Re: New Zealand Herald: more than 1500 aftershocks
Posted by Chris in Tampa on 11/16/2016, 5:28 am
New Zealand is such a geologically active place, but even for them this is extreme. So many places where the land split apart. This would have been catastrophic if it had been nearer to Christchurch.



"The elevation of Monday's quake from a magnitude 7.5 to 7.8 makes it compare in size only with four other New Zealand quakes in the past 150 years.

They are the 8.2 Wairarapa Earthquake in 1855, the Dusky Sound quake in 2009, the Napier Earthquake in 1931 and the Murchison Earthquake in 1929."

"New Zealand's biggest earthquakes

8.2 - Wairarapa, January 23, 1855
7.8 - North Canterbury, November 14, 2016
7.8 - Murchison, June 17, 1929
7.8 - Hawke's Bay, February 3, 1931
7.8 - Dusky Sound, July 15, 2009
7.6 - Pahiatua, March 5, 1934"

From:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11749401



It may be months before roads and rail service is available to Kaikoura.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/86466507/wellingtonchristchurch-ferry-link-considered-as-sh1-quake-repairs-cause-freight-chaos
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