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You're 500km north of epicentre and felt that. Im 150km south of epicentre and felt nothing.
by cconcepts 10y ago
You're 500km north of epicentre and felt that. Im 150km south of epicentre and felt nothing.
- jaredtobin 10y agoWe even felt it up in Auckland. It woke my partner and I up and made the building creak and flex a bit.
- antod 10y agoWellington isn't 500km away :) It looks like the quoted epicentre was just the start point of the rupture that headed off to the northeast. Which explains why the shaking seemed worse to the north and why so much activity seems to be recorded from the Seddon area again: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000778i#map http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000778i#... In Wellington it seemed like the first half was just a gentle swaying before it really kicked in for the second half. That was probably the rupture moving closer. I found this really interesting: The USGS talks about quakes of this magnitude usually have a wide scale area of slippage eg they've modelled 200x60 km for this one: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000778i#executive http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000778i#... http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000778i#shakemap http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000778i#...