Luke* Posted January 22, 2005 Report Share Posted January 22, 2005 Best thing to do is just all move to Hamilton... That must've been scary. Suphew how was your unsecured tank? Seems like the pacific ring of fire is getting restless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted January 23, 2005 Report Share Posted January 23, 2005 I reckon it's the weight of pies' new marine tank settling that is causing the quakes in Welly :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jude Posted January 23, 2005 Report Share Posted January 23, 2005 LOL Caryl, could be too. Maybe we need another one on the opposite side of Wellington to balance things out. Cheers Jude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted January 23, 2005 Report Share Posted January 23, 2005 Now taking donations for a 2000 liter marine tank at my house. For the sake of the city of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jude Posted January 23, 2005 Report Share Posted January 23, 2005 LOL Ira I would offer to have it here but as you know, I'd need to take up scuba diving to be able to look after it. And you do have a concrete floor already ................... I'll donate a bag of salt to get you started. Cheers Jude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted January 23, 2005 Report Share Posted January 23, 2005 I'll donate a bag of salt to get you started. Every little bit helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suphew Posted January 24, 2005 Report Share Posted January 24, 2005 Been away all weekend, but the tank survived all the earth quakes! I loosely piled a whole lot of new live rock (hence the trip away) in the tank last night, didn't have time to place it securly, really got my fingers crossed now!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caper Posted May 2, 2005 Report Share Posted May 2, 2005 OHHHHHHH MY...I didn't know you folks had earthquakes until Caryl told me in another posting! Then I come across this...I'm glad to hear that everybody is ok. Do you folks have earthquakes often? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted May 2, 2005 Report Share Posted May 2, 2005 We are in what is called The Ring of Fire which runs around the Pacific. That means we have quake fault lines running through our country plus volcanos. We get lots of quakes but most do little or no damage. They say we are overdue for the Big One though! They terrify me. I still remember one we had in 1967 (that ages me doesn't it?). Don't know how big it was but I remember the power going off, then a roar, then violent shaking. As well as the noise of the quake itself, everything came crashing down off shelves, pictures came off the walls, furniture was flung about the room, the chimneys came down, the toilet cracked in half (luckily nobody was on it at the time ) and the whole house was moved 4 inches off its foundations. You could look down the bedroom wall and see the flowers in the garden outside. I remember the mess of all the preserves, eggs and birdseed slopping over the floor. Amazingly, because the cupboards faced the other way, we didn't lose any crockery though. Two years later an even bigger quake hit Inangahua and people were killed. There were massive landslides and one even blocked a whole valley with the river backing up behind it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caper Posted May 2, 2005 Report Share Posted May 2, 2005 That's the first time I've hear of "The Ring of Fire". If this the same area that involved that horrible quake at Christmas time where so many people lost their lives? Apparently we've had small earthquakes here in the 1920's I think. Nothing serious though. Oh...and a couple of months ago...they did register a small one of off Cape Breton. I'm on the east coast of Canada...on the west coast...they are on the same fault line..."Andres" fault...that California sits on. Caryl...I'd like to do a bit of reading on New Zealand...can you recommend a good web site? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modern Angl Posted May 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2005 map of all tectonic plates in the world... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joze Posted May 4, 2005 Report Share Posted May 4, 2005 also http://www.geonet.org.nz/recent_quakes.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted May 4, 2005 Report Share Posted May 4, 2005 Caper I don't know of any NZ site specifically (never looked them up) but I can direct you to http://photobucket.com/albums/v144/carylnz/ This is my web album. There is one album there called New Zealand, which will show you what my country looks like. Feel free to look in the other albums as well, particularly the Karamea trip we did recently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caper Posted May 4, 2005 Report Share Posted May 4, 2005 OOOOOOOOhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....absolutely breathtaking. Thank you for sharing this with me Caryl...unfortunately, I have to go somewhere...love looking at pictures...so will be taking more time to take them all in. New Zealand is beautiful...all I can really think of saying is WOW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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