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

[Jody ianuzzi]

Hi Jewel,

Oh that was really fascinating! I enjoyed it very much! Amazing to think that the island could be split in two like that! It would be interesting to get into the TARDIS and see what the future would bring for the geology of the earth

Jody

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> On Nov 17, 2016, at 7:17 AM, Nella Foster via Ag-eq <ag-eq at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [Ag-eq] {Spam?} From Your "Shaky Isles" reporter
> 
> 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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