Earthquake Carnage In Kaikōura Canyon 

Thanks so much for sharing your experience!

Now imagine when Hikurangi ruptures, it'll be 1000 times more powerful!

If you were that close I am not in the least surprised. I live at Rapaura, 8k north of Blenheim, and during the second minute all we could do was sit on the sofa and hold on to each other (we go to be quite late). I'm an ex pat Brit who came here to live in 2005, and I'd been looking forward to the thrill of experiencing a decent earthquake. After the Kaikoura earthquake I'll be very happy not to experience another like that one!

@@TrevorDennis100 You picked a beauty for your first decent shake! ps."I'm an ex pat Brit "

​@Moamanly i agree immigrant needs to be said. Ex pat is slang terminology and not valid for most of the world.

@@earthlymatters888 It is also a euphemism. ;-)

What a laugh 😂 as if

Thanks for your appreciation!

Thank you for sharing your experience!

I have drem't several years ago that there would be an earthquake splitting the south from the north through Buller, & from what I have seen this weekend as brave anti-co governance protestors were confronted by the so called leaders of the Church, the judgment which started at Christ-Church in 2009 at the same time as this ( Yom Kippor/ the day of atonement) when the Queen of England at the behest of the Arch Bishop of Canterbury invited Pope Ratzinger to take mass in Westminster Abby, for the first time in 500yrs, on the top of the graves of the martyrs, another quake is well overdue!

Thanks for your appreciation!

I’m an ex underground coal miner from Huntly. You don’t realise the earth is constantly moving/shifting. You can hear and see it underground all the time.

Sure mate

@@justinsmith4562 first time for everything...

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​@@justinsmith4562 youtube much?

Thanks for the interesting comment

The thought occurred to me as well, reminding me of the tradition some ancient people's had of deliberately starting bush fire's to reduce the risk if mega inferno's but also to trigger new growth. The plains that often surround volcano's are some of the most productive growing areas there are. All is cyclical.

@@jameslong9921 fertile river valleys require flood sediment. Disaster and chaos is built into our ecosystems. As humans, we're often at odds with it - and I think we need to rethink our approach to mean of these features of our environment.

True! 😏

My house in picton felt like a Rollercoaster 🎢

very true, our house in wainui and our neighbours pretty much got up and left, we had gaps in the exterior weatherboard cladding, and a 10m concrete breezeblock wall between our properties moved sideways 6 inches, it literally came away from its concrete base and moved as a whole. only a wooden fence post kept it from toppling.

Thanks for sharing!

We live in Dunedin on solid trachyandesite and we never feel anything 😔 Wait, we did get a tiny bit of the 2 round of Chch quakes, but not a peep from the Kaikoura ones. I think other people down here on sediments basins felt it tho.

Drawers.

Thanks for your account. Hopefully the are improved systems now as a result!

​@@OutThereLearning No they still give false-positive tsunami alerts. Sometimes in comical ways. There was an earthquake in Tonga. Down here in Wellington they gave a tsunami alert (our harbour is south-facing). What ended up happening was a 20-30cm wave hit the north side of the North Island, which was smaller than the regular waves happening moment-to-moment. I did not flee to the hills, but many queued for hours in traffic to try escape.

Sounds like what happened in Lahina Maui. I wouldn't follow authorities these days, too dangerous.

@@ezlow1065 I think we're going to hear this more and more as the competence crisis worsens: "only those who disobeyed survived"

I have worked in government and this story sounds very familiar.

Thank you!

It certainly is dramatic!

@virtualdude64 Japan's geology too.

Was james shaw out on the beach again? It looked like a climate camera moment on the welli south coast

Wow, so gracious.

⁠​⁠@@mikedeverson788So what you're really saying that when they were discovering substances (element, compounds of them) and their properties (specific heat) in the 1743- 1787, that work was a pile of crap? Did you know that anything in space where Earth is (the moon, satellites- like the ISS that you can see at night, Musk's satellites etc,) it 1 1/4 times the boiling point of water? If there was very little CO2 in the atmosphere, the planet would be 20 degrees C less and the planet would be frozen, because it was 2 or 3 times in the past (I've forgotten exactly.) They know this because there are moraines right around the globe near/at the equator. (Where the ice pushes material to.) All the fuel we use is ancient stored sunlight and if you burn coal, oil and gas, what was taken out by life, you're adding it back to the closed carbon cycle snd you'll heat the planet- as that has drastically done in the past when one huge period where the too much co2 got removed from the atmosphere about 180 million years ago. That's when the crude oil formed. (Just letting you know, because many people don't.)

Thank you for your appreciation!

My 8 year old understood it!

@@noelburland7169 thank you for describing your experience!

@@OutThereLearning You're welcome. The 2016 Kaikoura earthquake was certainly a unique event and I guess even nearly eight years later there's still a lot to learn and discover about what unfolded.

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Thanks, glad you like it

Good question. Such things do happen, and can lead to confusion until it is realised that the fossils have been eroded out of the older source rock...

