In 2014 Scientists are drilling more than a kilometre down into the plate boundary fault in New Zealand's South Island. The Alpine Fault is considered to be at high risk of producing a big earthquake in the next 50 years
kinda messed uo watching this 6 months after the 7.8 eq that made ocean floors rise up 6-9 ft and ill nevet forget seeing on the news those 2 cows standinh on a little chunk of land where they could barely move and all the land around them is gone. eq's are horrible but this one was truly eerie in the way it gave us unforgetable pics and sights..... hope everyone is getting back to what normal can be considered. im very sorry
There's been quite a few more earthquakes lately, further up the Kahurangi subduction zones northern end, off shore, that have been over 4.5, & up to 5.8. Since the Kaikoura one - to which you refer - there's been several dozen, of quakes, of the size mentioned abouve, which have been widely felt.
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Question: why can't a mirror be placed at the bottom of such a hole, and then shin a laser down in order to get very sensitive measurements in changes to soil layer movement/positions? Also, what about taking audio frequency measurements recording how the soil compresses and then grow quiet right before slippage and energy release?
"why can't a mirror be placed at the bottom" Because the borehole is full of opaque drilling fluid. The drilling fluid is there to stop the borehole caving in and also to control any ingress or formation fluids.
A bit sad how modern buildings built to code in Chch and again in Wgtn failed where old remained intact. Apparently, the code is only useful in a long-drop!
Many of the fatalities in the city were from falling masonry parapets that came off several older buildings. And it was just two poorly-constructed modern buildings that failed, causing most of the terrible death toll. Even then, they both fell in the 2nd quake in Feb, and should have already been deemed uninhabitable after the September shake. Combination of poor engineering, poor oversight, poor safety inspections and bad decisions. But pretty much all our buildings - old and new - stayed standing.
@@alexpearson8481 You've just made a half a*sed description of S waves. We already know that S and surface waves cause most of the damage during an earthquake
@@Kiwigeo8339 why is it that you presume that I know anything whatsoever about earthquakes or geology? So, whose comment is truly half as§Ed? Haven’t really thought it through, have we? The best thing about being humble in life is it allows us to keep an open mind. It’s just like Elon musk said; classical education (also science, history, etc) is a mental straight jacket. Why would he say that? And since we’re on the subject of science (at the risk of sounding arrogant) I’ll be more than happy to debate quantum gravity, the standard model, a trapped surface, etc.
A channel called "Out There Learning" did a good video about how they are trying to predict quakes on the alpine fault. Well worth a look, the whole channel is great.
When we had the Kaikoura earthquake the Amazon Warrior the largest fracking ship in the world was fracking in Cloudy Bay. It disappeared after the earthquake struck.
You're right! Now I remember the warnings from alternative sources about the real business of that bloody ship. Trying to trigger an earthquake under the guise of mineral resource exploration. Bastards.
@@jeroenjansen2709 Apparently the ship was directly above the plates there were blue flashes of lights that came up out of the sea and lit up the sky and moments later the earthquake struck. My neice living in Wellington on a hill witnessed the lights prior to the strike.
3:05 says they drilled in 2011 to 150 meters. What date was it?. A big earthquake hit that year claiming lot's of lives. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake
That earthquake was part of the port hills fault and activity on that fault was triggered by the greendale fault earthquake near darfield a year earlier. the greendale fault is a stress fracture from the immense pressure in the alpine fault. the drilling was done very far from this area of the alpine fault
Two significant quakes hit Christchurch 21 April 2023. All building up and transferring pressure to the main fault ready for the big one. Some predict that when it goes it will be the biggest quake in recorded history.
There are about 15,000 Earthquakes in NZ each year, there have been no damaging quakes in CHCH in over a decade now and the 2010 and 2011 events had nothing to do with the Alpine fault anyway. You can't cherry pick a few random events trying to prove some kind of link.
More the fact, what comes after an Earthquake in one of the most volcanic active place on Earth. Unless that waka can take you out into space, we're all fucked. Love from Te Aranui Tribe.
It is absolutely, positively and definitely one hundred percent CERTAIN that it will happen in the not too distant future. Imagine how many times it has happened to thrust the Southern Alps up into the sky. Were it not for erosion Mount Cook would today be 27km high as against the 3.7km that it is. (Info source: the book 'Rise And Fall Of The Southern Alps').
