[Ag-eq] {Spam?} From Your "Shaky Isles" reporter

[Nella Foster]

Jewel that all sounds pretty scary.

The state of Oklahoma has been having lots of smaller earth quakes and I can
feel some of them here.  People think that it may be due to the fracking
that is being done there.  I really don't like the feeling of my whole house
shaking.

Nella



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Wellington, our capital city, though not our largest:
that honour goes to Auckland, where a third of New Zealand's  entire
population live, sits right on top of a major fault, and one day, and who
knows when that day will come, but come it, surely, will, awaits a

catastrophic earthquake, an earthquake which could have a magnitude far
beyond  that of Christchurch's 6.3, or Hamner's

readjusted to 7.8.
Wellington is, perhaps 200 miles from Hamner, nevertheless, it has received
some significant damage and several buildings

are going to be pulled down as they are in a dangerous condition and could
collapse the next time Wellington gets all shook

up.!
If the epicentre had been, virtually, under Wellington's foundations  as it
was with Christchurch, the damage would have

been of huge proportions, so the wake-up alarm of November 14 should have
given Wellingtonians and the civil authorities

something to think about as it is obvious that much needs to be done if the
city is to survive when the, inevitable,

big'un strikes.
Speaking of the Cook Strait fault, let's take a little flight of fancy into
Aotearoa's past by jumping into our.

conveniently,  waiting Tardus, set the time journey clock for 20,000 years
ago, when New Zealand was
1 island, not the 2

that it now is.
Fortunately, our machine lands on the tippy-tippy-top of the Seaward
Kaikoura, and don't be tempted to move because of

what is about to happen and that is the overnight creation of what, 20,000
years later came to be called, Cook Strait, or

is it Cook's Strait?  I prefer Cook Strait as James Cook bestowed his name
upon it because, as far as he knew, he was the

first European to sail through it;  however,  his descendants do not hold
the title deeds to it as would be suggested if it

was Cook's Strait!
Of course, the Maoris had, for hundreds of years, been travelling between
the 2 islands in their fizz boats!  Disregard the

* fizz boats:  just another flight of fancy!
Anyway, back to the motley.  On, we shall say, Friday, the 13th pick what
month and year you like, in one cataclysmic

earthquake, the island was split asunder, from coast to coast, in a north
westerly/south easterly direction, to an average

depth of 500 feet, and 14 miles at its narrowest point.
This valley was, immediately, filled by the raging waters of the South
Pacific Ocean on the east coast and those of the

Tasman Sea on the west!
Not, technically, part of Cook Strait, but nearby is the Hikurangi Trench
which is bounded by the Kaikoura peninsula.  The

Hikurangi Trench is about 3,000 feet deep and is the home of a permanent
population of sperm whales which, other than

fishing, provide the main source of income for the small town:  population
of around 3,000.  A thriving whale-watching

business is run by the local branch of Naitahu, the extended tribe of the
South Island Maori.
Some years ago, the National Geographic magazine sent a team of divers there
to search for the, elusive, giant squid, but

they did not find any, but it is deduced that they must be there because
they are the favourite prey of the sperm whale,

many of whom display the scars of the wounds that were inflicted when coming
into contact  with the big buggers!


Monday's fun and games stranded many overseas tourists in Kaikoura and the
rnzn Canterbury was 
dispatched taking supplies

in and evacuees out.
A cow was rescued from a paddock where she had been grazing, the bulk of
which had disappeared in a 
landslide and left the

cow, still grazing?  on a little island in the midst of the wreckage.
On the other hand, a major colony of the protected fur seal was wiped out by
a rockfall and as this 
is the height of the

puppy season, the colony was jammed with newborn and young pups.  It is not
known how many of the 
seals have survived.
Although there was only a very small tsunami, the seabed was, seriously,
disturbed and several tons 
of Paua [abalone] and

other shellfish were torn from the rocks.  Greenpeace and DOC [department of
Conservation] divers 
have gone down to find as

many of the living victims as they can and return them to rocks where they
can reattach themselves.
I try to get my facts correct, and I apologise for any mistakes that I might
have made.
I did a search on Wikipedia for facts on Cook Strait, but I didn't find much
of what I asked for, 
such as, the length of

the strait, the width at it widest point and when it was formed etc, but I
couldn't find the answers 
I wanted.
They may have been there but as I examined only the first 20 of the 700
links, the majority of which 
were not about * Cook

Strait, even  though I had stipulated that it was * Cook Straight that I
wanted.
One interesting little extra that I did find is that the channel that
separates Vancouver Island 
from mainland British

Columbia is Queen Charlotte Strait or channel that is an offshoot of Queen
Charlotte Sound.  We also 
have a Queen Charlotte

Sound and it is at the head of QCS where Picton is to be found, the southern
terminal for the 
inter-island ferry, where

there was enough damage to port facilities for the ferry service to be
cancelled.

           Jewel 


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