Everybody OK down there?

pat foster · Post by **pat foster** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:06 am

Just read about an earthquake off NZ. Hope all is well.

Pat

seeaxe · Post by **seeaxe** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:50 am

I didn't feel it, but then Im in Auckland. Might have knocked some tools off the bench in Christchurch?

A local described it as one of the "better" ones he's felt in 9 years of living there! But so far so good, no reports of injuries on the NZ Herald website.

Cheers for worrying about us Pat!

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:04 am

Never felt a thing & I'm on the east coast in ChCh, some guy was just on the radio said he felt it so maybe I'm just an insensitive bast*rd

Apparently she was a 7.8 shaker so I should have felt something!! But thanks for the concern Pat

Bob Connor · Post by **Bob Connor** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:38 am

They issued a tsunami alert here in SE Australia last night but nothing really happened.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:27 am

bob wrote:They issued a tsunami alert here in SE Australia last night but nothing really happened.

Yeah I heard that

Turned out to be a wave 0.5m high or something! Hardly strong enough to wash your dinner plates in! I don't know, first killer bird flu then killer swine flu now massive waves! The world's gone into panic mode

The one that did do catastrophic damage, nobody was told about.

Don't press the big red button marked "Panic button!"

kiwigeo · Post by **kiwigeo** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:44 am

6.7 magnitude (Richter scale) quake about 5km deep with epicentre in Fiordland. Some minor damage to structures in nearby population centres but not injuries or fatalities. The Alpine Fault exits from land into the Tasman Sea at Jackson Bay a bit further north.....sounds like the fault getting rid of a bit of stress.

The magnitude of the quake was reported at 8.2 by tsunami warning centre in Hawaii....Id believe the GNS reported figure of 6.6.....Americans always tend to exagerate things whereas Kiwis always tell it like it is.

Lillian · Post by **Lillian** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:53 am

kiwigeo wrote:6.7 magnitude (Richter scale) quake about 5km deep with epicentre in Fiordland. Some minor damage to structures in nearby population centres but not injuries or fatalities. The Alpine Fault exits from land into the Tasman Sea at Jackson Bay a bit further north.....sounds like the fault getting rid of a bit of stress.

The magnitude of the quake was reported at 8.2 by tsunami warning centre in Hawaii....Id believe the GNS reported figure of 6.6.....Americans always tend to exagerate things whereas Kiwis always tell it like it is.

Well that explains why I've never felt any of the quakes they have reported up here. And I thought it was me.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:06 am

kiwigeo wrote:6.7 magnitude (Richter scale) quake about 5km deep with epicentre in Fiordland. Some minor damage to structures in nearby population centres but not injuries or fatalities. The Alpine Fault exits from land into the Tasman Sea at Jackson Bay a bit further north.....sounds like the fault getting rid of a bit of stress.

The magnitude of the quake was reported at 8.2 by tsunami warning centre in Hawaii....Id believe the GNS reported figure of 6.6.....Americans always tend to exagerate things whereas Kiwis always tell it like it is.

They're doing air surveys of fiordland and surrounding areas, nothing drastic shown up yet. For people that aren't aware, the area that was closest is thick mountainous bush with a minimal population, a few farms and mostly National Park & tourist area's.

kiwigeo wrote: Kiwis always tell it like it is.

"Abit of a wobble, didn't even wake the sheep.Was nothin' really, geez the bed moves more when the wife snores!"

Dennis Leahy · Post by **Dennis Leahy** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:54 pm

kiwigeo wrote:...Americans always tend to exagerate things whereas Kiwis always tell it like it is.

We all have "Paul Bunyan Syndrome."

Dennis

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:11 pm

Dennis Leahy wrote:We all have "Paul Bunyan Syndrome."

Dennis

Wasn't he the fella who was 8 foot tall and 10 pick axe handles wide across the shoulders & hands like digger buckets?
Geez, 'taint no exageration, we'ze all built like that down these parts!

