Seismic activity?

[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:Me]

Thought I felt a nudge about 15mins ago

[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...kes%20detected

[007XX]

Thought I felt a nudge about 15mins ago

Oh sorry mate...I keep on forgetting to take my strap on off... 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

[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

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.

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.