ooooo earthquake..
Monkeypimp
13-03-2005, 16:12
My house just got a bit of a shake up for about the 5th noticable time this year. Nothing major and not very long this one, but I managed to sleep through all of the other ones. Its still claimed that the 'big one' that is supposed to be well overdue and these small earthquakes could be leading up to us (the people in my city) all dying or something.
Santa Barbara
13-03-2005, 16:13
You live in California?
Monkeypimp
13-03-2005, 16:15
You live in California?
No, but I do live on the rim of fire.
(I live in Wellington, NZ)
Jeruselem
13-03-2005, 16:16
Nah, he lives in New Zealand (aka the Shaky Isles as called by Australians).
PS - Cyclone Ingrid passed within 115 KM of my city ... and is now moving away.
Jeruselem
13-03-2005, 16:20
Here's the culprit!
http://www.geonet.org.nz/x2376319g_l.html
Monkeypimp
13-03-2005, 16:23
NZ Daylight Time: Sunday, March 13 2005 at 8:19 pm
nope not it, and theres no way I'd have felt a 2.9 near ranfurly in Wellington... I made this thread just after I felt it, and its currently 4.20am.
Jeruselem
13-03-2005, 16:42
NZ Daylight Time: Sunday, March 13 2005 at 8:19 pm
nope not it, and theres no way I'd have felt a 2.9 near ranfurly in Wellington... I made this thread just after I felt it, and its currently 4.20am.
OK, looks like one of those unreported ones not logged on Earthquake sites yet :confused:
Monkeypimp
14-03-2005, 03:07
OK, looks like one of those unreported ones not logged on Earthquake sites yet :confused:
Its there now. http://www.geonet.org.nz/latest.html
Reference Number: 2376455/G
Universal Time: March 13 2005 at 15:08
NZ Daylight Time: Monday, March 14 2005 at 4:08 am
Latitude, Longitude: 40.17°S, 173.63°E
Focal Depth: 150 km
Richter Magnitude: 6.4
80 km south of Opunake
90 km south-west of Patea
90 km south-west of Hawera
160 km north-west of Wellington
Magnitude revised after reception of further data. Felt throughout central New Zealand.
New Foxxinnia
14-03-2005, 03:36
Its there now. http://www.geonet.org.nz/latest.html
OMG! UNDERWATER! RUN! TSUNAMI!
Monkeypimp
14-03-2005, 04:11
OMG! UNDERWATER! RUN! TSUNAMI!
I was wondering why it was so wet outside.
Findecano Calaelen
14-03-2005, 04:14
Wow i've never felt an earthquake
Its too far away
14-03-2005, 04:17
NZ Daylight Time: Sunday, March 13 2005 at 8:19 pm
nope not it, and theres no way I'd have felt a 2.9 near ranfurly in Wellington... I made this thread just after I felt it, and its currently 4.20am.
Yeah it woke me up :(:(
Bitchkitten
14-03-2005, 04:22
Most people don't know about the largest one North America had in historical times. The New Madrid earthquake in the early 1800's reversed the course of the Mississippi River.
The Plutonian Empire
14-03-2005, 04:23
Wow i've never felt an earthquake
Me neither :(
Cannot think of a name
14-03-2005, 04:26
NZ Daylight Time: Sunday, March 13 2005 at 8:19 pm
nope not it, and theres no way I'd have felt a 2.9 near ranfurly in Wellington... I made this thread just after I felt it, and its currently 4.20am.
It was tryin' to get you to wake-n-bake...since it was time...
I used to live about 100 yards away from the Hayward Fault, which is supposed to be one of the centers of the comin' "Big One"...
Findecano Calaelen
14-03-2005, 04:31
Me neither :(
I wonder what we are missing
The Plutonian Empire
14-03-2005, 04:33
I wonder what we are missing
Hopefully, one of these days, I'll be sitting next a girl with big boobs in an earthquake, if you know what i mean... http://img227.exs.cx/img227/8438/pimp4tq.gif :D
Findecano Calaelen
14-03-2005, 04:40
Hopefully, one of these days, I'll be sitting next a girl with big boobs in an earthquake, if you know what i mean... http://img227.exs.cx/img227/8438/pimp4tq.gif :D
your starting to scare me mate :D
The Plutonian Empire
14-03-2005, 04:41
your starting to scare me mate :D
What, you don't wanna be entertained by jiggling jello in the middle of an earthquake? :D
Findecano Calaelen
14-03-2005, 04:43
What, you don't wanna be entertained by jiggling jello in the middle of an earthquake? :D
I would probably take a peak but I think I would have other things on my mind :)
The Plutonian Empire
14-03-2005, 04:45
I would probably take a peak but I think I would have other things on my mind :)
hehehe! "Take a peak" :D
Findecano Calaelen
14-03-2005, 04:56
hehehe! "Take a peak" :D
lol what a humourous typo
Monkeypimp
14-03-2005, 12:36
Most people don't know about the largest one North America had in historical times. The New Madrid earthquake in the early 1800's reversed the course of the Mississippi River.
If you walk down Lambton Quay in Wellington there are plaques on the ground every so often that say 'shore line 1840'. The street is about 3 blocks away from the waterfront and Queens warf, but an earthquake in the mid 1850s that was a magnitude of 8.2 changed it a bit. Most of the CBD is built on land bought up by it, and the Basin Reserve (a cricket ground, Findecano Calaelen will have heard of it) has that name because it used to be a lake with a natural canal running down what is now Kent tce to the harbour. The quake basically bought up enough flat land between the water and the hills to build a city on.
Lunatic Goofballs
14-03-2005, 12:42
Most people don't know about the largest one North America had in historical times. The New Madrid earthquake in the early 1800's reversed the course of the Mississippi River.
Temporarily, I'm assuming. :p
Demented Hamsters
14-03-2005, 16:51
If you walk down Lambton Quay in Wellington there are plaques on the ground every so often that say 'shore line 1840'. The street is about 3 blocks away from the waterfront and Queens warf, but an earthquake in the mid 1850s that was a magnitude of 8.2 changed it a bit. Most of the CBD is built on land bought up by it, and the Basin Reserve (a cricket ground, Findecano Calaelen will have heard of it) has that name because it used to be a lake with a natural canal running down what is now Kent tce to the harbour. The quake basically bought up enough flat land between the water and the hills to build a city on.
Same thing if you go to Napier - scene of the 1931 earthquake (a 7.8). It raised the land by nearly 3 metres. Most of present-day Napier stands in what was once a lagoon.
My Grandfather was in that quake. He was also in the Inangahua 'quake (7.1, 1968 - the rest of my family was in that one too. Not me cause I wasn't born yet!) and the Murchison 'quake (7.8, 1929). The htree biggest earthquakes in NZ during the 20th Century.
He was one of the unluckiest luckiest guys ever. Always came out unscathed, but he must of thougt at times why he was always there when they hit!
I was in one once, when I lived in Palmerston North. The house start wobbling and I remember looking at the ceiling and seeing it undulate like a wave. I was fascinated by it, thinking it was so cool. After about 30 seconds I started thinking that maybe I should hide under the table, but thankfully the 'quake stopped about then.
http://www.geonet.org.nz/recent_quakes.html
:eek: That's quite scary, looking at all the quakes that's happened in Kiwiland over the past 6 weeks!