A large 5.7 magnitude earthquake shook the top of the South Island and lower North Island at 7.19pm today. The epicentre was 60 km deep and felt strongly in Marlborough and Wellington. A TVNZ report told of how highrise windows were shattered in the capital and apartments being evacuated, police said. “there has been damage…
A magnitude 4.3 jolted the Wellington area at 5.27 this afternoon. This from geonet.org.nz Reference Number 3580231 Universal Time September 16 2011 at 5:27 NZ Standard Time Friday, September 16 2011 at 5:27 pm Latitude, Longitude 41.13°S, 174.69°E Focal Depth 50 km Richter magnitude 4.3 Region Wellington Location 10 km west of Porirua 20 km…
Do you know the effects that a major earthquake will have in Wellington, capital of New Zealand? Following on from yesterday’s blog about the 1996 documentary, in which cogent warnings about the effects of an earthquake in Christchurch were proven unnervingly accurate, we’d like to re-publish a blog we posted in early October last year.…
Whilst the people of devastated Christchurch are still enduring aftershocks, other places in New Zealand have also been shaken by quakes in recent days. In addition to a number of recent quakes in Wellington there was a 4.9 magnitude shallow quake off Kaikoura yesterday that was widely felt on the east coast of the South…
Yesterday we covered United Future’s release of the list of Wellington’s 808 potentially earthquake prone buildings. Mr Dunne said “I do not think people will behave in a knee-jerk way with this information, but they do have a right to know and make informed decisions about whether they wish to be in buildings that are…
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