Hard News: 2011: The Year Of What?
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Tom Beard, in reply to
“slumbering, not dormant”
Which is an etymologically confusing distinction.
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Rich Lock, in reply to
Googling earthquakes+taupo+today brings up some interesting results.
GNS volcanologist Brad Scott said today's earthquake was fairly typical movement:
"We would typically have maybe two or three events around maybe 5.5 and 6 (magnitude) at about 150-200km depth a year under the North Island. It's slightly larger than average but it's kind of what we really expect."
You're no fun, Brad, raining on our incipient hysteria with your facts and statistics.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Which is an etymologically confusing distinction.
Quite. But you sorta got what she meant ...
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Russell Brown, in reply to
You’re no fun, Brad, raining on our incipient hysteria with your facts and statistics.
But reassuring all the same. Depending on which way the wind blows, a Taupo eruption is pretty much game over for New Zealand.
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>this highly lucid and utterly bleak assessment of the global economy
Boom. Well, that's today's mood well and truly darkened, thanks!
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Well I would worry about any earthquake at 2 kms deep, which is what the latest 2.0 sized one at Taupo was (in the last 24 hours). And we haven't even considered the Auckland cones.
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Sacha, in reply to
Fashion should hold up as folk try to make sense of/express their angst at the economy's demise. Not sure about kittehs though.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
And we haven’t even considered the Auckland cones.
Or more precisely, the prospect of a new Auckland cone -- the existing ones won't re-erupt. Which would be disastrous but not actually the end of Auckland.
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But I think that what will make 2011 memorable will be some human events, and the Arab Spring, the Chilean student protests, the Wisconsin workers' anger, the Greek riots, and the English uprising (wait for the Tory Party conference protests in Sept) are only the start. But it could come down to the actions of one or two brave people to provide the spark. I think we could see some major 'the emperor has no clothes' moments that will positively change our way of thinking.
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Volcanic eruptions are sometimes preceded by frequent shallow small earthquakes, presumably as magma moves beneath ...
And sometimes there are no preceding earthquakes ...
And sometimes there are earthquakes typical of an eruption without any actual eruption ...
We are somewhat on a learning curve here :).
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Bart Janssen, in reply to
the existing ones probably won’t re-erupt
you forgot the weasel word
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Rich Lock, in reply to
You’re no fun, Brad, raining on our incipient hysteria with your facts and statistics.
But reassuring all the same. Depending on which way the wind blows, a Taupo eruption is pretty much game over for New Zealand.
Just got to this 2006 article in the google stats:
Rotorua, Taupo and Whakatane are set to be wiped out in a massive overdue earthquake, say geologists.
The shocking prediction has been made at a Natural Hazards Management Conference in Christchurch.
Geology experts Tim Davies and Mauri McSaveney have predicted that an alpine fault earthquake is overdue, and would result in the East Cape ripping away from New Zealand, destroying the plateau that Rotorua is based on and taking Taupo and Whakatane with it.
The pair say the earthquake will strike "out of the blue" and cause widespread death, shut down power generators, create tsunamis within New Zealand and overwhelm emergency services.
"The most likely time [for the quake] is now. The next most likely time for it to happen is tomorrow," Associate Professor Davies, of Canterbury University, told the conference.
The Chch connection makes that...actually not all that funny.
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Lucy Stewart, in reply to
Volcanic eruptions are sometimes preceded by frequent shallow small earthquakes, presumably as magma moves beneath …
And sometimes there are no preceding earthquakes …
And sometimes there are earthquakes typical of an eruption without any actual eruption …
We are somewhat on a learning curve here
The other day I read a truly entertaining 1836 pamphlet for people considering settling in New Zealand, which informed them that "earthquakes are not known to occur in New Zealand".
There were, naturally, a number of other egregious flaws - particularly the bits about Maori - but that one was, um, special.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
There were, naturally, a number of other egregious flaws – particularly the bits about Maori – but that one was, um, special.
Indeed. Especially given that there were major earthquakes in
1848 (Marlborough, destroyed nearly every brick or stone building in Wellington), 1855 (Wairarapa, 8.2 mag, tsunami in Wellington Harbour) and 1888 (North Canterbury, took the spire off Christchurch Cathedral).The long list includes many more, including two biggies around the Whanganui River in 1838 and 1845. The former caused landslides and a backwash so large it left waka stranded up on cliffs.
I’d be feeling a bit brassed off with whoever wrote that pamphlet had I rocked up in 1836.
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From Macca.....
On the positive side, adversity can breed great leaders.
So thats the get out clause?
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
I hope there is some sort of soul searching
They have souls? Thought it was absence of, that caused this in the first place.
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Worried about losing everything if the economy tanks? Quick, swap your gold for kittehs.
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Well I had a great weekend, and was feeling very positive. Then I read this thread. Goodness me, talk about the Public Address-men of the Apocalypse.
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Matthew Poole, in reply to
brought Auckland its warmest February and May on record
To be followed, three months later, by only the second confirmed instance of snow in suburban Auckland in the last 75 years and the lowest daily high on record.
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Rich Lock, in reply to
Well I had a great weekend, and was feeling very positive.
Can't be having that sort of behaviour now, can we?
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Danielle, in reply to
Bloody dystopians, ruining it for everyone.
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Bart Janssen, in reply to
They have souls? Thought it was absence of, that caused this in the first place.
Of course they have souls, but they are taught to ignore them in the first year of their BCom.
Actually that isn't being facetious, they've done studies comparing BCom. students with other degrees and shown that one year of a commerce degree is enough to make people significantly more greedy and selfish. Apparently they learn that everyone else is selfish too so they should be selfish first ...
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Rich Lock, in reply to
Bloody dystopians, ruining it for everyone.
I'm more of a dyspeptian, generally.
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they’ve done studies comparing BCom. students with other degrees and shown that one year of a commerce degree is enough to make people significantly more greedy and selfish.
Sorry to put you on the spot- but do you have a reference for this? (I read something similar- can't locate it.)
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3410,
Probably "Psychopaths and big money - it all adds up" from NZH.
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