Bastard earthquake!

[T.W.R]

Very common, I was reading reports from the early settlers back in the mid to late 1800s

We had a English tourist in at work when the Feb one hit, his comment was "we dont get shit like this at home"

Don't the Shaky Isles rock

This is just the shallow ones

[98tls]

Learnt about the Cheviot one (6.9) at school although it should really be called the Parnassus earthquake and I was reading the story board about the Cathedral in the square two weeks ago

Just did a refresher and found some reports of liquifaction in Kaiapoi from the 1901 in the areas which are now fucked

Interesting that,never knew there had been one at Cheviot/Parnassus,nor did i know how Parnassus came to be named.

[98tls]

I was 5 when the Inangahua earthquake struck,dont remember anything myself but mum had got up early to go to work at the Culverdun toll exchange and always remembered looking out the lounge window and seeing the power lines arcing.My Grandmother was in Westport when the Murchison one stuck and reckoned that was well scary.

[F5 Dave]

Erm, so how did they know in 1855, that a quake was 8.2 and not, say a 6.2?

[ellipsis]

Erm, so how did they know in 1855, that a quake was 8.2 and not, say a 6.2?

...'cos Geowankboffins new as much then as they do now, could be an answer...

[Crasherfromwayback]

Erm, so how did they know in 1855, that a quake was 8.2 and not, say a 6.2?

Probably by the size of the skid marks in their gruts!

[imdying]

Erm, so how did they know in 1855, that a quake was 8.2 and not, say a 6.2?

Presumably something that large left plenty of evidence to analyse... when a million cube of earth moves a few metres, you can extrapolate from that something big happened.

[Banditbandit]

...'cos Geowankboffins new as much then as they do now, could be an answer...

I like this one ...

The Earth moves occassionally - get over it ... Who told you this was a safe planet we live on ???

[F5 Dave]

Presumably something that large left plenty of evidence to analyse... when a million cube of earth moves a few metres, you can extrapolate from that something big happened.

To quote someone who probably knows a whole lot more than I do about the subject.. .

. . .
The talk of richter scale values doesn't mean a whole lot... we learnt it was very much depth, location, and whole heap of underground shit you can't see, that dictated how much of a beating you got. . . .

So I still struggle to see how they can work it out. Probably a free app someone downloaded

[Banditbandit]

I was 5 when the Inangahua earthquake struck,dont remember anything myself but mum had got up early to go to work at the Culverdun toll exchange and always remembered looking out the lounge window and seeing the power lines arcing.My Grandmother was in Westport when the Murchison one stuck and reckoned that was well scary.

I was at Intermediate school - I think this one was my first realization that earthquakes could actually be disasterous - and I have a clear picture (black and white) of a large crack running across the road at Inungahua. In fact (when I went to look) this one .. adn the car in the hole.

[Kickaha]

Erm, so how did they know in 1855, that a quake was 8.2 and not, say a 6.2?

Dunno but here's the areas where you might get your feet wet if it happens again

In the red, orange and yellow zones people need to be prepared to evacuate if there is a tsunami. The red zone is mainly for beach areas that could be hit by a one-metre tsunami generated thousands of kilometres away and during which people are advised to stay off the beaches.
The orange zone is based on a tsunami similar to that which happened in 1855, and the yellow zone is based on how far the devastation might extend if a 10-metre wave struck.

[imdying]

So I still struggle to see how they can work it out.

Well, it's a log scale, so the difference between 8.2 and 6.2, is huge.

[mashman]

I like this one ...

The Earth expands occassionally - get over it ... Who told you this was a safe planet we live on ???

Fixed that for ya

[Grumph]

I was 5 when the Inangahua earthquake struck,dont remember anything myself but mum had got up early to go to work at the Culverdun toll exchange and always remembered looking out the lounge window and seeing the power lines arcing.My Grandmother was in Westport when the Murchison one stuck and reckoned that was well scary.

I was talking to Mo Haley a couple of years back about the quakes and his response was along the lines of..."you bastard young cunts don't f'n know you're f'n born....the Christchurch quake ? piss on that for a quake....now the Inangahua quakes, THAT was a quake....

i believe he was working on the coast at the time and may even from the pungency of his reply have been underground at the time...

Took a lot to impress Mo so i'd say Inangahua was a big one....

[mhbarber]

To quote someone who probably knows a whole lot more than I do about the subject.. .



So I still struggle to see how they can work it out. Probably a free app someone downloaded

the Mercalli Earthquake Scale - when that Big One hit Murchison in 1929, welll, no-one cared, because no-one lived there. 17 people died, I guess they probably cared a lot!
There were people in WLG when the 'rapa quake of '55 occurred
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1855_Wairarapa_earthquake