New Zealand Earthquakes, need your opinion, page 1

This all happened in just 7 days.

Not much news on the matter, TV reports, just saying where they happened and some damage caused, but that's it. So someone may have an expert opinion in these recent events.

Many of these are aftershocks

www.geonet.org.nz...

You would probably receive good input on this subject from ATS users "MoorfNZ" ,"Muzzy" and "aorAki" as they are the resident New Zealand earthquake experts.

Also, you may want to bring it up in this thread here:

www.abovetopsecret.com...

reply to post by Wookiep

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Don't forget muzzy - he's notch and rocks and also aorAki who is actually in the business of faults and quakes - Sorry got to give credit to all that is due.

reply to post by Anmarie96

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Ah yes, very true. I've edited my post to add Muzzy and aorAki!

Thanks for mentioning me

So what do you want to know?.

Surprisingly its all pretty normal, even all the aftershocks around Christchurch from last Septembers 7.1 quake
Theres actually way more going on than what is shown on that link.
Have a look here (if you already haven't) this is based on data from the same people, just presented in a different format.
seabreeze.wordpress.com...

And there is even more going on than what is shown on that page, some quakes in the smaller range <3.0Mag take some time to locate their co-ordinates and magnitude, what is shown on the map is preliminary only, in a week or so the numbers will be likley double that, 40-60 per day. .

Normally active areas that are pretty quiet at the moment are offshore Matata and the Wanganui Basin

If the Christchurch quakes interest you this site covers it well quake.crowe.co.nz...

reply to post by MoorfNZ

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Not sure about the Chatham Rise, from memory there have been half a dozen earthquakes along there in the last 12 months but didn't seem unusual. Th biggest quake in the CI itself was a 5 in 1999 and a 5 in 2000 and there was a 5 on the Rise between NZ & CI in 1981, a 5 to the north of the Rise in 1961 and two of them in 1960 and 1 in 1941, info gets sparse prior to that.
I can't find the press release but someone in the know in the early days after the quake said that the Plate Boundry of the Pacific/Australian Plate had shifted down from Marlborough to Canterbury. Was it Quigley?

Actually if you look on Google Earth, and trace the Greendale Fault up through Christchurch and out to sea to the NE it lines right up with the Pegusus Canyon and the Kaikoura Canyon Greendale Fault Trace KMZ
I think that could be the spot to watch for future big quakes, there were 2x5's o/s Kaikoura in 2008 on the same day, that may have been the start of your boundry shift
All just theory though

reply to post by ahnggk

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No problem.
That was a pretty decent sized quake at Rotorua, it was revised up to 3.744ML, felt right across the North Island as you might have seen on Geonet site www.geonet.org.nz...

was that you filled in the report from Manukau, Auckland? they gave you a MM3 for the description you gave (Felt indoors as a light vibration. Hanging objects may swing slightly.)

If your'e off to ChCh you better get your teeth checked for any loose fillings theres gonna be some rattling there for a while yet, probably another 6 months at least based on previous NZ quakes this size.

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