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Post by OasisNZ on Oct 4, 2007 7:23:08 GMT 12
We just had a bit of a tremor here, not so large that you could feel the ground move, but something in the cabinet was shaking, at first we thought it was a large truck going by on the highway, lastest maybe 20 seconds or so... YUCK!
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Post by OasisNZ on Oct 4, 2007 7:38:21 GMT 12
www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/quakes/latest.htmlMagnitude 5.6, Thursday, October 4 2007 at 8:15 am (NZDT), 40 km north of Hanmer Springs. Quake Details Information about this earthquake: Reference Number 2802756/G Universal Time October 3 2007 at 19:15 NZ Daylight Time Thursday, October 4 2007 at 8:15 am Latitude, Longitude 42.16°S, 172.88°E Focal Depth 70 km Richter magnitude 5.6 Region Marlborough Location * 40 km north of Hanmer Springs * 40 km south of St Arnaud * 100 km south of Nelson * 150 km north of Christchurch widely felt in south island
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Post by mab on Oct 4, 2007 8:40:35 GMT 12
You poor thing, are you alright? Do you need to sit down? What a big quake, must of given yas such a fright. Na, im only taking the piss. lmao Our lot down here on sunday were good ones, the first one was 7.2 and the second one 4 hours later was 6.8. I can remember years ago when I lived in Te Anau when the big one happened, I was on the street and you could see the road rolling like waves, wish i was stoned it would of been fuxing amazing.
Wait till summer starts kicking in, I reckon we will be getting more.
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Post by OasisNZ on Oct 4, 2007 8:47:28 GMT 12
They give me the blardy willies as you don't know if it's gonna be "The big one", couldn't really feel it here, just the rattling...
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Post by mab on Oct 4, 2007 14:21:58 GMT 12
They dont worry me at all, we use to get quite a few in Te Anau and Gore when I was growing up, but I reckon it was a lot hotter back then as well. Remember when you were a child and in summer you couldnt walk along the footpath in barefeet as it would be too hot, the the tar on the road would stick to ya feet and butterflies were everywhere. I WANT MY CHILDHOOD BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by ladeda on Oct 4, 2007 17:24:15 GMT 12
I felt it strongly on the 4th floor of the hospital! It started off slow, then got really shakey, then tailed off for at least 5min. I was on the phone to someone in Blenheim who felt it only after I had felt it.
I remember a really big earthquake when I was barely 5yrs old and only now do I realise it was the 1968 Inangahua quake.
The most interesting museum I've ever visited is the Murchison Museum. The two sisters who run it are at least 100yrs old and can tell stories of the 1929 earthquake as well as the 1968 one. I think the 1929 was 7.8 and the sisters tell of being at primary school when the quake hit. They all rushed outside (not recommended these days and then the schoolhouse was demolished by falling debris/land slide. Without transport and blocked valleys/roads, some locals walked for three days to get to the main town of Murchison.
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Post by OasisNZ on Oct 4, 2007 17:37:30 GMT 12
Are you that old? You don't look a day over 40... Ironic that the hospital sits right on the faultline, huh? The Murchison quake was amazing, there are huge boulders, like big as a house huge, laying in the middle of flat land a fair way from the hills where they apparently "rolled" to in the earthquake, they must have been riding the waves in the ground! I still run outside in an earthquake, don't fancy the house falling in on me.
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Post by ladeda on Oct 4, 2007 17:42:10 GMT 12
Are you that old? You don't look a day over 40... Neither do you!
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Post by OasisNZ on Oct 4, 2007 18:02:37 GMT 12
Are you that old? You don't look a day over 40... Neither do you! OI!!!
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Post by OasisNZ on Oct 5, 2007 18:53:08 GMT 12
Was talking to my Mums friend today who remembers the 1968 Inungahua Earthquake, he was a railway worker in Greymouth and even remembers the exact time it struck, he says it felt as though someone had taken a hold of diagonal corners of the house, and given it a good shake for about 26 seconds, the time was 5.26...
He was part of the work crew that worked to repair the railway, apparently the ground kept shaking for weeks after the major quake, it some places the rocks were still being shaken out of the hills as quickly as they could dig it away, there would be another tremor and more rock would fall!
They worked 12 hour days through the whole thing, that rail simply HAD to be repaired, there were many interesting stories to be told today, I love talking to these these old diggers, they could all write a book worth reading in my opinion.
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