Friday, March 5, 2021

EARTHQUAKES, TSUNAMI WARNINGS AND GARDEN

I didn't have a particularly good night, in fact I spent most of it awake.  Various reasons but one of them might have been an earthquake off East Cape that may well have woken me as it was felt over most of New Zealand.

There has been a swarm of earthquakes including some large ones around New Zealand and the Kermadec Islands and these generated Tsunami warnings.  Our phones have been going mad with screaming alerts.  First my phone has the alert then Doug's a few minutes later.  

People were evacuated from the coast and the Whangarei CBD was also evacuated being at sea level.  Luckily we are quite high up so no problems.

We had intended going to the Bay of Islands this week but our car had a problem and the earliest it could be worked on was today as the garage is so busy.  If we had been up north we would have had to go to higher ground as the hotel is at sea level.  

As it was our car could not be worked on as Nissan had shut for the day due to the Tsunami alerts and a part was needed.  The garage had checked the part was in stock but left it till today to buy it.

Luckily there were only tidal surges and no damage done. and the alerts were lifted after lunch.

I have been busy in the garden removing most  of the tomato plants and everything is looking a lot tidier.

This is a map of the earthquakes on earth today.  As you can see there are an awful lot around us.







20 comments:

  1. I was just this minute hearing about it on the news, asking people to move to higher ground. I believe there are earthquakes in Iceland too.

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    1. I have just added a map of the earthquakes on earth today.

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  2. Those were big earthquakes. We have been watching the alerts. Oddly enough my replies in the Bay didn't even feel it but say waves are much larger than normal. The one off the Kermadecs was 8.2, bigger than Fukashikma. I hope that's the end of all the activity!!

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    1. I think there will be more aftershocks but hopefully no damage.

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  4. I thought about you when I heard about the evacuations, so am glad to hear you were safe. Hope your car gets fixed soon. Mxx

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    1. We went into town this morning and when we got home there was a message to say the car was ready and we went straight back out and collected it. Great service.

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  5. Even Whanganui had higher waves than usual, though no Tsunami warnings, being on the west.
    Glad you are all in one piece!

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    1. We are lucky being able to stay put but the whole of the CBD, Town Basin etc had to evacuate as well as the seaside communities. It could hae been very nasty if a large wave had hit.

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  6. When I saw the news last night of the earthquakes and Tsunami, I immediately became concerned about you and Doug. I am so glad that you are on higher ground and out of danger.

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    1. Thanks for your concern Arleen. Yes, it is all uphill coming home from town. Most of it not steep but still a hill.

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  7. according to Geonet already 72 shakes today ranging from unnoticeable to moderate ( 4.0 ). Love your map, I tried to download the Geonet one showing the circles yesterday but it didn't allow that,We only felt the first big one, but I did see that early on over 25,000 felt the second one. Hope we stay safe today, and thank goodness the ship with scientists and students were not there, that had been cancelled because of Auckland's alert level.

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    1. I just had a look at Geonet and the earthquakes are very frequent. I see there was a 6.1 at 1.16 pm. I liked the map you had on your blog. To get my one I used "print screen" and then cropped it.

      Yes, it could have been really serious if the scientists and students had been on Raoul.

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  8. It's the era of climate change.
    I often think of the people living under an active volcano (like Vesuvium, Etna in Italy), and those living on islands(especially the tiny islands in the seas and oceans).
    In spite of the very advanced alertness systems, people might not make it to a safe place after all, and God Forbid, the lava and zunami might swallow it all - place and people. Governments of tiny islands have appealed to the UN, but nobody does anything about it.

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    1. Yes, there are lot of Pacific Islands in danger of disappearing with the rise in tides. I would not want to live on the side of a volcano.

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  9. We were keeping an eye on what was happening here too, good to see it finally ended up being only a surge instead of something major.

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    1. Yes it could have been nasty. A lot of evacuation here.

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  10. Earthquakes are always a bit scary – will it be the big one? I remember when I lived in San Francisco there were so many little earthquakes – I never got used to them. Thankfully you are OK.

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  11. The forces of nature put us in our place, I'm pleased that you were lucky enough to avoid the worst of the earthquakes. It's seems strange to hear you talk about pulling up your Tomatoes when I'm trying to get our growing.

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