Big BOOM in Wellington? (Thursday 1 March)

**Steam** · 2nd March 2007, 14:52

It just happened again! Boom! 3.50pm! Am I mad?

**0arbreaka** · 2nd March 2007, 14:53

yes you are, very.

**crazybigal** · 2nd March 2007, 16:04

its blasting at the horikiwi quarry

**Hitcher** · 2nd March 2007, 17:07

Originally Posted by Steam

It just happened again! Boom! 3.50pm! Am I mad?

Have you recently changed your medication? Of have you been riding WMC's Buell Ulysses demonstrator?

**Toaster** · 2nd March 2007, 17:15

Maybe the aussies are invading... we have no defences, they need water and some decent rugby players....

**Hitcher** · 2nd March 2007, 17:39

And cricketers, more worryingly.

**Timber020** · 2nd March 2007, 20:23

One lot of booms were a gun salute to the finnish president, or something along those lines.

**Shadows** · 2nd March 2007, 23:47

Originally Posted by crazybigal

its blasting at the horikiwi quarry

Yep, some of the quarry blasts at Horokiwi are even registering as earthquakes, one today was measured at magnitude 2 in South Karori.

http://www.geonet.org.nz/2703805g.html

**Steam** · 3rd March 2007, 07:28

Originally Posted by Shadmeister

Yep, some of the quarry blasts at Horokiwi are even registering as earthquakes, one today was measured at magnitude 2 in South Karori.

http://www.geonet.org.nz/2703805g.html

Oh yip, the time fits. That's AMAZING! SO loud yet so far away. And felt in Wellington!

**Steam** · 3rd March 2007, 20:51

Aha! I'm not crazy! My brother heard it too today, so did the neigbours, and it showed up on the seismic drums in Karori. http://www.geonet.org.nz/snzo-drum.html
It's the blasting in Horokiwi. It was on the radio news too, people calling the police about possible explosions.