OT:Earth tremor

[Geoff]

Just felt an earth tremor in Melbourne SE suburbs. I'll take a
stab at magnitude 3.5

Went for about 10 secinds, good side-to-side shaking.

 

[Dennis]

"Geoff" <public@email.com> wrote in message
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Geoff <public@email.com> wrote in
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Just felt an earth tremor in Melbourne SE suburbs. I'll
take a stab at magnitude 3.5

Went for about 10 secinds, good side-to-side shaking.


Just heard that the epicentre was Korumburra, and magnitude 4.4

Not a bad guess then with the 3.5

 

[Geoff]

Geoff <public@email.com> wrote in
news:Xns9F18E8C52198BGeoff@88.198.244.100:

Just felt an earth tremor in Melbourne SE suburbs. I'll
take a stab at magnitude 3.5

Went for about 10 secinds, good side-to-side shaking.

Just heard that the epicentre was Korumburra, and magnitude 4.4

 

[Pete]

Just heard that the epicentre was Korumburra, and magnitude 4.4

Not a bad guess then with the 3.5

Each numeric increase by 1 is ten times the shaking amplitude, so the
original guess was actually off by nearly a factor of ten

Peter

 

[Dennis]

"Pete" <pjetson@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Just heard that the epicentre was Korumburra, and magnitude 4.4

Not a bad guess then with the 3.5

Each numeric increase by 1 is ten times the shaking amplitude, so the
original guess was actually off by nearly a factor of ten

Peter

Yeah, I know that but still not a bad result considering he used a
seismo-wobbly-legometer to get to that value!

 

[geoff]

Geoff wrote:

Just felt an earth tremor in Melbourne SE suburbs. I'll take a
stab at magnitude 3.5

Went for about 10 secinds, good side-to-side shaking.

We had one Tues day too. 6.5 at Taupo - felt it in Wellington bigger than
anything I've ever felt before, and that was 200km away !

geoff (a different one).

 

[Geoff]

"geoff" <geoff@nospampaf.co.nz> wrote in
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Geoff wrote:
Just felt an earth tremor in Melbourne SE suburbs. I'll
take a stab at magnitude 3.5

Went for about 10 secinds, good side-to-side shaking.


We had one Tues day too. 6.5 at Taupo - felt it in
Wellington bigger than anything I've ever felt before, and
that was 200km away !

geoff (a different one).

Maybe something to do with it being on the same tectonic plate?
I don't know what it feels like to esperience a 6.5. A workmate
was in Tokyo during the big one there this year and he said it
was scary at mag 5.x We have friends in Melbourne from
Chistchurch. They won't move back under any circumstances.

 

[geoff]

Geoff wrote:

Maybe something to do with it being on the same tectonic plate?
I don't know what it feels like to esperience a 6.5. A workmate
was in Tokyo during the big one there this year and he said it
was scary at mag 5.x We have friends in Melbourne from
Chistchurch. They won't move back under any circumstances.

So now they'll be moving on from Melbourne ?!!

geoff

 

[Buzz^|]

On 8/07/2011 4:56 PM, geoff wrote:

Geoff wrote:



Maybe something to do with it being on the same tectonic plate?
I don't know what it feels like to esperience a 6.5. A workmate
was in Tokyo during the big one there this year and he said it
was scary at mag 5.x We have friends in Melbourne from
Chistchurch. They won't move back under any circumstances.

So now they'll be moving on from Melbourne ?!!

geoff

We get a 5.5 here every few years and they are an interesting thing to
plan for. Picture frames don't do too well. Had one while driving one
time and I thought a wheel was loose.

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