http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/strong-magnitude-69-earthquake-strikes-off-new-zealand-coast-rattling-capital-wellington/2013/07/21/61b9a1a2-f1ca-11e2-b2e0-0ecd9d3227c0_story.html
It made the news. On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 1:40 AM, David Mann <dmann...@gmail.com> wrote: > During the past few days there has been a spate of earthquakes just southwest > of our capital city, Wellington. They've been fairly small, up to mid-5 in > magnitude, but they had a 6.5 earlier this afternoon which might just about > be big enough to make the news. > > It's been reported in our local news site as a 6.8 but GNS have since revised > it to 6.5. > > I haven't heard any reports of damage or casualties but I don't anticipate > much. I actually felt it here but it was very subtle. It took about 2 > minutes to get here :) > > I'm hoping they don't get anything much bigger than that but if our country > falls off the face of the earth soon you'll know why. There's a long history > of seismicity in that area with major ones in 1848, 1855, and a couple in > 1942. > > Cheers, > Dave > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
