UPDATED info, links, commentary, video . . . "Why quakes weren't caused by seismic blasting or 'unzipping' faultline"
This article goes over a number of 'myths' floating around about the big quake.
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FEATURE VIDEO: The quake--and everything that followedhttp://www.stuff.co.nz/national/nz-earthquake/86546340/feature-video-the-quake--and-everything-that-followedThis is a good overview just like the title says--a bit over 9 minutes long. By noon Wed, the aftershocks passed the 1500 mark.
There's some new startling pics of roads and homes and other buildings in this video.
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Finding out how much the Earth moved during massive quake:http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/86565581/finding-out-how-much-the-earth-moved-during-massive-earthquakeThere's some good maps and explanations at the link.
There was vertical offset as well as horizontal offset.
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Many anecdotal reports suggest a two-metre rise at the coast, and there's even one report of a reef rising six metres. As a result large numbers of paua, crayfish and other marine life were stranded out of the water, and there are concerns the fishery has been badly damaged.
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"All sorts of numbers are flying around," GNS Science earthquake geologist Nicola Litchfield said.
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The uplift would have happened during the 90 seconds to two minutes the quake lasted, and given the event started in Culverden it probably didn't happen in the first 30 seconds.
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"It would have been amazing if it had been daylight and someone had seen it," Litchfield said.
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There's really quite an oblong area that suffered major quakes and tons of lesser quakes in diverse locations within the area.
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New video shows just how damaged SH1 {North/South coastal highway} is after the Kaikoura quakeThis is an 11:15 minute video
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/nz-earthquake/86557661/new-video-shows-just-how-damaged-sh1-is-after-the-kaikoura-quakeEven the passable parts of the road are still quite a mess in lots of places.
Given the cliffs and aftershocks . . . I wonder how safe such a drive would be!
When Southern California suffers some big ones . . . the mess will be even worse. May God have mercy. Wow.
There's some big cracks in the roadway . . . 1-3 feet in many places, a yard or more in others . . . cracks with gaps where the earth spread apart . . . and places where uplifts were as much as a yard or more, or near it.
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This was far from a minor event even though the loss of life was not great.
Welllllllllllllll, that's the end of this part of the drive--an uplift straight across the road blocks the way--about a yard high.
And now, a tunnel blocked by a land slip, blocks the way.
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"Hard-hit Kaikoura dairy farmers dumping milk after earthquake"http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/86559655/kaikoura-dairy-farmers-dumping-milk-after-earthquake. . . using milk to irrigate pastures in some cases . . . {milk is 9X% water--I forget--97 or some such. Dad was a dairyman in his young adult life}
Dumping 14,000 litres of milk a day just on one farm . . . is a lot . . . daily dump with other farms in 6 figures . . . .
His grain silo with 20 tons of feed for his cows was also toppled over.
Generators have been flown in to keep the milking machines going. Glad that's answered. I was troubled by the prospect of their having to milk that many cows by hand with virtually no one knowing how. I {Qx} could milk a cow by hand--did it enough years--but I don't know any of my cohorts that could. But it would take so long that the evening milking would likely have to start right after the morning milking was done--since I couldn't imagine more than a handful of people able to help with it by hand.
And I remember when my 11 year old double cousin in Albuquerque was 100% convinced that milk came out of wells in the ground.
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