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Gouramis and earthquakes


Caryl

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Last night in the chat room Jude said her gouramis were going berserk, leaping all over the place and going nuts. All other fish were fine. We then hear on the news a big quake hit Sumatra in the early hours of this morning. Now, pearl gouramis come from this area - coinicidence? :-?

Do gouramis have a telepathic link to their cuzzies in Sumatra? :o

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a very creepy thought. they (whoever 'they' is) reckon pets know when something is going to happen cats horses dogs cows go nuts when there is some sort of weird weather pattern about to occur....it may not be as far off as you think Caryl ;) having said that i didn't notice anything weird happening with my gouramis...and i was looking mighty close because i have been staying with a freind for a few days..... said hi to the family when i walked in the door...and went to tell my fish all about it ;-) (how sad is THAT!) lol

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FYI:

went on a small voyage offshore on wednesday lastweek and there is concerns about 'Booboo fault' off cookstrait, hence why the seafloor is being mapped extensively by NIWA/ heres an old article from GNS from 2004 explaining BooBoo

http://www.gns.cri.nz/news/release/booboo.html

its not a prediction / its a risk as far as these things go....when you guys talk about tsunamis - sumatra etc etc...we have our own coasts to worry about, today more than ever before.....

(Completely off the realms of the standard aquarium tank but since we're on the topic of tsunamis)

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today more than ever before

:-? last time i checked earthquakes were'nt a new thing.

unless your contact is friends with the earthquake gods i really wouldnt say things like,(siren going of in the middle of the night in the lower north islands and the people in the town waking up scared that there is a killer tsunami)

scare mongering

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NZ is right on top of several major fault lines. They are always a worry and there is always active fault movement. :wink:

I have never noticed my animals reacting pre-quake (indeed, my cat slept through the last one we had) but they said the local elephants all tried to head for higher ground just before the tsunami.

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sorry alan but even i am controlled by my wife

agoh as you said its not a new thing and working in that feild you should know better than anyone that there is no more risk of an earthquake right now than there was 200 years ago, its not a stab at yoiu as much as it is at the media, it annoyed me when the tsunami hit and all of a sudden people start getting warnings about tsunamis in NZ

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Mass hysteria Brian, it may happen no one really knows, but some people spend their days worrying about it, annoys the hell out of me too.

Question is has anyone told them the earth is bombarded by asteroids and meteors everyday?

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yes theres alot of annoying media etc on these events...but think about awareness and being prepared ..thats why we're consulting with councils to properly plan civil defense procedures, coastal risk assessment, emergency response systems, thats why we modell the effects a shake might have to know potential consequences and who could be worst effected etc..these things are in place to save lifes and minimise dammage.......BTW: don't get me wrong I understand people being annoyed by media etc etc...but wareness leads to education leads to preparedness, means we can convince people to act on setting an infrastructure. okay enuff

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LMAO Agoh you dont live in my area then,the council turned the flash flood alarm off because people may have mistaken it for a tsunami warning, and guess what, there was a large flash flood. 99% of people in our area dont even know what the civil emergency radio station is, and the council gives no information whatsoever as to which one it is. Only reason I find out there is a civil emergency is through a friend who is a paramedic. There will always be hysterical morons but there are a lot of practical sensible people around who are treated like infants by the authorities. How the hell do you expect people to be prepared if the basic alert system fails and there is no education or information? I know of one council which has a poison gas evacuation policy, the mill has a corresponding one, but if you dont work at the mill you know nothing about it. There is no such thing as too much information when it comes to civil emergency, unfortunately the population is treated as though they are idiots.

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