Shout out to that one cicada who's audio-bombing basically the entire video with the intrepid zeal of Tāne-mahuta! You're definitely dead by now, but your song lives and has been heard by over a quarter of a million people. So, regardless of how many cicada-ladies it won you in life, in death it has won you immortality both on RU-vid and in my heart. ❤️
NZ has only been above water level for about 25 million years after drifting away from Gondwanaland about 840 million years ago and submerging. NZ is just the top of a large continent mostly under water - ‘Zealandia’ 😎
They could probably make one now but a few of the local people don't want it bigger planes bigger noise but huge benefits for Wellington maybe if and when everything goes back to normal
Stand on Cambridge Terrace - Kent Terrace, at the Ghuznee St intersection, and look either way to see 4 raised beaches. The site your standing on, was in the late 1800's, a shallow harbour, capable of accomadateing, tall sailing ships. Were it still a harbour, one would be underwater, by several feet, at the first rise, deeper on the rest of them. Pity this video didn't include the South Island leg of the Kahurangi subduction zone, which ruptured about 8 years back, lifting several miles of coastline in the process, plus uplifts & horozontal moves inland. All of the Earthqaukes, along this subduction zone, tend to generate big movements. This last nearly 10 days, there have been several 4.3 + qaukes, and a couple over 5.4, all off shore from East Cape. I'm waiting for the next big one, which moves Wellington.
Thanks for another great upload. Your content and presentation is so good it would benefit from even greater depth and duration. Most of all thanks for not uploading in that dreadful unwatchable vertical orientation that is making so much of RU-vid unwatchable. Subscribed!
I visited NZ in '95. After seeing all the volcanoes, this does not surprise me. We in the US Pacific Northwest have a similar situation, volcanoes onshore and a subduction zone fault off shore. At least yours is fairly "recent". Our last one was 320 years ago!
I genuinely worry about that event. The Northwest is not AT ALL ready. We are talking about entire cities full of buildings that would not survive that kind of shaking, let alone what the tsunami would do after.
Great content, i studied geophysics at Auckland Uni, understanding how dynamic the NZ landscape truly is makes you also realise how destructive it can be. We all must be ready for the next big one
The next big one could very well spell the end for New Zealand. And a lot of these Earthquakes and sea quakes are not as "Natural" as one may be led to believe. That they are in fact Man made events.
@@thecelticprince4949 No. The Alpine fault (or Wellington fault, depending which 'big one' you mean) will rupture when it's ready. And it will be challenging on many fronts, but it won't 'end' us.
Keep these up, make them more in depth, longer with more history. I enjoy Nick Zedner's you tube posts on the pacific north west ... I know we have as much interesting geology.
Yes; the north island history is amazing; from the 1931 Napier earthquake, the 1886 volcanic eruption that buried the pink and white terraces on Lake Rotomahana, more, of course, much more; but these come to mind
@@bastogne315 Have you got anything better to do than Troll out stupid Neanderthal comments? White Island is part of that entire fault line, so yes it is.
That's an odd-looking gravity corer barrel, I can't tell if the liner is hanging out of the cutting shoe or if someone has tried fitting a friction reducer to the barrel (I've never seen that on a corer barrel before). I'm guessing it's a 3-meter barrel and the liner is hanging out.
@@petert3355 All the volcanoes in New Zealand are tectonic in nature. The Pacific plate gets to a point under the Australian plate where the lithos becomes lava and rises through the overburden to create volcanoes. Actually, you can see it in this video at 2:23 where she talks about the subduction zone. On the screen, the rising lava creates the volcanoes - Ruapehu is named.
actually the one in Canterbury and the one on the southern alps in the south island can and will produce large 8+ earthquakes. it's not just the one in the north island
And? That transform fault cannot produce events the size that the subduction zone can unleash. There is an enormous difference in size and destruction between an 8.2 earthquake and an 8.9 earthquake. Both the Alpine Fault and the subduction zone can produce an 8.2. Only the subduction zone can produce an 8.9.
The last 'great earthquake' before Tarawera & Christchurch was Mirchison/ Nelson was around 1927 (if I'm wrong my apologies). 100 yr anniversary of this happening is in 4 yrs time. Is there any data showing or is it possible this could happen again. First hand info about the Mirchison quake was shared to me by an elderly woman (80 yrs old in 2007 who was still active & very alert) was 7yrs old at the time this happened. Her parents owned a farm in the valley. Still vivid in her memory she talked about watching the mountains lifting, the farm buildings fall into a crack in the earth & her family scrambling for safety. Not meaning to scare... Just wanting to know more... Nga Mihi💜
She didn't mention that major fault keeps extending right down across the South Island and all the way down its West Coast and then out to sea at Haast.
