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| Thread ID: 106629 | 2010-01-16 08:06:00 | Wellington Tsunami | hamstar (4) | PC World Chat |
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| 849298 | 2010-01-17 02:29:00 | For those interested in disasters, read "Magnitude Eight Plus" by Rodney Grapes, published by Victoria University Press in 2000. This is subtitled "NZ's Biggest Earthquake" and deals with the 23 January 1855 earthquake centred on Wellington & Wairarapa. Such an event today would almost certainly be extremely destructive and would probably give rise to a tsumani. | Brucem (8688) | ||
| 849299 | 2010-01-17 02:38:00 | WTF? Any news peeople? We watched a few minutes of that program last night and SWMBO said she thought some people would find it upsetting as they would think it was true. My reply: "Anyone can see it is not the real tv news. No one would be fooled unless they are stoned or something." :banana Good going Hamstar. :clap |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 849300 | 2010-01-17 03:13:00 | For those interested in disasters, read "Magnitude Eight Plus" by Rodney Grapes, published by Victoria University Press in 2000. This is subtitled "NZ's Biggest Earthquake" and deals with the 23 January 1855 earthquake centred on Wellington & Wairarapa. Such an event today would almost certainly be extremely destructive and would probably give rise to a tsumani. Thats why I am surprised house values in Wellington, especially in those low lying areas in Wellington around the airport, are so high, perhaps the highest in NZ. Wasn't all that area underwater before the 1855 earthquake anyway. Basically after a really big earthquake in Wellington, a lot of Wellington possibily wouldn't be rebuilt (at least not for many years), and the government would probably move up to Auckland. Parliment is base isolated , but I don't think that system would cope with a really huge earthquake. |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 849301 | 2010-01-17 03:31:00 | Thats why I am surprised house values in Wellington, especially in those low lying areas in Wellington around the airport, are so high, perhaps the highest in NZ. Wasn't all that area underwater before the 1855 earthquake anyway. Basically after a really big earthquake in Wellington, a lot of Wellington possibily wouldn't be rebuilt (at least not for many years), and the government would probably move up to Auckland. Parliment is base isolated , but I don't think that system would cope with a really huge earthquake. They would move parliament up to Auckland which would then have one of it's long dormant volcanoes erupt.;) |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 849302 | 2010-01-17 05:01:00 | I think we all just want one really localised BIG earthquake in Wellington - something to swallow up the Beehive (when Parliament is sitting, of course!), but leave the surrounding area untouched . A man can dream, can't he? :) |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 849303 | 2010-01-17 05:15:00 | Thanks for the heads-up, paulw - just scheduled it on the TiVo via Genie! Part one of two... The second one must be the following week - can't see it yet because TiVo EPG only goes out 14 days... I'm sure it won't be as good as the original movie though... I saw it last week on a HD download. Not too bad actually. The events have been brought up to date. Nice to see something that was shown on BBC HD last week in December being shown here so early. Bad thing is that TVNZ in the usual way it does things is showing it in SD.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 849304 | 2010-01-17 05:17:00 | They would move parliament up to Auckland which would then have one of it's long dormant volcanoes erupt.;) Auckland's old volcanoes will not erupt again. There will be new ones next time |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 849305 | 2010-01-17 05:25:00 | They don't make volcanoes like they used to. Take Taupo for example, that had a pretty good kick to it. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 849306 | 2010-01-17 05:58:00 | They don't make volcanoes like they used to. Take Taupo for example, that had a pretty good kick to it. Of course it did. It stopped a war. |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 849307 | 2010-01-17 09:31:00 | Which war was that? Last eruption was some 1800 years ago :) www.geonet.org.nz www.volcano.si.edu |
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