Thursday, November 3, 2011

Shaken up & blown around

I managed to miss yesterday's couple of shakes just off the Blenheim coast, I probably thought it was just the wind.

The following earthquake has been recorded by GNS:

Reference number: 3603873/G
Universal Time: 2011/11/01 22:41:59
Local time (NZDT): 11:41 AM on Wednesday 02 November 2011
Latitude, Longitude: 41.63S, 174.28E
NZ Map Grid (E, N): 2617000, 5953000
NZ Trans Merc (E, N): 1707000, 5391000
Location: 30 km south-east of Blenheim
Focal depth: 15
Magnitude: 4.9

Web page: http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/quakes/3603873g.html
Web service: http://www.geonet.org.nz/services/quake/3603873g

and it was followed a bit over an hour later by a second smaller quake:

The following earthquake has been recorded by GNS:

Reference number: 3603917/G
Universal Time: 2011/11/02 00:28:38
Local time (NZDT): 01:28 PM on Wednesday 02 November 2011
Latitude, Longitude: 41.63S, 174.28E
NZ Map Grid (E, N): 2617000, 5953000
NZ Trans Merc (E, N): 1707000, 5391000
Location: 30 km south-east of Blenheim
Focal depth: 15
Magnitude: 3.9

Web page: http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/quakes/3603917g.html
Web service: http://www.geonet.org.nz/services/quake/3603917g

Don't forget to fill in the Felt Quake report if you did manage to tell the shaking of the earth from the shaking of the wind.

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