Big quake off New Zealand with tsunami

[cullennz]

The quirk of exponential scaling still confuses me.

Apparently the one in Kaikoura was 30 times bigger than the Canterbury earthquake

 

[Elagabalus]

That's what it felt like to us. I had just gone to bed but was still awake when I felt the swaying motion; like someone gently pushing the bed back and forth. Then it stopped, and I had enough time to think "small tremor" before it started up again, this time really shaking. I got straight out of bed, it was difficult to stand up. The floor was swaying back and forth at a frequency of about 1 second (½ sec in each direction) and it went on for about a minute. It was very frightening, the house was creaking and rattling and a few books fell out of book shelves but no damage to the house..

Did you hear "the train"?

 

[Oystein]

You have to stay on top in the unlikely event the house starts falling apart.

You have to be able to run

Actually, the advice is to duck under a table or something else and hold on to it.
The first danger is your house falling on you. You can't run as fast as the ceiling descends on you. You cannot run after the big beam smacked you on the head.

 

[cullennz]

Actually, the advice is to duck under a table or something else and hold on to it.
The first danger is your house falling on you. You can't run as fast as the ceiling descends on you. You cannot run after the big beam smacked you on the head.

Was talking about after the main shock.

In the event of another even bigger that would wake me up

 

[cullennz]

Should point out most of my house sits over a hill on massive wooden beams so the roof is kind of the least of my worries

 

[Oystein]

Was talking about after the main shock.

In the event of another even bigger that would wake me up

In the event of another even bigger event, the advice will still be: duck, cover and hold.
That's why I'd prefer to be under the bed already before it strikes.
Alternatively out in the open.
Unless a storm moves in

 

[cullennz]

In the event of another even bigger event, the advice will still be: duck, cover and hold.
That's why I'd prefer to be under the bed already before it strikes.
Alternatively out in the open.
Unless a storm moves in

The people giving the advice aren't trying to sleep

Apparently the center of Wellington wharf has dropped 5 feet

 

[Oystein]

The people giving the advice aren't trying to sleep

The only earth quake I ever experienced was a 12-second magnitude 5.6, which was the biggest here in Germany in centuries
And I happened to lie in the lowest bunk of a three-story bunk bed, and I knew immediately that I was already in the safest place I could reach within 10 seconds
Worded differently: I heeded my own advice and lay under a bed, while simultaneously lying in my bed

 

[PhantomWolf]

It was quite spooky, mostly because it lasted so long, some people are saying up to 4 minutes. Luckily where I am is far enough away that the quake was strong but not damaging and other then a power outage in parts of the city and objects falling off shelves we made it through well enough. We're also out of the Tsunami areas, so didn't have to worry about that either. Sadly reports have 2 fatalities and there are reports of people trapped under landslides, so that's not so good news.

 

[Oystein]

Oh dear - less than 10 minutes ago another strong quake, magnitude 6.6 6.3, 30 km north of Cheviot
http://www.geonet.org.nz/quakes/region/newzealand/2016p859524
(Report reviewed and revised)

 

[cullennz]

This is getting irritating

And will go on for weeks probably

 

[cullennz]

Wondered why it felt so long.

Apparently it was two semi simultaneous faults going and went for 4 minutes

 

[Oystein]

Wondered why it felt so long.

Apparently it was two semi simultaneous faults going and went for 4 minutes

http://info.geonet.org.nz/display/quake/2016/11/14/M7.5+Kaikoura+Quake:+What+we+know+so+far

M7.5 Kaikoura Quake: What we know so far

[...]

Two earthquakes, not one

It looks like we’ve got two separate but related quakes going on. Our reports indicate that the combination of these two quakes lasted two minutes, with the most severe shaking at around 50 seconds. It was widely felt throughout both the North and South Islands. It looks like one was a strike-slip and the other was a thrust fault.

 

[cullennz]

There is an old house built at Bluff station directly over the fault line (built before they knew) that is still standing but moved sideways 6 meters!

 

[cullennz]

Not a good time to be driving or in a train

 

[Carnivore]

Some 1200 tourists cut off in Kaikoura, Govt sending HMNZS Canterbury to evac them. One dead in Kaikoura in a building collapse.

 

[Caper]

Was this predicted? I know Frankie predicted it, but was it known it was going to come?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isl1Gtg74e4

 

[PhantomWolf]

Was this predicted? I know Frankie predicted it, but was it known it was going to come?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isl1Gtg74e4

Predicting big Earthquakes in New Zealand is like predicting the tides. We have them a lot. There are 14,000 detectable Earthquakes in New Zealand every year, 200-250 of those are strong enough to be felt, and a size 6+ will occur pretty much at least once a year. a 7+ will generally occur every 3-4 years, but we hadn't had one since 2010, so we were seriously due one.

It doesn't take much to predict that one will occur, just need to know when the last one was and see if one is due. Next big one (7+) will likely occur in the period 2019 to 2021 most likely in Milford, Canterbury, Wellington, Hawkes Bay or the Bay of Plenty.

 

[Syameese]

Not a good time to be driving or in a train

We always wanted to do that train trip Do you think they will rebuild it, too early I know, but that road/rail link down to Christchurch seemed a very important one.

 

[PhantomWolf]

We always wanted to do that train trip Do you think they will rebuild it, too early I know, but that road/rail link down to Christchurch seemed a very important one.

It's the only rail link from Picton to Christchurch, so most likely yes,