Brooke Clarke wrote: > When you look at the time difference between the recent events on a geologic > scale you could say they all happened at the same time.
Hi Brooke, I'm writing from my home in Christchurch, New Zealand. "Local Time" of the event is an important variable. Last Saturday we had a 7.1 Richter magnitude event here, which was higher than that of Haiti (where there were 230,000 deaths). We had no loss of life in Christchurch mainly because it happened at 4:35 am local time, and because of our building code, as per: http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/4096880/Why-we-re-not-Haiti We are still experiencing magnitude 5 aftershocks here as I speak, and for those who like graphs, here is a live feed of the seismograph from Christchurch. http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/drums/mqz-drum.html I now know my home can withstand a magnitude 7.1 earthquake, but it is a test that many houses in Christchurch have failed. Regards, Geoff. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