Yes the flow cari]ried both ancient and modern organisms with it. These are so useful for us as they allow us to finger print where the fossils came from the the way in which the underwater avalanches involved in space and time. @@OutThereLearning

Ahh now you understand that the dating of anything anywhere is incredibly questionable and unreliable :)

Thanks!

Thank you

Indeed!

Thanks for your clarification, cheers

What does the word qreckage apply to?

Yep - nature can make big moves all of a sudden!

Thanks, glad you think so!

Indeed!

...just what you expect from a tiny nuke

@@wendyg8536 Just plates shifting actually did you not watch the video?

Yep it is!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Cheers!

Cheers!

Parts of the Humps, Hundalee, Hope, Jordan Thrust, Papatea, Kekerengu and Needles faults all went. It's crazy!

There are plans afoot to start to work in this part of NZ.

Indeed so!

a better analogy is a Nuee ardente....a pyroclastic flow consisting of superheated ash and gas that you see racing down the slopes of erupting volcanoes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroclastic_flow

1. there is no documented examples of a marine seismic survey ever triggering an earthquake 2. the low frequency energy from the air guns on a marine seismic towed array is nowhere near high enough to trigger rupture of a fault, even if you stuck the guns hard against a fault. The pulse from an air gun is severely attenuated by a water column and kms of rock before it gets to any fault. By the time the signal has returned to the geophones its so weak that it needs serious amplification and processing to extract any useful information. 3. At the time of the quake The Amazon Warrior had just arrived in NZ waters and was sitting in Clifford Bay and its towed array wasn't deployed.

A pyroclastic flow is an excellent analogy

Sure, go ahead

@@OutThereLearning Thank you so much i really appreciate it! This video is extremely well done and great for teaching!

Thank you

what?

No. It's Kai-ko-ra

Who gives a shit? We all know what they're talking about. Say it how ever you like.

Seismic vessels don't normally carry ROVs. The towed array on a seismic vessel floats on the surface not on the sea bottom. You really need to stop perpetuating the myth that a seismic survey vessel triggered the Kaikoura Quake sequence. You might consider a few facts: 1. there is no documented examples of a marine seismic survey triggering an earthquake 2. the low frequency energy from the air guns on a marine seismic towed array is nowhere near high enough to trigger rupture of a fault, even if you stuck the guns hard against a fault. The pulse from an air gun is severely attenuated by a water column and kms of rock before it gets to any fault. By the time the signal has returned to the geophones its so weak that it needs serious amplification and processing to extract any useful information. 3. At the time of the quake The Amazon Warrior had just arrived in NZ waters and was sitting in Clifford Bay and its towed array wasn't deployed.

@@Kiwigeo8339 I didn't say the array was on the bottom of the ocean..or that it was deployed at the time of the quake, or the array itself caused it. However. .any blasts, individually, may not be sufficient to case a quake..it is the regular structured and repetitive frequency that may set up a particular harmonic or standing wave that amplifies that could..an often natural occurrence that does lead to quakes. The Geonet drums at the time were riddled with repetitive 2mag hits constantly and also by locality of ship which headed north towards the east coast of North Island over time .. fractures revealed by slips in the Wellington and Manawatu gorge happenned after the quake. This drum signal reduced significantly after the ship finished operations, and settled down to the background aftershock You would hope that these seismic vessels don't have any cause of inclimentating quakes because that would be a liability and insurance question. Possibly not the first time you have read similar comments if you feel it is topic that is being perpetuated.

@@Kiwigeo8339 there were two initial quakes out in the ocean.

@@Kiwigeo8339 if the seismic blast signal did not enter the landscape for the purposes of mapping the oil field..then it would not be mapping the oilfield at all..but only the surface of the sea floor...redundant in its requirements to map the field.

lol conspiracy nut job enough?, mate that conspiracy garbage is clickbait entertainment, stop believing it.

No it’s not! The West Coast of the SI is moving north along the Alpine fault line. Wellington has had a few uplifts of its coastline which you can still see today. In the video they mentioned the uplift of the shore at Kaikōura.

A lot of women study geology. Back in the early 80's when I did my Geology degree at least half my final year class was female. Gender is no barrier to being a scientist.

This video has been specifically designed for children (10 yo), if you would like to learn about the technical details please tune into the Geosceince Society of NZ Hochstetter lecture itself. This will be posted in the coming weeks and will provide a deeper dive into the science here.

That's good to hear. None of the other videos on the channel were for that younger audience so it seemed we had gone lightweight. But also don't assume younger people cannot deal with detail.@@lstrachan3635

@@lstrachan3635 well for this 50yr old who left school early but loves the sciences as I've aged . This is fantastic in its format , the balance is perfect . Might have a go at the lecture , just to be nosy .

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zM9Khi5R0kU.html. Thanks for the heads up @@lstrachan3635

You should ask for your money back.

Thanks for your comment. It was in fact our aim to reach school age children with this video. We don't have a problem with 8 year olds being interested!