Canterbury Earthquakes

[Manukau heads obs]

We missed it by that Much

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

We missed it by that Much

Should of stayed down here a bit longer..

,....but then

[Orion]

Does anyone know whether Geonet is still sending out text information on quakes Mag4+ [or 5+ as selected] as they used to?

[LittleTreeHouse]

Im not gettin them anymore, maybe the text bill got too high!

[Storm Struck]

A 4.6 (now reviewed) - strongest one in the region in 6 months.

Yeah strongest since July 6th 2012 when a 4.8 struck also in Rolleston, i have kept records of the qaukes to show my kids etc in the future how many we had.
It was a long loud and strong shake here, not enough to get me out of my chair but enough to order up another drink.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

I wasn't in the room but our telly shook but didn't fall over.
I don't think I'll file a report to Geonet this time as lots of others would of filled one out as this was more noticable.

[Razor]

reasonable shake just now to the south- looks to have been centred off the Lake Ellemere coast. 'New' faultline in this sequence? Historically in the 1800's there was a 5.5 approx in the middle of the lake.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

reasonable shake just now to the south- looks to have been centred off the Lake Ellemere coast. 'New' faultline in this sequence? Historically in the 1800's there was a 5.5 approx in the middle of the lake.

Yeah, noticed that.
Strongest one in that area,which has not been subjected to many earthquake activity with this series of earthquakes, that is from Sept 4th 2010.

[Storm Struck]

Theres a pretty big shingle fan/shelf off the coast there from what ive heard and that would not be too flash if that collapsed on the sea floor in a decent shake, i always wondered how the shingle got there at Ellesmere turns out the Waimak river once drained into Ellesmere thousands of years ago and thats also why Prebbleton and Rolleston are built on solid rock.
I think its actually now called the Selwyn river if im correct but obviously much smaller.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Theres a pretty big shingle fan/shelf off the coast there from what ive heard and that would not be too flash if that collapsed on the sea floor in a decent shake, i always wondered how the shingle got there at Ellesmere turns out the Waimak river once drained into Ellesmere thousands of years ago and thats also why Prebbleton and Rolleston are built on solid rock.
I think its actually now called the Selwyn river if im correct but obviously much smaller.

I was told that the Waimakariri did actualy flow towards the Lake Ellesmere direction millions of years ago, thats why the ground below here is quite stoney.

[Storm Struck]

How dare she sneak up on us like that on the anniversary, good long moaning rumble then a rattle of the doors 3.9 magnitude 15km east of South New Brighton.
Same area just a few kilometres from a 3.7 at 3am, didnt feel that one but i heard a 2.3 magnitude of all things this evening near eyrewell forest off South Eyre Road.
Normally wouldnt notice that but when your immune to them and the ground seems to very hollow at the moment, the seismic waves seem to travel more so.
Its quite hard to explain unless you live here through so many different quakes and land changes.

[Orion]

I'm just keeping an eye on the Methven area, where one of my spies is located, as there have been four little quakes around this spot over the past eight or nine days [as shown with a search on Canterbury Quake Live]....
This is the latest little twitch:
http://www.geonet.org.nz/quakes/region/ ... 013p147337

[Razor]

Nice shake just now, 4.1 out to the SW of the city

First wobble over 4 on the scale since mid January in the Canty 'zone'...just to remind people .

[bmo]

Was a pretty good shake in Lincoln!

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Nothing much here.

[tich]

4.0 this early morning out in Pegasus Bay, east from Kaiapoi/Woodened. Only just felt it (was awake), due to distance from Chch. Not sure I'd call it an aftershock, as epicentre was further away from the other aftershocks of recent times. I think several similar size earthquakes have occurred in that area over the last few decades.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Nice rumble at 10:26am this morning. First one felt here for months.
I noticed that during this period of 'fowl' weather, there weren't any quakes in Canterbury for 3 days.
It must be the longest prolonged period of the absence of earthquakes for Canterbury since Sept 4th 2010 ?
....unless the seimicgraph broke down and they had to 'change the paper'

[Richard]

Felt a good shunt from the quake centred west of of Culverden at 4.37 pm,i see it was a 4.75 and felt in CHCH

[Storm Struck]

Didn't feel it here and was sitting down at the time, but felt one yesterday 3.4 near Rolleston its been ping ponging between Marlborough and Canterbury the last few days.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Didn't feel it here, Richard, but the one just after 11am yesterday gave the house a bit of a "Hey Bud, We are still Here" sort of a notion about it. , centered just up the road.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Interesting shudder here around 11am today as I was sitting here at the computers.
There was a distant rumbling sound and the French doors slightly shuddered for about 20 odd seconds.
I thought, "Uh Oh, a earthquake in Seddon?" but then as I opened the French doors, the rumbly sound was from a coal train , probably an MT one rolling through Rolleston, but it was interesting that it caused the doors to slightly rattle as the railway is 5 kilometres from here.
There was nothing on Geonet or Chris Crow's sites mentioning an earthquake at that time

[Orion]

8:02am, alerted to quake by rattling of glass cabinet doors

http://www.geonet.org.nz/quakes/region/ ... 013p653606

[Richard]

yep not a bad one

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Yes. There was abit of shake and a rumble here but didn't feal like 4.2M as what they said considering the depth and distance from here.

[03Stormchaser]

Nice shake this arvo:

http://www.geonet.org.nz/quakes/region/ ... 013p708602