ken (moon man) Ring predicted another large earthquake to strike Christchurch today, the day that the moon reaches perigee, or the closest point to earth. His reasoning is that the additional gravitational pull will cause the fault to slip again causing another massive earthquake.

Well, perigee occurred at 08:09 this morning, and at 08:57 there was a 3.1 aftershock in Christchurch. Ok so it was only 1/30000 the strength of what could be considered massive. So was he right or not?

3.1, really never felt a thing

Originally Posted by Kickaha

With the amount of earthquakes NZ has I could have predicted that one

Don't forget Jim Berkland has predicted the same for California

edit: I almost forgot, Ken Ring is an scaremongering arsehole and you'd have to be a gullible fuckwit to believe him

I caught that bloke being interviewed on telly going on about you've got to look at the animals etc as well and when one of the quakes happened there was a whale beaching, um how does that factor we have whale beaching here often, and they beached nowhere near Canterbury.

As to the second paragraph the first statement I would agree with, the second well not so much, or at all there is a bit of hysteria around and that affects thinking.

Originally Posted by mashman

Twizel, wherever that is, took a few 4 pointers today...

I know a few who headed that way to escape.