Because the south island part of plate boundaries isn't a subduction zone. You still get earthquakes in the south island but not as likely to get tsunamis.
@@wayneshilcock3027ol mate likes to think he's a German fighter ace ww2. Tries to shoot people down with his 'Bot like' 3 word dismissive replies lmao..
What I'm asking is. Could ' coupling ' of the Australian and pacific plates, at the bottom of the north islands lower east coast. Could that be the reason area's of the coastline are rising out of the water, and the pressure caused by the 'stuck' plates is yet to be released. Also would the kaikoura earthquake, and the subsequent lifting of area's of coast during the event. Be futher evidence to support 'Coupling pressure'?
The New Zealand plate boundary fault can actually be seen in the South Island, for example at Gaunt Creek. Although there is no subduction happening there (as both sides of the fault are made of continental rock rather than oceanic vs continental), you can actually put your finger on the fault where the two plates meet. See www.geotrips.org.nz/trip.html?id=57
Well thing is, Iceland sits on a Mid Ocean Ridge where two plates move apart. In New Zealand there's a subduction zone where one plate goes beneath another one. With Iceland when these plates move apart magma moves up between the cracks. Under Iceland there's also a hotspot, or mantle plume, like the one under Hawaii, which supplies additional magma. In a subduction zone, as one plate moves downward, it heats up and starts melting. Some of the minerals that contain water melt, and the water reduces the melting point of the surrounding rock, producing magma. This magma is less dense than the rock around it so it rises until it meets the crust. If there are cracks in the crust this magma continues to rise until it either erupts at the surface as a volcano, or it stops because the cracks stop, and eventually cools.
@@sigisoltau6073 There are some interesting rocks that were formed in this way at Llanddwyn Island, Anglesey, Wales; they attract geologists from all over the world since they are quite unique in some way. I'm sure there will be something online describing the rocks there.
Volcanic and seismic activity seems to be constant lately , just in a single video i saw several volcanoes erupting in October . Whatever scientists might say we all know very well that nature is unpredictable , we can only study something afterwards and make conclusions based on research so far but nobody can tell for sure how big the next catastrophe will be or where it will happen . Of course is good to know as much as possible about faults and activity but only God can save us in the end . May God bless you all and keep you safe ! happy new Year
You only think it's 'constant lately' cause you haven't been paying attention, and it's a new field of study; we didn't even have Plate Tectonic theory before 1960s, and that's only 60 years ago. You're god is not gonna save you, though; if you think he's omnipotent, he's the one making the earthquakes and volcanoes and tsunamis killing people.
@@iatsd of course and he does exist. The difference between you and me is that i know he is up there when you believe he isn't. No worries tho, when you least expecting it, something will happen that will shake you to the very core, you will feel his presence, one way or another and in the end you will know exactly what happened... The same thing happened to me as well, i was not a believer either but guess what my friend... He came to me when i was at the "bottom" of the barrel and the shock was so intense it changed radically the way i see things ever since. Don't you worry, when the time is right you will have your own experience as well.
@mcchickenz you think so and i can respect that. If you think believing in God and sending wishes towards others is evil then i really think you are misled and a fanatic, someone who lost his life's meaning and his only protection but... That's my opinion. However things are not always as simple as they look and because i know it's not your fault i forgive you, i will pray for you and i wish you a better life !
@mcchickenz i don't know exactly how you got the impression that whoever believes in God sits there idly doing nothing but praying... 😂 😂 😂 Listen "mate" you are full of your opinion and lots of anger and i can't blame you for it because in the end of the day the almighty God gives me the power and calmness to be able to forgive those who don't know anything about his grace. Christians are not lazy as you might think and if you do... Well you're wrong but what really bothers me is not that... Is the fact that your anger shows who you are within and let me tell you son... Doesn't look good for you. Do as you wish, believe what you want, nobody is trying to patronize you or change your belief, just "calm the fuck down", allow yourself to burst your enormous ego and start breathing again before the remaining brain cells die on you from lack of oxygen, try to maintain your connection with reality for a while longer and you might, just might be able to realize you just had a tantrum over the internet with a total stranger who doesn't wish you any harm... 😂
Look at the rocks that are piled-up on the beach. There are signs of a previous civilization in the shape of those rocks. Those rocks have to be from somewhere else or there was a previous civilization buried below the sea in is now re-emerging.
