davidsmith1307
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Get some clean pants in the fridge!
Just had a 6M quake centered about 30KMs from here - gave us and the house a fecking good shake - but the volcano is still quiet - so the Freelander Bug Out Alert Level has only gone from code Green to Yellow!
Hope that there is no EMP is involved with the crisis situation. Because the Freebie will be a shed on wheels, if so.
It's good to see a real life freelander bug out vehicle!
My last post was in Feb last year when a 6M quake sent the Freelander Bug Out Alert Level from code Green to Yellow - no immediate response required.
In November me and Mrs Grumpy were down in Queenstown with friends for a long weekend - its about a 5 or 6 hours drive away from home. Wife gets a phone call from the kids at about midnight on the Sunday - "Its all kicking off", "the house is shaking" - turns out is a code Brown 7.8M quake - we wondered why the lights were swaying all the way down in Queenstown!
So Freelander Bug Out Vehicle to the rescue - through the night drive home to save the kids from death and destruction..... Ahhh - problem, I'm pished as a phart! So roll over back to sleep - we'll give you a call in the morning
Absolutely. It was known as the Kaikoura Quake - you've probably seen pics of it.. big slips blocking roads and rivers, railway dragged into the sea, sea bed raised 2m... and the iconic 3 cows stuck on a patch of ground that didn't subside...Take it the 'Brown' alert refers to the colour of the inside of everyones underwear??
You'd love it here then - far to much active seismology going on. Auckland, a city of 2 million people is built on an active volcano field - literally every few hundred years a new island pops up or hill created by volcanic eruptions in what is the Auckland city boundaries. Lake Taupo is a caldera for an active super volcano that's created the largest eruption on the planet in the last 5,000 years. Probably a dozen active volcanos. The capital Wellington is built on a huge fault. The Southern Alps are one of the fastest growing mountain ranges in the world. How the Rotorua area still exists, I have no idea, the earth's crust there must be wafer thin, as well as the geysers and bubbling mud stuff, steam rises everywhere.. fields, towns, cracks in pavements, back gardens.. steam rises from it all, every now and then a huge hole will get punched in a road (or a house gets demolished) because of a thermal break out. Geothermal hot pools in various other parts of the country as well - literally puddles or ponds on the side of the road might contain really hot water.Yep remember that one..
Have a 'thing' about volcanology and geology in general....
Family live in Scotland, surrounded by volcanoes there....luckily all extinct!!!
You'd love it here then - far to much active seismology going on. Auckland, a city of 2 million people is built on an active volcano field - literally every few hundred years a new island pops up or hill created by volcanic eruptions in what is the Auckland city boundaries. Lake Taupo is a caldera for an active super volcano that's created the largest eruption on the planet in the last 5,000 years. Probably a dozen active volcanos. The capital Wellington is built on a huge fault. The Southern Alps are one of the fastest growing mountain ranges in the world. How the Rotorua area still exists, I have no idea, the earth's crust there must be wafer thin, as well as the geysers and bubbling mud stuff, steam rises everywhere.. fields, towns, cracks in pavements, back gardens.. steam rises from it all, every now and then a huge hole will get punched in a road (or a house gets demolished) because of a thermal break out. Geothermal hot pools in various other parts of the country as well - literally puddles or ponds on the side of the road might contain really hot water.
It's all carved out a fantastic country though!
Yeh, I think when Yellowstone goes it'll probably take over from Taupo - and as you say, global warming will be the last of our (or our decendents) troubles!
Its a long way down here, and not cheap - but worth the effort. I'm doing the reverse trip (back to UK) in a couple of weeks - shall be packing my bag with Landie bits for the return journey - savings will go some way to pay for the flight!
Shall be based in South London with Mrs Grumpy's fanau - we're back for her niece's wedding. As with trips back home though, its a merry go round of visiting people in different places.
what happened to the rest of the herd?Absolutely. It was known as the Kaikoura Quake - you've probably seen pics of it.. big slips blocking roads and rivers, railway dragged into the sea, sea bed raised 2m... and the iconic 3 cows stuck on a patch of ground that didn't subside...
Interesting! I wasn't sure - so I did a bit of googling. Going by this pic from an article about their rescue, it looks like they were probably on the side of a hill that slipped...what happened to the rest of the herd?
wouldn't like yo live in an area like that! poor buggersInteresting! I wasn't sure - so I did a bit of googling. Going by this pic from an article about their rescue, it looks like they were probably on the side of a hill that slipped...
That's taken from this article... http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/86512978/Pictures-of-rescued-quake-cows-released
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/86512978/Pictures-of-rescued-quake-cows-released
There's another article about 2 other cows that were stuck in almost identical form... http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/nz-...ppened-to-the-cows-stranded-on-a-quake-island
From that article...
A farmer reportedly told the network that other cows had died because of the quakes.
Some calves, from the stranded cows' family, were believed to be dead. The mother cows were reportedly "a bit distressed".
I love the bit in the first article about the farm owner's sister and brother-in-law who couldn't get hold of them because the phones were down. So they jumped in their Cessna and flew up from their farm down south in Gore....
Bowmar tried to land on the air strip at the station, where he had landed many times before, but after circling three times he abandoned the idea.
The land at one end of the strip had raised around 8-10 metres during the earthquakes, as it rested on a fault, Bowmar said.
He ended up landing on the main State Highway 1 near the farm.
While I was googling I got that familiar "something's happening" feeling. A sense of activity, a sound something like a HGV approaching - but you know its not. Then probably within a second you feel the chair move under you, the screen starts wobbling, the house give few creaks and you get bumped up and down a bit. Was only a tiddler 3.3M centered about 8kms from here...
http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/2017p596246
From that page, clicking Earthquake and Statistics, it shows there were 20,000 quakes in NZ in the last year (not abnormal), of those about 3/4rs wouldn't have been to small to be felt - but that still leaves about 5,000 of quakes each year like the one I just felt or bigger. The stats show 9 big quakes of 6M+, they all look to be related to the Kaikoura quake last November, but there probably aren't to many years go by without big quakes like these, its just they are usually in less populated regions - like remote Fiordland. Its why the locals call it the "Shakey Isles".
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