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There's that word again. "Heavy." Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?
People are dead and trapped under collapsed buildings in Kaikora and this is what upsets you?
Currently in Wellington. Was fucking shaky, seriously thought the building was about to collapse. This was ~500 km from the epicenter. We were evacuated and let back in. All the planning in the world doesn't prepare you for the real thing, the first thing you're meant to do is keep calm, and I sure as hell didn't. I sprinted right the fuck out of my apartment building, I have 4 levels above me, hiding under a table w…
Currently in Wellington. Was fucking shaky, seriously thought the building was about to collapse. This was ~500 km from the epicenter. We were evacuated and let back in. All the planning in the world doesn't prepare you for the real thing, the first thing you're meant to do is keep calm, and I sure as hell didn't. I sprinted right the fuck out of my apartment building, I have 4 levels above me, hiding under a table w…
Anyone know of a group or website which is tracking the incidence and intensity of earthquakes over time?
http://www.globalcmt.org/ Scroll to the bottom and look at the chart of cumulative energy (moment) release over time. This is probably the easiest visualization what you're looking for without going to scientific papers. It only goes back to the 1970s though. The big steps are the Sumatran earthquakes and Tohoku (Japan). There were some equally big steps in the 1950s. As far as I know (and I do this professionally) t…
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He is quoting the movie "Back to the Future" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/quotes?item=qt0416301
It doesn't matter, it's not appropriate when people are trapped under collapsed buildings and are dead.
Anyone know what the lights were about? http://www.newshub.co.nz/nznews/strange-lights-during-earthq... or is it a hoax. I'm in Palmerston North a long way away, but that was the biggest quake I've felt.
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It doesn't matter, it's not appropriate when people are trapped under collapsed buildings and are dead.
You seem to know something that others don't. What's your source on that?
Could there be any connection to the moon's current proximity to Earth? Does anyone know to what extent the moon's gravity can influence earthquakes? Tides are one thing, but it seems plausible that the moon being closer to earth than it has been in 68 years could be moving the plates a bit more than usual.
So it might cause some faults that are about to rupture to release a bit earlier than otherwise, but it's not a useful predictor of anything.
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Given what ChCh went through, I really hope Wellington takes quake-proofing its more risk-prone buildings seriously. I say that every time an earthquake causes damage there, but still the building owners ask for more time and the council gives it.
Yeah Wellington has always taken it seriously, I remember the building where I worked in 2002 had a sticker on it by the council saying the building wasn't earthquake safe. The buildings here are much more earthquake safe than Christchurch but also the damage potential is much higher.