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Post by richardw on Nov 13, 2016 18:45:34 GMT -5
Just to let everyone that myself and family are ok I cant believe we got away with no damage at all,nothing fallen out of cupboards,stonetunnelhouse has no creaks, the paintings on the walls are still straight, i even have a bucket still sitting up on top of a step ladder, yet we are only 30kms away from the epicenter. I put it down to being on alluvial shingle plains which absorbs a lot of the earthquakes energy. Anyway bloody hard to sleep after that so feeling a bit buggered today. quakemap.co.nz/www.stuff.co.nz/ |
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Post by billw on Nov 13, 2016 20:01:33 GMT -5
The first thing I thought of was your stone walled greenhouse! Glad to hear you suffered no damage.
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Post by steev on Nov 13, 2016 22:15:51 GMT -5
Glad you were only awakened.
I was supposed to go to Guatemala one January, but got detained during which a 7+ hit, doing significant damage, much due to crappy construction; a month later, I was staying there with friends; ~7AM, I heard a "train" coming, then a jolt; woke me right up, but I stayed abed; another "train", another jolt; I decided that I wasn't getting up yet, but if I heard another "train", I was out of that adobe-brick and tile-roofed house, regardless of being buck-naked.
Being Californian, I tend to consider earthquakes run-of-the-mill; good for blowing a bit of plaque out of the arteries, when the heart goes "boom", but mostly just "surf's up"; rock and roll!
Tornadoes, tsunamies, hurricanes, blizzards, volcanoes; now, that's some scary stuff to me. I wonder how Oklahoma is doing with their fracking-induced earthquakes.
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Post by templeton on Nov 13, 2016 22:27:03 GMT -5
look out for them aftershocks, richard.
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Post by richardw on Nov 13, 2016 23:47:41 GMT -5
The first thing I thought of was your stone walled greenhouse! Glad to hear you suffered no damage. I made a point of building it with heaps of fence wire netting encased in the internal structure, still this quake was not the the 'big one' though, the main ring of fire faultline is still due anytime so i'm now confident that it still say up right. |
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Post by richardw on Nov 13, 2016 23:50:23 GMT -5
look out for them aftershocks, richard. T Some have been horrible, a massive thump like a truck hitting the house. |
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Post by steev on Nov 14, 2016 0:01:50 GMT -5
Generally, the aftershocks are mostly scary because one is already freaked; it's usually the initial slip (releasing the built-up tension) that is really scary, having no warning. It's all "Hello! This is happening; deal with it". They are usually less severe, the major pent-up blockage having been released. That's the good news.
The bad news, of course, is that in the Pacific Ring of Fire, there are tectonic forces that continue to build these tensions, which occasionally are released. IMHO, the more often, the better. Rock and roll, Baby! If I'm lucky enough to be doing my sweetheart when a big 'un rolls through, it's all "Did the Earth move for you, darlin'?"
The predictions of "The Big One" re-visiting San Francisco (the whole Bay Area) keep going up, as the time since the last "Big One" increases. It doesn't matter; one makes one's decision to live here, or to prepare for earthquake, regardless. We are tiny creatures, subject to planetary forces. We make our choices and live with them.
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Post by prairiegarden on Nov 14, 2016 3:15:02 GMT -5
Glad you arnd yours are all right,
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Post by richardw on Nov 14, 2016 3:44:10 GMT -5
Thats right steev, we just learn to deal with it, but its always in the back of the mind,"what if it happens how".
The section of 'ring of fire that runs through NZ is the fastest moving of the plate boundary anywhere around the Pacific ring while its heavily locked also, they reckon when it goes it could produce between 8 & 9 magnitude scale and last for 5 to 6 mins... something to look forward to hey.
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Post by templeton on Nov 14, 2016 3:47:10 GMT -5
I'll put up with the snakes and spiders, thanks Just saw the pics on the news, pretty heavy, richardwI'd be staying out of the stone greenhouse for a while... T |
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Post by philagardener on Nov 14, 2016 6:45:08 GMT -5
Glad to hear you are OK! That was a pretty large one. Any notice from the animals before it hit?
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Post by reed on Nov 14, 2016 8:46:23 GMT -5
Yes! glad your OK. Strongest quake I ever felt was about a 3.5 spooky enough.
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Post by richardw on Nov 14, 2016 13:13:13 GMT -5
Glad to hear you are OK! That was a pretty large one. Any notice from the animals before it hit?
Yes, my middle girl was out in her tent, she reckoned about 5 seconds before every aftershock the birds would fly out of there porches then back in after it had stopped.
A woman down the road was saying yesterday that her horses wont come near her now and spent the whole day just standing in the corner of the paddock |
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Post by richardw on Nov 14, 2016 13:22:50 GMT -5
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Post by steev on Nov 14, 2016 13:44:04 GMT -5
Obviously, a helicopter.
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