Ken Ring's predicted earthquake for 20 March?

**mashman** · 20th March 2011, 18:02

Originally Posted by Oakie

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!

It looked like a stunning place alright

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@concentration, did the structure "crick and crack" or groan under pressure while inspecting the place? that just creeped me out somewhat

**Motig** · 20th March 2011, 18:12

Why blame ken ring or whatever his name is. The media are the ones who keep pushing the story.

**Oakie** · 20th March 2011, 18:14

We never found damage and the biggest shake we went out for was only about 4. Being driven up the earth face of the Pukaki Dam in a Nissan Patrol in the half dark was a pretty freaky experience though.

I did see a leak under the Ruataniwha control gate structure but apparantly it has been there from the start and never got any worse so its just monitored as it flows into something like a toilet cistern and then flushed into the Ohau Canal at about 60 litres every 5 minutes or so.

**gunrunner** · 20th March 2011, 18:14

went to Castlepoint with a 24 pack of bring it and nothing ...

**Grumph** · 20th March 2011, 18:34

Originally Posted by AllanB

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.

Headaches seem to be very prevalent around Canty at present...if it works you will be a popular fellow....and there will be a market for tinfoil hats...$$$$$

**EJK** · 20th March 2011, 18:48

Didn't you guys feel the earthquake this morning?!?!?!

...exactly.

**far queue** · 20th March 2011, 19:02

Originally Posted by JMemonic

I know a few who headed that way to escape.

What cracked me up is all the people that ran away to Hanmer Springs to hide ... in the mountains ... where there's lots of fault lines ... where the geo scientist people (not the Ken Ring people) say there's still an 8 due sometime

**Oakie** · 20th March 2011, 19:09

And the people I heard of who went to Twizel for the weekend and struck 3 quakes over 4. in just over 20 minutes.

**Mom** · 20th March 2011, 19:19

Originally Posted by far queue

What cracked me up is all the people that ran away to Hanmer Springs to hide ... in the mountains ... where there's lots of fault lines ... where the geo scientist people (not the Ken Ring people) say there's still an 8 due sometime

Originally Posted by Oakie

And the people I heard of who went to Twizel for the weekend and struck 3 quakes over 4. in just over 20 minutes.

I know it is easy to laugh, but there have been people very rattled by this mans prediction. Generally those most unsettled by recent events down there. We can't belittle their feelings. They were frightened enough to upsticks and leave town. Rediculous or not it was/is real for them. Poor bastards.

Why are we not venting against John "Sensationalist Wanker" Campbell?

**far queue** · 20th March 2011, 19:31

Originally Posted by Mom

I know it is easy to laugh, but there have been people very rattled by this mans prediction. Generally those most unsettled by recent events down there. We can't belittle their feelings. They were frightened enough to upsticks and leave town. Rediculous or not it was/is real for them. Poor bastards.

Yes, some people have been very rattled. I know of a couple of them that are now on happy pills to keep them going. In fact I was dog sitting this weekend for one that did a runner. My laughing wasn't so much at their decision to run, but their choice of hiding place. Out of the frying pan and into the fire sort of thing.

Originally Posted by Mom

Why are we not venting against John "Sensationalist Wanker" Campbell?

Yes, he's certainly a tosser, and was a right wanker in that interview.

**Oakie** · 20th March 2011, 19:53

Originally Posted by Mom

I know it is easy to laugh, but there have been people very rattled by this mans prediction.

You don't need to tell me that. I've been struggling for months with people at work who have bought right into this. It's been made doubly hard because our management team has largely bought into it too. The problem where I work is that it's driven by a particular philosophy that embraces the rhythms of nature ... the seasons etc. Mr Ring's theory being built around the lunar cycle fitted right in with what they sympathised with so they were suckers for it. Really hard trying to respect their beliefs but tell them it was bullshit. It just sounded so right to them.

We did have people who left town including a couple who are away for a whole week around the 20th. The worst one I had to deal with though was a woman who has had to stay with her daughter for a couple of weeks now as she (the daughter) has been suicidal because she thought the world was going to end on the 20th.

I fully know the genuine fear this has caused in many people. I even saw it in then normally level-headed Mrs Oakie as she had to work alone in her 2nd story office today.