Australia and New Zealand >>>>>>Our Journey through 2012 and beyond.....................

Should I come back to Australia soon? I live overseas.

Is there going to be any smack laid down in the Asian region soon?

I need to plan a getaway if so.

Its so nice to read this thread everyday

Thankyou.

Type: Earthquake
6 hours ago
Magnitude: 3.6
DateTime: Thursday May 3 2012, 13:50:00 UTC
Region: 20 km west of Raetihi
Depth: 25 km
Source: NZ GeoNet

Type: Earthquake
3 hours ago
Magnitude: 5.2
DateTime: Thursday May 3 2012, 16:14:19 UTC
Region: New Britain Region, PNG.
Depth: 35 km
Source: GeoScience Australia

Type: Earthquake
5 hours ago
Magnitude: 4.8
DateTime: Thursday May 3 2012, 14:28:58 UTC
Region: Near N Coast Of New Guinea, Png.
Depth: 100 km
Source: CSEM-EMSC Feed

Type: Earthquake
6 hours ago
Magnitude: 4.9
DateTime: Thursday May 3 2012, 13:38:35 UTC
Region: off the west coast of northern Sumatra
Depth: 29.6 km


Source: USGS Feed

Tasmanian scientists help prove Mars had water

A UNIVERSITY of Tasmania scientist is part of an international team that says it has conclusive proof that water once flowed on the surface of Mars.
Paulo de Souza is a co-author of a paper published in the prestigious journal Science that reports findings from the rover Opportunity's analysis of a huge crater on the planet.

Opportunity found the mineral gypsum, a key indicator of the presence of water in the past which had not been found by other Mars rovers.

"There are a large number of craters on Mars which are well preserved," Professor De Souza said.

"For geologists it is as if time has stopped. The crater rims have not been eroded by the elements as they have been on Earth.

"When you see the deposits you can understand which processes took place.

"Key minerals revealing wet processes could be everywhere on Mars but we don't know - it is too deep below that surface, that's why exploring craters is so attractive."


It took the rover seven years to navigate the 33 kilometres from its landing spot to the rim of the crater known as Endeavour.

Opportunity is still exploring the Martian surface eight years after it landed in 2004.
[link to www.news.com.au]

Boy, 14, missing in Sydney during visit.
A 14-YEAR-old boy has gone missing from Sydney's inner west during a visit from Tasmania.
Lee Williams, in Sydney for the school holidays, was staying with relatives on Allen St, Leichhardt.
He left the house at 10am (AEST) on Wednesday to meet up with a friend in the city to watch a movie, and had a mobile phone, wallet and cash with him.
He was expected home about 4pm but failed to return and was reported missing to police on Thursday night.
Lee is Asian in appearance, 165cm tall, slim build with an Asian cultural tattoo on his right forearm.
He has black hair with a long fringe and was wearing a black hooded jacket and navy trousers with a white stripe.
[link to www.news.com.au]

Type: Earthquake
8 hours ago
Magnitude: 4.8
DateTime: Friday May 4 2012, 17:58:49 UTC
Region: South Of Fiji Islands
Depth: 60 km
Source: CSEM-EMSC Feed

Type: Earthquake
2 hours ago
Magnitude: 4.9
DateTime: Saturday May 5 2012, 00:11:12 UTC
Region: Southeast Of Easter Island
Depth: 10 km
Source: CSEM-EMSC Feed

The Australian earthquake site is shut down.

[link to www.ga.gov.au]

Type: Earthquake
58 minutes ago
Magnitude: 4.8
DateTime: Saturday May 5 2012, 20:34:04 UTC
Region: Eastern New Guinea Reg., P.n.g.'
Depth: 206 km
Source: CSEM-EMSC Feed

Type: Earthquake
68 minutes ago
Magnitude: 5.5
DateTime: Saturday May 5 2012, 20:23:30 UTC
Region: Tonga'
Depth: 2 km
Source: CSEM-EMSC Feed

Missing teen boy found safe in Sydney

A 14-year-old Tasmanian boy has been found in Sydney's western suburbs three days after he went missing.
Lee Williams was staying with relatives in the inner west suburb of Leichhardt during a school holiday visit.
He left their house on Wednesday morning to watch a movie with a friend in the city and was reported missing the next day.
But following a public appeal and police inquiries, Lee was found safe and well at a home at Old Toongabbie.
He has since been reunited with his relatives.


. [link to www.news.com.au]

Man 'scalped' as NT family feud reignites

A MAN has been scalped after a long-running feud in a remote Northern Territory town reignited.
A police spokesman told AAP extra officers had been sent to Yuendumu, about 300km from Alice Springs, following a disturbance near the town's health clinic involving 50-70 people on Saturday morning.
He said it was a "no-brainer" that the incident was linked to an ongoing feud between different family groups in the Aboriginal community.
Two injured people had to be airlifted to Alice Springs for treatment, including a man who appeared to have been scalped, Superintendent Peter Gordon told the ABC.
He said the skin had come away from the man's scalp.
The man remains in Alice Springs Hospital in a stable condition.
"A large group of people had gathered near the clinic and were visibly upset," Supt Gordon said.
"When police tried to calm the situation they had rocks thrown at them."
A spokesman said the additional police would stay put while they investigated the incident.
In 2010, some residents fled amid violent riots sparked by the fatal stabbing of a Yuendumu man in Warlpiri Town camp, in Alice Springs.
[link to www.news.com.au]

Three diggers wounded in Afghanistan
Three Australian soldiers have been wounded by a roadside bomb in southwest Afghanistan.

