Right, screw it, Im out drinking tonight, cause life is so fleeting >_
Haowhenua earthquake ~1460 would have created a massive tsunami. They happen quite regularly over many thousands of years in NZ...
And so, Chicken Little ran around shouting the sky is falling, the sky is falling!Here endeth the lesson.
A rupture north of East Cape is also possible, this may give people more time to reach higher ground but would be devastating to coastal areas facing the north east.Bay of Plenty, Auckland and Northland would be at risk
And of course a 10 metre tsunami in a bay with a wide mouth could compress to be come a 30 metre wave at the apex.
I have been trying to find out why there was so many large native trees lying facing east in Takanini through to Alfriston in South Auckland. It is a well known fact but nobody seems to know what happened.Whatever it was must have hit from the West to lay everything down facing East. Seeing we are reasonably protected by the Manukau Harbour I would think it would have been tremendous winds from the West. Some of these trees were huge kauri and a lot still lays there.
Surely â20% the size ofâ would be better than âfive times smallerâ?!
Interesting then that the majority of our port infrastructure is on the east coast - perhaps we should be looking more to the west coast so there is some resilience in the ports.
Strictly speaking that would be a seiche rather than a tsunami.
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Ok experts - your all displaying is apathy of mega-thrust proportions.For NZ the Hikurangi Fault uplift would be the equivalent of an asteroid strike the size of mayor island.In 20 minutes up to 500,000 casualties as Christchurch, Dunedin & Wgtn suffer catastrophic damage to all ports & power supplies. Its a lot worse in the North, with Napier,Gisborne,Whakatane,Mt Maunganui, Whangamata, Pauanui, Waihi, Whitianga -no longer existing.No Power as most substations would be inundated (Think South Auckland sub-stations) and Marsden Point would be a giant oil slick.Lets hope your all wrong shall we?
I used to argue with my father about this in the 80s. The tests, while reprehensible, were underground and did physically effect the reef at Mururoa Atol but you have to realise that oceanic crust is 30km thick and a even a nuke is not going to do much to it.
what about the 1960 tsunami? Valdivia Earthquake in Chile. Mw9.5
Why do people like you always think scientists are just out to scare everyone? Is it because you dont understand their work? Scientists are typically extremely passionate about their field of study and love to share their knowledge with others - especially when it may help to save lives through people being aware of a particular hazard, like tsunami. Stuff has plenty of feel-good page-fillers - in fact, a lot of people (who sound an awful lot like you) complain they have too many. They cant win, can they? Post too many feel-good stories and they get accused of not being a real news site. Start posting science articles and theyre accused of scaremongering.
prove it
what about the Nuclear tests that were done in the Pacific Ocean by both America and France?that must have caused some serious damage and water displacement
There was also a tsunami on Lake TaupÅ caused by a landslide which killed a number of people living in waihi village at the time. So that makes two.
Not for 10s of thousands of years (for a super eruption event), but yeah...
Right, screw it, Im out drinking tonight, cause life is so fleeting >_
Haowhenua earthquake ~1460 would have created a massive tsunami. They happen quite regularly over many thousands of years in NZ...
And so, Chicken Little ran around shouting the sky is falling, the sky is falling!Here endeth the lesson.
A rupture north of East Cape is also possible, this may give people more time to reach higher ground but would be devastating to coastal areas facing the north east.Bay of Plenty, Auckland and Northland would be at risk
And of course a 10 metre tsunami in a bay with a wide mouth could compress to be come a 30 metre wave at the apex.
I have been trying to find out why there was so many large native trees lying facing east in Takanini through to Alfriston in South Auckland. It is a well known fact but nobody seems to know what happened.Whatever it was must have hit from the West to lay everything down facing East. Seeing we are reasonably protected by the Manukau Harbour I would think it would have been tremendous winds from the West. Some of these trees were huge kauri and a lot still lays there.
Surely â20% the size ofâ would be better than âfive times smallerâ?!
Interesting then that the majority of our port infrastructure is on the east coast - perhaps we should be looking more to the west coast so there is some resilience in the ports.
Strictly speaking that would be a seiche rather than a tsunami.
45m
Doomed Doomed we are all Doomed Quote âDads Armyâ
Ok experts - your all displaying is apathy of mega-thrust proportions.For NZ the Hikurangi Fault uplift would be the equivalent of an asteroid strike the size of mayor island.In 20 minutes up to 500,000 casualties as Christchurch, Dunedin & Wgtn suffer catastrophic damage to all ports & power supplies. Its a lot worse in the North, with Napier,Gisborne,Whakatane,Mt Maunganui, Whangamata, Pauanui, Waihi, Whitianga -no longer existing.No Power as most substations would be inundated (Think South Auckland sub-stations) and Marsden Point would be a giant oil slick.Lets hope your all wrong shall we?
I used to argue with my father about this in the 80s. The tests, while reprehensible, were underground and did physically effect the reef at Mururoa Atol but you have to realise that oceanic crust is 30km thick and a even a nuke is not going to do much to it.
what about the 1960 tsunami? Valdivia Earthquake in Chile. Mw9.5
Why do people like you always think scientists are just out to scare everyone? Is it because you dont understand their work? Scientists are typically extremely passionate about their field of study and love to share their knowledge with others - especially when it may help to save lives through people being aware of a particular hazard, like tsunami. Stuff has plenty of feel-good page-fillers - in fact, a lot of people (who sound an awful lot like you) complain they have too many. They cant win, can they? Post too many feel-good stories and they get accused of not being a real news site. Start posting science articles and theyre accused of scaremongering.
prove it
what about the Nuclear tests that were done in the Pacific Ocean by both America and France?that must have caused some serious damage and water displacement
There was also a tsunami on Lake TaupÅ caused by a landslide which killed a number of people living in waihi village at the time. So that makes two.
Not for 10s of thousands of years (for a super eruption event), but yeah...
get out the long board