QUAKE HITS N.Z.

jaywapti

6.2 earthquake hits N.Z. i have no other info as of now.

JAY

NN

das68

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/30/new-zealand-earthquake-62-magnitude-shake-halts-parliament

Civil Defence Minister Kris Fa’afoi said civil emergency groups were actively checking the country for damage but there had been no reports of anything “major”, nor injuries or fatalities.

The quake struck at 3.13pm local time and GeoNet has so far reported more than 15,000 ‘felt’ reports, with the strongest shaking reported in Wellington, Christchurch and Nelson.

Big Chief

I hope our Kiwi friends are OK.

tennmike

Hope no major damage is found or people were hurt. That would be one heck of an early wakeup call.

das68

https://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/108224978/New-Zealand-earthquake-rattles-North-and-South-Island

More than 15,000 people reported feeling the strong magnitude-6.2 earthquake that struck central New Zealand on Tuesday afternoon.

The quake was initially reported as 6.7M. It struck at a depth of 207 kilometres about 25km south-west of Taumarunui, at around 3.13pm.

In Wellington, Parliament was suspended on the advice of Civil Defence.

Civil Defence Minister Kris Faafoi said there were no reports of damage or increased volcanic activity.

Seismologist Dr John Ristau said the nature of deep quakes meant their effects spread far more widely.

"In these deep quakes, it takes a while for all the energy released to get up to the surface. By the time it does, it has already spread a fair distance from the quake's location," Ristau said.

There were no reports of significant damage caused by the quake, and Civil Defense advised there was no tsunami threat to New Zealand.

tennmike

Sounds good so far as to damage or injuries to people.

das68

Hope so.

orchidman

Was there an earthquake?

Didnt feel a thing.  Thanks for your concern though.

zorba

6.2? Enough to get your attention, not enough to be concerned with.

tennmike

orchidman said:

Was there an earthquake?

Didnt feel a thing.  Thanks for your concern though.

Rumor on the internet said there was one.
Glad to hear you're O.K. and that it looks like a non event, so far. We'uns tend to worry when our friends are, or appear to be, in harms way.

Miss Mary

Christchurch is on the south island, Alec lives on the north island, near Aukland.  Glad to hear he didn't even know about it.

olesniper

Wambli Ska said:

orchidman said:

Was there an earthquake?

Didnt feel a thing.  Thanks for your concern though.

Yes there was, your date was not as good as you thought she was... 😎

The vibrations from the quake, were swimming upstream, against the merlot.

ojr

Must of been very minor or deep as we never felt anything down our way
thanks though Gentlemen.