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Thread ID: 147399 2018-12-05 07:38:00 7.5 Earthquake --- Near Youse Guys? SurferJoe46 (51) PC World Chat
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1456269 2018-12-05 07:38:00 LINK: earthquake.usgs.gov

M7.5 Earthquake - south-east of the Loyalty Islands
Preliminary Report Magnitude 7.5
Date-Time

5 Dec 2018 04:18:08 UTC
5 Dec 2018 15:18:08 near epicenter
4 Dec 2018 20:18:08 standard time in your timezone

Location 21.968S 169.446E
Depth 10 km
Distances

168.2 km (104.3 mi) ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia
254.4 km (157.7 mi) ESE of W�, New Caledonia
298.9 km (185.3 mi) E of Mont-Dore, New Caledonia
309.9 km (192.2 mi) E of Dumb�a, New Caledonia
311.1 km (192.9 mi) E of Noum�a, New Caledonia

Location Uncertainty Horizontal: 8.0 km; Vertical 1.8 km
Parameters Nph = 119; Dmin = 310.0 km; Rmss = 0.98 seconds; Gp = 20°
Version =
Event ID us 1000i2gt


MAP BELOW:: it LOOKS close to Upsidedown Land.....

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SurferJoe46 (51)
1456270 2018-12-05 07:47:00 Not close at all the Pacific is a big place gary67 (56)
1456271 2018-12-05 08:23:00 The Alaskan one is closer to you than that one is to us. fred_fish (15241)
1456272 2018-12-05 18:57:00 The distance from Auckland to the earthquake epicentre is almost a couple of hundred miles longer than it is from say, Billings to Los Angeles. WalOne (4202)
1456273 2018-12-05 20:12:00 The distance from Auckland to the earthquake epicentre is almost a couple of hundred miles longer than it is from say, Billings to Los Angeles.

The difference, WalOne, is that the likelihood of a tidal wave between Billings and Los Angeles is vanishingly small, but...
John H (8)
1456274 2018-12-05 21:30:00 Since the earthquakes here in Christchurch this site is what I and lots of people look at everyday, Joe:

http://www.canterburyquakelive.co.nz/
zqwerty (97)
1456275 2018-12-05 23:34:00 7.5 Earthquake --- Near Youse Guys?

No.
Miles away.

But we get plenty of our own.
piroska (17583)
1456276 2018-12-06 07:36:00 Since the earthquakes here in Christchurch this site is what I and lots of people look at everyday, Joe:

http://www.canterburyquakelive.co.nz/

I see..... Canterbury Tales.................
SurferJoe46 (51)
1456277 2018-12-06 18:40:00 http://www.canterburyquakelive.co.nz/

Or this if you really want to be paranoid:

http://quakelive.co.nz/

never mind Ch/ch, most of NZ gets them, considering we're right on a plate.
piroska (17583)
1456278 2018-12-06 21:56:00 Not really true piroska, Christchurch was very badly damaged by the series of earthquakes it endured. The results are worse than bombs being dropped (except for nuclear of course) because with a bomb you can see the crater and know where the damage will most likely be but the earthquakes damaged everything unexpectedly like underground drains, water reticulation, cracked pipes randomly, raised and lowered the land, mostly where you see bridges that you have to climb up a small slope to cross it isn't the bridge that's risen it's the ground that's fallen, same with drain inspection covers.

Thousands of buildings were rendered unusable and dangerous to enter.

We always had tremors here but the earthquakes were another thing altogether. Life changing, causing a re-evaluation of life values and priorities. I have read about earthquakes but until you are in one for real you can't really appreciate how devastating they are.

There was a tendency after the Chch for the people in the rest of the country to dismiss the continuous coverage and want new news which happened quite soon with the Fukushima event.

After almost 10 years Christchurch central city and lots of suburbs are still an utter mess, especially the roads.
zqwerty (97)
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