That would mean that a huge earthquake happens "near" to New Zealand, it is more likely that a large earthquake will happen at New Zealand and the tsunami would radiate away from NZ. But we are talking about mother nature and anything is possible. New Zealand experiences many earthquakes (mainly small) everyday, and it is still unpredictable when the next huge earthquake will happen and it could be at any fault line around the world.
@@CallemJayNZ you are judging others from the past with today’s standards yes he may be an arsehole now with our standards but give him a rest he found New Zealand
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When are we gunna get an earthquake early warning system like Japan has? Whenever a quake magnitude 4 or higher happens there, their phones give every citizen a 10~30sec advance warning of incoming 'quake, giving people time to get to safety.
If you have a pet animal that vocalises, (dogs bark, cats miauw, parakeets sound off) you would get 15 minutes warning of an earthquake. So I found when talking to pet owners after a ’quake in Wellington many years ago. They all said they were woken at 04·00 hrs, and the ’quake struck at 04·15 hrs; magnitude 6·8. Who needs technology? Get a live animal: much more interesting!
Great bit of work. Given the government poor response to the Christchurch earthquakes I would say more effort on how we would look after people and property better. Recent time events hsve showed we are extremely poorly equipped, seek to quickly monetize the situation and shift responsibilities with political white noise.
@@Kaslidaughterofchaos You are laughing so hard you are crying? Why? What is funny about tectonic activity and volcanism disrupting or destroying lives? Were you in Christchurch for either of the earthquakes? I was there for the first one and no one in the house I was in was crying with laughter.
@@Kaslidaughterofchaos I guess I'm not young enough to appreciate your sense of humour. It would take a twelve-year-old to see the funny side of your "joke". bro...
From a geological, planetary scale, perspective, it's nothing. At the local level would be huge. I lived in Wellington, so know what its like in a quake, even a "small" (5.5) one.
It was us though. "The underarm bowling incident of 1981 took place on 1 February 1981, when Australia played New Zealand in a One Day International cricket match, the third in the best-of-five final of the 1980-81 World Series Cup, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.[1] With one ball of the final over remaining, New Zealand required a six to tie the match. To ensure that New Zealand did not get the runs they needed, the Australian captain, Greg Chappell, instructed his bowler (and younger brother), Trevor Chappell, to deliver the last ball to Brian McKechnie underarm, along the ground." Your words are invalid
@@paulav7961 True it was. It just seems NZ and world media making out THIS ONE to be bigger than it actually was, i mean cmon you havent felt them like that before?
Fossil shells that "tell us" that area was once down by the shore... Well, another explanation is that they were perhaps washed up by a past tsunami... I mean, I'm no geologists, but it is a possibility. Just saying.
Maui Ark to save humanity, Rocket Lab right outside direct line to Rangi. Papatuanuku rising from the Moana, 1.5 metres to 10 metres in some places, Hikurangi Wow the world watching the next one.100 foot tusunami ,by then Aotearoa NZ would be fully out of the water, 800 feet.
New Zealand doesn't sound to stable a place to live. George Carlin once said......' People build their house at the base of a volcano, and wonder why there's lava in the living room !
Hehehe, We actually haven't seen much lava in New Zealand, that's the nature of these volcanoes and no we don't have houses near any live volcanoes. The White Island volcano that recently erupted is an uninhabited island about 100+ miles out to sea, an adventure tourist destination, sadly with these deaths, not any more.
@@wayneshilcock3027 All you've done is shown your pettislip. If you don't know it, it can't be known. Rangitoto is, indeed, an active volcano and the thing about eruptions is they are unpredictable. Could happen any old time.
And there was me thinking how nice NZ would be to live in.... just a little worry that your house may need to resist a 8+ earthquake, and anywhere near the coast is at risk of a biblical flood. Excitement unlimited in the next 1,000 years for sure. a 1:20 chance of being unlucky in a sentient lifetime 20 - 70.
What I have been trying to get through Kiwis "thick as" sculls for years, This is not some "Naturally" occurring phenomenon, but a man made thing using secret weapons and suppressed technology in order to bring about the destruction of this country and its people. Keep burying your heads in the sand Kiwis.
The reason for seismic activity in New Zealand is the sheer mass of many millions of sheep and cattle weighing the North and South Island down into the Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone. To offset this, the NZ government encourages many of their residents to reside in Australia, but the Liberal Australian government uncaringly sends them back. 🙄
