Thanks, Ann. It's interesting that different agencies seem to calculate the same quake as different magnitudes. They're thinking at the moment that it was two quakes with the first triggering a second larger one but it'll be a while before they untangle all of the data.
Just getting a good wobble now, must be a fairly decent aftershock. Cheers, Dave > On Nov 14, 2016, at 12:33 PM, ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just now looking here after hearing on our news in the USA they said 7.8 in > New Zealand ! wow! > > Glad it wasn't any closer to you... didn't know what your WHEEEE post was > about earlier when I skimmed - > > very busy here but certainly wanted to say something to you , Dave... > > ann > > > On 11/13/2016 4:15 PM, Brian Walters wrote: >> I heard about the quake just before we went to bed last night - glad to >> hear that Christchurch seems to have escaped serious damage. I wondered >> about Kaikoura - I remember it as a beautiful coastal town with majestic >> snow-capped mountains to the west. I hope damage there is minimal and >> that no lives have been lost. >> >> >> Cheers >> >> Brian >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Brian Walters >> Western Sydney Australia >> http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016, at 08:07 AM, David Mann wrote: >>> Thanks for the thoughts, everyone. GNS revised their reading to 7.5 so >>> it was a pretty big one. I went back to bed around 3am and haven't >>> noticed anything since. It's nice when it's far enough away that you >>> don't get aftershocks waking you up every few minutes. >>> >>> Looks like there's a bit of destruction around the Kaikoura region. >>> Might be a while before the roads reopen up there as there are a couple >>> of broken bridges and impressive landslides. >>> >>> Tsunami-wise we may have dodged a bullet as the area off the Kaikoura >>> coast is known to be prone to underwater landslides. A small one was >>> generated and looking at a tide gauge it appears that the sea bed may >>> have been lifted by about 700mm (27.5") by the quake. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Dave >>> >>>> On Nov 14, 2016, at 7:11 AM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Glad to hear your are safe. >>>> Sounds like a real disaster. >>>> >>>> Dan Matyola >>>> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >>>> >>>> On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 7:45 AM, David Mann <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Just reporting in safe & well after another decent shake. It wasn't too >>>>> intense but seemed to go on for a long time. >>>>> >>>>> GNS have it at 6.6 but USGS say 7.4. It was a little way north from here >>>>> but was enough to wake up half the country. Our baby slept right through, >>>>> daddy will be awake for a while yet :) We're feeling the larger >>>>> aftershocks >>>>> but they're pretty gentle by the time they reach us. I don't expect any >>>>> damage to our place. >>>>> >>>>> I really would prefer it if these damn things would happen during the day! >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Dave >>>>> -- >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
