Earthquake
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Seem to go on for a few minutes where I am in Chch. Nothing broken this time for us this time unlike February where plenty fell over haha.
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Crikey.
Look after yourselves peeps.
Initial shock 7.5 (!!!) according to Geonet.
4 "severe" aftershocks 3 of which were 6 or better.
Some pretty large tsunami activity too.
2 confirmed fatalities.
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Reports of "earthquake lights".
Interesting and controversial phenomenon:
Video apparently from this morning as below
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@booboo said in Earthquake:
@booboo said in Earthquake:
Initial shock 7.5 (!!!) according to Geonet.
USGS has it at 7.8
The numbers bounce around until they get filters on the stations and do a bit of work. Magnitudes are bloody hard to define accurately .
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Meanwhile there are some real c*nts out there
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@booboo said in Earthquake:
Reports of "earthquake lights".
Interesting and controversial phenomenon:
Video apparently from this morning as below
i went outside during the shaking, and there were lights in the sky in the north island at the time. looked like lightning to me, not that i was paying particularly close attention - more checking geonet to see how far away it was - then saw south island and thought oh fuck... looks like we got off bloody lightly given the strength of it.
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@Virgil said in Earthquake:
Meanwhile there are some real c*nts out there
The lowest of the low. WTF is wrong with some people?
Stay safe all, I felt it all the way up in Aucks which is insane given its location. That's a serious shake.
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@reprobate said in Earthquake:
@Virgil you would hope that someone finds those people and administers a well-deserved hiding.
Marshall law should be called, that allows shooting of looting scum like this doesn't it?
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@Mokey said in Earthquake:
I couldn't believe it when I read it was centred in the SI. I'm central NI and my whole house was shuddering and creaking for a full minute.
Hope everyone down Ta$man/Chch way are ok.
Mokey, can you assure us that activity at home was actually quake related!! Not a new... umm book release!!?
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It was pretty gnarly but kind of smooth rather than the really jerky/jarring quakes we sometimes get. Super strong though and it lasted for too long! Folks are out in Paekak and strong quakes on sand will give you motion sickness! neighbour almost wore a tsunami from Dad's pool!
GeoNet Quakes - Severe and above
Earthquake light - Wikipedia
