Quote from: Menial;1307163Yes quite, I'll be thinking of you between finishing my brioche and starting my new glass of pinot. Chin-chin.Rather.Pinot with a Brioche, WTF?Quote from: Rex;1307160Fuck you're a faggot AlexYour a fag.
Yes quite, I'll be thinking of you between finishing my brioche and starting my new glass of pinot. Chin-chin.Rather.
Fuck you're a faggot Alex
Jesus fuck, anyone feel that?I'm in Palmy and I felt it.
# Reference Number: 3367973# NZST: Tue, Sep 7 2010 10:03 am# Magnitude: 3.6# Depth: 40 km# Details: 30 km east of Waipawa
I couldnt get to sleep after the 5.2 at 11, then the one at 3am wakes me up ><
I can come help map grim!
The earthquake produced a 22km-long surface rupture and up to 4m of horizontal displacement in alluvial terraces that were deposited about 16,000 years ago at the end of the last glaciation.When the last ice-age ended, rivers brought large amounts of gravel from the high country and distributed it throughout Canterbury, many meters thick in some places."Before Saturday, there was nothing in the landscape that would have suggested there was an active fault beneath the Darfield and Rolleston areas," said Kelvin Berryman, Manager of the Natural Hazards Platform at GNS Science."Geologists have no information on when the fault last ruptured as it was unknown until last weekend. "All we can say at this stage is that this newly revealed fault has not ruptured since the gravels were deposited about 16,000 years ago.""It is highly likely there are other 'hidden' faults around New Zealand which may be capable of producing large earthquakes in the future," Dr Berryman said.The fault had been accumulating stress for thousands of years. Faults fail catastrophically when stresses exceed a certain threshold.
Saturday's earthquake produced the strongest ground-shaking ever recorded in an earthquake in New Zealand. The highest ground-shaking measurement of 1.25 times the strength of gravity was recorded at Greendale near the epicentre.
Much is being made in the media of this as being a "new fault". This is probably not a "new fault" in the sense that the earthquake caused a previously unruptured part of the Earth's crust to rupture. My suspicion is that this fault has had earthquakes in the past, but has a sufficiently long recurrence interval (time between earthquakes) such that any prior evidence of past earthquakes was not visible on the surface prior to this earthquake. Much of the Canterbury Plains consist of sediments with soil profiles that suggest the surfaces are ~16,000 years old (person. commun. P. Almond, Lincoln Uni) - if these show no prior evidence of faulting then a reasonable conclusion, as proposed by GNS scientists, is that there had not been an earthquake on this fault in the last 16,000 years prior to this event. However, given the active nature of Canterbury's major rivers, it is possible that the oldest surface cut by the fault may be less than 16,000 years old, and may be as young as 6.000 yrs old. In that case, it is possible that the recurrence interval on the fault is much shorter than 16,000 yrs.
Yeah, I couldn't access it this morning...bandwidth exceeded...(his, not ours).5.2 Rii...that's reasonable...http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/quakes/latest.html
# Reference Number: 3367989# NZST: Tue, Sep 7 2010 10:48 am# Magnitude: 5.2# Depth: 15 km# Details: 20 km south-east of Porangahau
i had kinda hope speakman had died, what a pity
errrr, all my games were destroyed. ANSWER THE QUESTION!
got some good news today. unlike a fair few workplaces, i'll be getting paid for the days we were closed. comes out of annual leave, but at least i'm not going to be short. grim, i'd love to help out with the liquifaction survey, but we don't have any out this way :/
