Earthquaking

That was appaling from JC. I don't agree with the Moon Man's theories and I don't intentionally follow them, but he was very hard done by in that sham of an interview. And shame on JC for interupting whilst MM was trying to give his sympathies too.

I was in Queensgate at the time. Really surreal for an entire mall, busy and loud as per usual, to fall almost entirely quiet. Many places around Wellington still have their signs up from notifying customers of their observation plans.

sh*t man that little earthquake we had now was some next level sh*t,freaked me out haha

Yeah, that was a good little shake.

funny how a normal sized earthquake freaks me out all of a sudden despite living in wellington

I think he invited him on in good faith, and then his emotions got the better of him and he let rip far more than he should have as a professional. Its understandable given the circumstances though.

I feel for the Christchurch people who came up to Wellington to escape the aftershocks and just felt that quake.

hey im 25

I tend to freeze, but this time was all action with the kids in tow...

Hard to imagine what the Cantabs go through everytime they have a jolt.

Mrs Iffy just arrived. She says meh... only 4.5

That one near Wellington was a baby compared to most aftershocks in Christchurch. They've had two there since that probably felt bigger than the one here.

Reference Number: 3472177
NZDT: Tue, Mar 1 2011 10:42 pm
Magnitude: 4.6
Depth: 5 km
Details: 10 km west of Lyttelton
   
Reference Number: 3472166
NZDT: Tue, Mar 1 2011 10:12 pm
Magnitude: 3.6
Depth: 2 km
Details: 10 km north of Lyttelton

Reference Number: 3472164
NZDT: Tue, Mar 1 2011 10:07 pm
Magnitude: 4.5
Depth: 40 km
Details: 20 km north-west of Wellington

Biggie in Chch in the last 15-20 by the looks of it.

I-I-Iffy2011-03-01 23:14:18

Did the preceeeding 2km deep 3.6er feel as significant as the 5km deep 4.6er I-I-Iffy?

2km is an outrageously shallow focus.

Hadn't felt a thing all day until 10:42. That's the weird bit; we're 20km west of the city in Rolleston and aren't even noticing the vast majority of aftershocks, totally different to the Darfield quake and its (continuing) series. Narrow depth=short range maybe?

It was just the earthquake room at Te Papa.

JC couldve won that without resorting to interrupting him. Only made himself look like the idiot really.

I'm only about 5km west of Iffy and I slept through all aftershocks last night. However this mornings smaller one was enough to make the lights flicker and shake in the cow shed about and trip out 2 irrigation pumps.

Legends of League game next Thursday night at Mt. Smart to raise cash for Christchurch:

Last night was a good shakeup. But had been feeling at least one of those a day, sometimes more, since Tuesday.

Jeremy �the sign language guy� Borland at each quake press conference is doing an excellent job signing for the deaf, but I can't help feeling exhausted from just watching him signing away. He must be quite fit.

The Eastbourne ferry got swamped by a wave this morning and some students from St Andrews who had relocated up to Scots were onboard.  They must feel like a dog's breakfast (or some other mixed metaphor).

true, it does
Downey262011-03-02 13:06:58

Go Simon Dallow...

"If you see a rabbit, shoot it - they can feed a small family for a few days"

The dust is unbelieveable. It's in my eyes, my teeth, my throat and in my hair. This place is a mess. You don't have an idea of what it is like here until you see it for yourself. Stay strong Christchurch!

My nephew is down there at the moment and he too was saying the NW winds have really whipped up a dust storm.

Quick, where's the Holy Handgrenade!

Did anyone else just feel that or was it just another tank driving by? I have been drinking...

Gets hard to tell sometimes huh. Even when you're sober. I remember after the 7.1, after a week of getting about 3 or 4 hours of sleep every night sometimes I wasn't sure if the ground was moving or it was just me.

I've been imagining a few.

Getting my head around the intensity scale, Mercalli 8 is violent, Mercalli 5 is strong, as opposed to the Richter scale.

Yes I would have, infact i did, took a person home to my place and then drove them from Opawa to as close to Sumner as I could.

One thing that I've learned in the last 6 months is that it all comes down to where you're standing in relation to the shake. I'm guessing that ground shaking intensity was recorded in Christchurch city. During the 7.1 shake, given how close I was to the epicenter (about 5km), it was freaking intense, however during the 6.3 I was about 30km away and in all honesty wasn't quite as intense. Everyone who I've talked to in town says the 6.3 was more violent but you have to remember how much closer it was to them. Moving the CBD south west to get away from a higher ground shaking intesity rating probably wouldn't do much. There are lots of other things I've learned too from reading on geonet, like how different underground formations have different affects on the shaking. Very interesting.

I should point out that I wasn't in the same place for both earthquakes, first one I was at home and second one I was at Bush Inn, about 30km away from home in the direction of the second shake.
timmymadden2011-03-03 19:31:42

Interesting item on Campbell a few minutes ago where a geo-scientist said (paraphrasing) that the earthquake energy was created under Lyttelton Harbour, expanded and passed through the solid rock of the port hills and then compressed as it hit the flat ground of the city. Then it reflected off the solid ground of the Canterbury Plains back towards the softer central city and eastern suburbs which wobbled around like a jelly for some time after the original fault had stopped moving.