Seismic activity?

[Virago]

How would you locals describe the level of seismic activity lately?

Didn't feel a thing.




Oops, sorry - did you say locals? I thought you said yokels...

[Big Dave]

Didn't feel a thing.




Oops, sorry - did you say locals? I thought you said yokels...

I would have typed slower.

I've lived in the outback mate - you're all locals here.

[avgas]

purple........................code purple even

[Ralph]

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.

Not much to alarmed about yesterday at Matata there was one for 3.2

Pretty common there at least one week.

Murchison 2.7 today also.

Find them at www.geonet.org.nz

[yod]

4.3's just a tiddler, no worries

> 6 = fun
> 7 = undy changing time
> 8 = fuckin pwned

edit: btw - its an exponential scale so you get the idea....


or, as stated above, a volcanic event of the ultra-plinian variety and you may as well grab your ankles and get ready for the pineapple

[Mully]

How would you locals describe the level of seismic activity lately?

Seismiriffic.
Seistacular
Seistastic

OK, I'll stop now

[MVnut]

How would you locals describe the level of seismic activity lately?

You weren't at my place when I mentioned Sharapova this morning were you Big Dave ??

[Pumba]

" Ramping up for the Big One"

Quite the opposite if my uderstanding is correct (an interesting concept I know but just stick with me).

The more smaller shakes we have more often means that the plates are releasing pressure slowly at a constant rate.

If we were to go a significant number of years without a shake in an area that is prone to shakes there is a greater chance of there being one BIG shake.

Of course I dont think this teory works for somewhere like Auckland cause it isint on the major Fault Line. Frequent decent sized shakes here generly mean somthing is brewing and getting ready too go bang.

[Swoop]

BD. I have been told that Auckland has about 50 "quakes" per day. Not felt since they are small and deep.

Have been here a few years and I have only ever felt the one that happened off of Orewa a year or so ago.

We do have quite a few volcano's around the area though...

..but the house we used to live in at the time was made entirely of wood...

Surely there would have been some metal nails in there somewhere?

[007XX]

Surely there would have been some metal nails in there somewhere?

Oh look!!! A nit picker...

[yod]

We do have quite a few volcano's around the area though...

63 apparently

[Ixion]

BD. I have been told that Auckland has about 50 "quakes" per day. Not felt since they are small and deep.

Have been here a few years and I have only ever felt the one that happened off of Orewa a year or so ago.

We do have quite a few volcano's around the area though...



Surely there would have been some metal nails in there somewhere?

Not necessarily. Maybe not n NZ, but in UK there would be houses built the old way with tenon joints and wooden pegs.

[Swoop]

Not necessarily. Maybe not n NZ, but in UK there would be houses built the old way with tenon joints and wooden pegs.

Agreed. In our library we have a book on Japanese joinery.
Absolutely stunning work (from a woodworking-perverts point of view) and hardly a piece of metal in sight.
Remarkable how their traditional buildings have stood through hundreds of years of earthquakes and yet the modern buildings seem to get tired and lay down for a rest.

[Steam]

How would you locals describe the level of seismic activity lately?

Are you hinting at the coming of the End Times, as indicated by the increase in the occurence of disasters?

Because the stats (as mentioned in Skeptical Inquirer magazine) show there's been no increase, just more media attention to disasters that have always happened.

[Street Gerbil]

My neighbor's wife must have backed her van into the wall... Again...