Posted on 11/18/2016 1:10:52 PM PST by Twotone
These incredible photographs show how New Zealand's 7.8 magnitude earthquake lifted the seabed two metres - and exploded through the sand.
Dramatic aerial pictures reveal the scale of the devastation caused on the coastline north of Kaikoura, on the country's South Island.
Scientists say the seabed lifted an estimated two metres on the foreshore and admit they have never seen anything like it.
It comes as rain and strong winds battered central New Zealand on Thursday, threatening further damage - just days after the quake killed two people and sparked with huge landslides.
More than 1,000 tourists and residents have since been evacuated from the small seaside town by a fleet of helicopters and a naval vessel since the 7.8 magnitude quake struck early on Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Here’s an article about the last time that fault generated a quake ... roughly 9 PM, 26 Jan 1700.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one
Indeed, thanks for posting.
That’s what I was thinking, looking at the pictures makes me feel small.
I liked Rotorua (and the rest of NZ).
There is a problem with that article, but I suspect the writer could not help that: in the event of a destructive earthquake that destroys the cities located in the main valleys nestled against the Cascade Mountain ranges, so will the water reservoirs be destroyed.
That destruction will include the lowest two reservoirs on the Columbia River, and the eight that exist in the Cascades south of the Columbia River. So it will not just be the earthquakes that shake the Portland Metro area that is destructive, but flooding. That flooding will have little reason to rush the the sea, as it will be a tsunami flood racing upriver. The distance from the Columbia River bar at the mouth of the river to the juncture of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers is approximately one hundred miles.
The rare two-fer. Nice!
Not exactly. The quake in 79 triggered (or was triggered by?) the first recorded "Plinian" eruption.
Named after Pliny The Elder who died trying to rescue people from Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Wait a minute -
I always thought he was Pliny the Welder.
Perhaps a distant descendant.
Welding hadn’t been invented yet...
I must have been confused.
But I did hear that the Romans used aqueduct tape for just about everything.
;-)
And VVD-LX.
Only for things that moved that weren’t supposed to.
Olive oil-40 for everything that was supposed to move and didn’t...
As you say
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