***BREAKING*** Strong earthquake felt in Wellington, New Zealand 01/03/2011! | |
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KPAXIAN87 (OP) User ID: 1280457 United Kingdom 03/01/2011 05:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 4.5 Magnitude Struck at 10:07pm Centred 20km northwest of Wellington Depth of 40km, according to the GeoNet website. [link to www.stuff.co.nz] [link to www.geonet.org.nz] Last Edited by KPAXIAN87 on 03/01/2011 05:09 AM "Fight and you'll never survive..... Run and you'll never escape." |
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Delta User ID: 340808 New Zealand 03/01/2011 05:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | felt it 45km up the coast, was located on the wairau fault, runs up to Kapiti Island and splits, and runs down the southern alps, main fault/tectonic I think. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1116636God have mercy if the main fault lets one rip. Apparently happens ever 300 years or so. Last Edited by Delta on 03/01/2011 05:17 AM "According to our manner of looking at the matter, every star in the universe would be the seat and field of activity of electric forces of a strength that no one could imagine... ...enormous electric currents with enormous tension are produced..." - Kristian Olaf Bernhard Berkeland (1908) |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1116636 New Zealand 03/01/2011 05:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the Feb. 22 quake involved faulting at the eastern edge of the aftershock zone from the Sept. 2010 event. The earthquake is broadly associated with deformation occurring at the boundary of the Pacific and Australia tectonic plates. [link to www.jpl.nasa.gov] |