The special operations soldiers were wounded by an improvised explosive device (IED), which detonated midway through a mission on Thursday in northern Helmand, the Defence Department said on Saturday.

Two of the soldiers suffered serious blast and fragmentation wounds in the incident.

Chief of Joint Operations Lieutenant General Ash Power said the men were in a satisfactory medical condition.

The third soldier suffered minor wounds and is likely to return to full duties soon.

The two seriously wounded soldiers will return to Australia in the coming days, possibly through the Landstuhl Regional Medical Centre in Germany.

Two coalition soldiers were also wounded in the attack.

[link to news.ninemsn.com.au]

Hiya tassie

Hey I am glad you like it. Sorry I can't pm at the moment, bit of a glitch in the works and my account got accidently deleted

Oops

Could all my friends reading this please add me back into your friend lists and that will save me HEAPS of time, thanks xo

Awesome!!

Flavapor rocks, she has upgraded me!!!

Now I can pm etc again.

Type: Earthquake
2 hours ago
Magnitude: 4.2
DateTime: Saturday May 5 2012, 23:33:13 UTC
Region: Cook Strait, New Zealand
Depth: 31 km
Source: CSEM-EMSC Feed


This ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Wellington's tsunami risk.


HANK SCHOUTEN Last updated 05:00 19/03/2011


Tsunami generated by an earthquake in Cook Strait could sweep kilometres inland within three or four minutes, putting the lives of up to 170,000 Wellington residents at risk.

There would be no time for any warnings and people need to think now about how they can get to higher ground immediately after a strong quake, says Wellington Region Emergency Management officer Rian van Schalkwyk.

"The magnitude of that quake and tsunami in Japan is the sort of thing we can expect here. The moment there is a big local quake that is so strong that you can't stand upright, you need to get to higher ground or up in a building as quickly as possible. There is no time to hop in a car to drive away – just go up as quickly as possible.

"In Japan the quake was 200 kilometres offshore, but for us it could be 15km to 20km ..."

A tsunami caused by a quake that close "could be 15 metres high and it will come into the harbour and destroy everything in its path", he said.

The biggest threats were faults through Cook Strait and the Wairarapa coast and the possibility of huge landslides in the Cook Strait trench.

Mr van Schalkwyk said the tsunami triggered by the 8.2 magnitude quake on the Wairarapa Fault in 1855 was up to five metres high when it swept over Lyall Bay and Kilbirnie into Evans Bay.

A 10-metre wave struck Palliser Bay on the south Wairarapa coast. The tsunami also flooded Porirua Harbour, and hit Titahi Bay and the Kapiti Coast.

Mr van Schalkwyk said Greater Wellington regional council had drawn up maps showing evacuation zones for the most vulnerable areas. In the red, orange and yellow zones people need to be prepared to evacuate if there is a tsunami. The red zone is mainly for beach areas that could be hit by a one-metre tsunami generated thousands of kilometres away and during which people are advised to stay off the beaches.

The orange zone is based on a tsunami similar to that which happened in 1855, and the yellow zone is based on how far the devastation might extend if a 10-metre wave struck.

A tsunami of that size would threaten Wellington's commercial heart – the waterfront, the central business district and all the flat land as far south as the Basin Reserve, the suburbs of Island Bay, Lyall Bay, Kilbirnie, Miramar, Seatoun, Eastbourne, much of Lower Hutt, Titahi Bay, Porirua, Plimmerton, Paekakariki, Paraparaumu, Waikanae and Otaki.

[link to www.stuff.co.nz]

Very interesting artical.

Thanks T.

Type: Earthquake
10 hours ago
Magnitude: 2.1
DateTime: Sunday May 6 2012, 07:24:27 UTC
Region: West of Port Augusta.
Depth: 0 km
Source: GeoScience Australia

Thread: Is there anyone in Sydney CBD Aust. that would help me look for my son? UPDATE2

You may as well add me onto the list too :)

Mike, VK3VMS <-Ham radio callsign :)

i'm thinking it'll be wet

very wet

That is such a good idea Mike. Hope you get some more with radio's. Might be the only way to keep in touch soon.

Type: Earthquake
11 hours ago
Magnitude: 5
DateTime: Monday May 7 2012, 06:46:57 UTC
Region: Tonga
Depth: 35 km
Source: CSEM-EMSC Feed

Type: Earthquake
36 minutes ago
Magnitude: 5.1
DateTime: Monday May 7 2012, 17:49:40 UTC
Region: Fiji Region
Depth: 392 km
Source: CSEM-EMSC Feed

Thread: mini quakes in south australia

You should SHUT UP AND GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE! IT IS A TIME BOMB READY TO BLOW, ANY MINUTE. DORMANT GIANT VOLCANOS, THE PLATE IS MELTING IN THOSE PLACES, YOU'LL BE FRIED. OH FIERY LORDY HEAR MY PLEA, OH ONE THAT BURNS IN MIGTHY TENTACLES, AND RED BRIMSTONE WASHES THY BODY!