The big word is is MAY it also May come to nothing in other words its like buying a lotto ticket with far less chances of winning oO waste of money if you ask me, i would rather see the money go into new building design that would help save lives.
Remember Key speaking in CH CH and twice he mistakenly referenced the earthquake as being man made. According to emails from Hilary Clinton revealed by Julian Assange the quake was orchestrated. The email was available on line and might be on YT. I did read the email and can testify to it's truth, which tied in with Keys admissions.
***** I am aware of statistical methods and their limitations which is why I made the comment I did. I liken giving an x% probability of some particular event occurring in y years time as placing a buck each way. I think real earthquake predictions (that is, time and place) will be possible in the future but that in order to do so a much bigger picture needs to be taken into account - the global effects of plate movements. Unfortunately statistical methods flatten curves, suppress outliers and give averages. For example, 10 quakes per century is equivalent in statistical terms whether they are evenly spaced or occur in a clump over that period of time.
***** For now, yes. But I think we can do better. In the past I have heard the a-is-not-connected-to-b argument but I think that may be changing. It stands to reason that if the earth's surface area doesn't change but relative crustal movements occur in one location there must be some compensatory movement elsewhere. As an obvious example (ignoring slip/shear movements) if new crust is being produced in ocean trenches there must be subduction and/or upthrust occurring elsewhere. I wonder whether global plate movements are currently being mapped in real time?
the probability over a suitably long period is 100%, the probability over a shorter period is somewhat less than 100%. Trying to nail it down is quite hard.
@@pashakdescilly7517 like saying 1 crisp packet or plastic bag on the floor wont end up in the sea killing animals when it does do exactly that.. Wasteful crap attitude youve got! How you know for sure regarding the hole oh great wise one???
They are drilling 20 cm diamerer hole in a fault that is thousands of kilometer long. The plate tectonics weigh billions of tons and you think this hole is going to bring it all down.
Tanya you're a worthless brain-dead moron just like Greta, apart from she's manipulative enough to have made a shit ton of cash along with countless first class flights around the world.
Coincidentally, the first drilling program was conducted just to the Feb 22 quake. which was also attended by The head of FEMA, Rear Admiral (ret) Thad Aleen and his sidekick, Timothy Manning, who ran the EQ response, ably and conveniently assisted by 1000 troops who began the Exercise Southern Katipo (NZ Black Widow) that day, and the Navy were in Port, a Singaporean USAR team already at Harewood ready to be deployed and an extra 400 Urologists (aka Doctors) in town for the exercise - thus indicating someone was really taking the piss...earthquakes, storms, weather control, Uncle Samhain is at it again. Those of the craft do like to leave their mark, hence the 4;40 time signature, the 1300mtr hole (4266ft = 666). But while they may play at their Geo-enginnering and such, they will have to deal with the Landlord sooner or late, and when He shrugs, look out! Yes, it is ground-braking work, and we are the sheepish suckers who will be broken...not long now...NZ is to be the Haiti of the South Pacific...and Wellington will be destroyed...utterly...check out the hologram of NZ on the ne notes and the look on LIz's face on the $20 - by 2020 it will all be as plain as the nose on her face...
Ian Williams They have been using chemtrails witihn the skies 6 days a week. even from little planes.even after cyclone Pam and after normal storms.they are shipping lots of our water to China. the GE is not for rain.HAARP also has been used within our skies weekly.National hunger to drill for oil. and dolphines and whales have been stranded for unknown reasons at the same time.National laughed chemtrails out of parlament when the greenparty took the topic in,.fracking is to be used soon while towns overseas explode and rivers die.and we all drink what they drop on us within our streams unwillingly.how does the government have such money to use for what they claim brings water when all is a lie.and the GMO corn we have is killing our beesand the nuclear leek has only ten years before it hits our shores.America is falling from their crimes and keys is sucking up to them.
And the 7.8 was on the other side of the island..lol There's no such thing as earthquake cycles, the pressure from the south west pacific transfers trough the entire planet (plates, super fractures and faults).
@Martin Turner doubt it. Earth's crust is a massive puzzle with pieces moving. It makes sense when energy is released things adjust accordingly even if small amounts.