Stu · Post by **Stu** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 3:46 pm

kiwigeo wrote:6.7 magnitude (Richter scale) quake about 5km deep with epicentre in Fiordland. Some minor damage to structures in nearby population centres but not injuries or fatalities. The Alpine Fault exits from land into the Tasman Sea at Jackson Bay a bit further north.....sounds like the fault getting rid of a bit of stress.

The magnitude of the quake was reported at 8.2 by tsunami warning centre in Hawaii....Id believe the GNS reported figure of 6.6.....Americans always tend to exagerate things whereas Kiwis always tell it like it is.

Spoken like a true geologist , Martin.

Stu

Stephen Kinnaird · Post by **Stephen Kinnaird** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:59 am

kiwigeo wrote:.....Americans always tend to exagerate things whereas Kiwis always tell it like it is.

I think you're confusing all Americans with Texans.
We never met a hyperbole we didn't like.

And, perhaps you're confusing all Kiwis with...saints?

Just a thought...

(Can feel a 7.8 ban a'coming)

Steve

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:39 am

Stephen Kinnaird wrote:

Just a thought...

(Can feel a 7.8 ban a'coming)

Steve

That one was so good Steve, that you can stay.

Stephen Kinnaird · Post by **Stephen Kinnaird** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:26 pm

Thank you Allen.
Just wait till Martin has a look at this, though.

Say, who has more authority anyway?
Who wields the supreme power????

Steve

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:39 pm

Don't let him know, but were all pretty wary of Kim.

pat foster · Post by **pat foster** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:59 pm

Good. Sounds like you're all OK .

or not

Pat

Paul B · Post by **Paul B** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 10:31 am

Stephen Kinnaird wrote: And, perhaps you're confusing all Kiwis with...saints?

No, it's just that Kiwi's don't have much imagination

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 2:48 pm

Paul B wrote:No, it's just that Kiwi's don't have much imagination

Ha! No imagination......Ernest Rutherford, Richard Pearse, Peter Jackson to name but a few

Lillian · Post by **Lillian** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 3:12 pm

Nick O wrote:
Paul B wrote:No, it's just that Kiwi's don't have much imagination
Ha! No imagination......Ernest Rutherford, Richard Pearse, Peter Jackson to name but a few

Who?

kiwigeo · Post by **kiwigeo** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 6:23 pm

And lets not forget the jetboat (Hamilton Jet in Christchurch) and the postage stamp machine.

Kim · Post by **Kim** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:43 pm

And the over arm bowl

Lillian · Post by **Lillian** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:01 pm

Actually Peter was a major influence on us wanting to head to NZ.

Paul B · Post by **Paul B** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:35 am

Nick O wrote:
Paul B wrote:No, it's just that Kiwi's don't have much imagination
Ha! No imagination......Ernest Rutherford, Richard Pearse, Peter Jackson to name but a few

Yeah, ok, I'll admit that Rutherford had his moments, as did Burt Munro and Jackson. Dunno who this Pearse bloke was tho.

kiwigeo · Post by **kiwigeo** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:25 pm

Richard Pearse...possibly pioneered powered flight before the Wright brothers. He hailed from Temuka, just south of Christchurch. A replica of his plane is preserved at MOTAT in Auckland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pearse

Note the sad ending to his life....incarcerated in a mental hospital..the place was just up the road from where I used to live in Christchurch.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:39 pm

Paul B wrote:Yeah, ok, I'll admit that Rutherford had his moments, as did Burt Munro and Jackson. Dunno who this Pearse bloke was tho.

Richard Pearse designed,built and flew his own aeroplane on his farm, there is some argument but no hard proof (only witness statements) that he actually got his plane up into the air before the Wright brothers. Either way the two events were very close together. If the flight had been a bit better documented (i.e the press were there) a kiwi might have been recognised as having made the first powered flight.

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