7.8 Earthquake, Kermadec Islands July 06 2011 19:03 UTC, Tsunami Warning

The warning for the coast has been lifted, however marine interests still remain at warning levels due to the meter high surge (remember a Tsunami can be more than one surge), aswell as localised bay/tidal amplification seeing its currently Slack-Water atm.

RT @NZStuff: Update: Emergency vehicles in Whangarei are driving around broadcasting a warning. #tsunami #updates

Originally posted by DarkSarcasm

Originally posted by welshbeliever
i had a dodgy 7/11 dream in may but it had a spanish feel to it?
www.abovetopsecret.com...

Just read that thread a bit and noticed, October is the tenth month not the eleventh so instead of October 7th it would be November. But it could have been July 2011as you mentioned as well.
In addition, I'm not 100% on this but wasn't new Zealand settled by Spaniards as well as others, if so, this could explain the Spanish architecture mentioned.

good spotting...i never noticed that either .
never been to new zeland or spain so wouldnt know sorry.

well according to the nz herald there will be no tsunami (thank god) but there is a marine threat and they urge people to stay out of the water due to strong unpredictable currents

LATEST NEWS: Marine surge warning

Originally posted by Vozda
reply to post by DarkSarcasm

 

No, i know i'v read it somewhere else about 7/7 but im having trouble to find it.. ill edit if i find it, if you are faster then me post ill watch this thread!

sorry, won't be able to continue my search, I've seen a couple but not the one that stuck out to me back when it was posted. I'm headed to the grocery store to get some air conditioning. I'll catch up when I get back.

Has there been any aftershocks yet? I'm not seeing any on my android EQ app.

Hoping this is not a foreshock to a much bigger event. What's weird is that there have been a lot of 'prediction' threads, especially on GLP regarding a massive tsnumani hitting Australia.

Originally posted by Disconnected Sociopath
Has there been any aftershocks yet? I'm not seeing any on my android EQ app.

This one just popped up on USGS a few minutes ago:

This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

Magnitude 5.3
Date-Time

Wednesday, July 06, 2011 at 21:04:03 UTC
Thursday, July 07, 2011 at 09:04:03 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 29.337°S, 176.114°W
Depth 16.8 km (10.4 miles)
Region KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
Distances 174 km (108 miles) E of Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands
354 km (219 miles) NE of L'Esperance Rock, Kermadec Islands
913 km (567 miles) S of NUKU`ALOFA, Tonga
1191 km (740 miles) NE of Auckland, New Zealand
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 18.7 km (11.6 miles); depth +/- 5.4 km (3.4 miles)
Parameters NST=124, Nph=145, Dmin=177 km, Rmss=0.91 sec, Gp= 54°,
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=6
Source

USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID usc0004phu

Originally posted by Aggie Man

Originally posted by Disconnected Sociopath
Has there been any aftershocks yet? I'm not seeing any on my android EQ app.

This one just popped up on USGS a few minutes ago:

This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

Magnitude 5.3
Date-Time

Wednesday, July 06, 2011 at 21:04:03 UTC
Thursday, July 07, 2011 at 09:04:03 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 29.337°S, 176.114°W
Depth 16.8 km (10.4 miles)
Region KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
Distances 174 km (108 miles) E of Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands
354 km (219 miles) NE of L'Esperance Rock, Kermadec Islands
913 km (567 miles) S of NUKU`ALOFA, Tonga
1191 km (740 miles) NE of Auckland, New Zealand
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 18.7 km (11.6 miles); depth +/- 5.4 km (3.4 miles)
Parameters NST=124, Nph=145, Dmin=177 km, Rmss=0.91 sec, Gp= 54°,
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=6
Source

USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID usc0004phu

Yep I'm seeing a 5.3 and a 5.6 showing up now.

I'll still be watching this area very closely though because if the Japan event taught us anything there was a pretty big 7 + mag quake with many aftershocks that preceded the 9.1 quake 3 days later.

Also does anybody know if this is a megathrust faultline where todays quake happened?

Originally posted by Disconnected Sociopath

Originally posted by Aggie Man

Originally posted by Disconnected Sociopath
Has there been any aftershocks yet? I'm not seeing any on my android EQ app.

This one just popped up on USGS a few minutes ago:

This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

Magnitude 5.3
Date-Time

Wednesday, July 06, 2011 at 21:04:03 UTC
Thursday, July 07, 2011 at 09:04:03 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 29.337°S, 176.114°W
Depth 16.8 km (10.4 miles)
Region KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
Distances 174 km (108 miles) E of Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands
354 km (219 miles) NE of L'Esperance Rock, Kermadec Islands
913 km (567 miles) S of NUKU`ALOFA, Tonga
1191 km (740 miles) NE of Auckland, New Zealand
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 18.7 km (11.6 miles); depth +/- 5.4 km (3.4 miles)
Parameters NST=124, Nph=145, Dmin=177 km, Rmss=0.91 sec, Gp= 54°,
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=6
Source

USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID usc0004phu

Yep I'm seeing a 5.3 and a 5.6 showing up now.

I'll still be watching this area very closely though because if the Japan event taught us anything there was a pretty big 7 + mag quake with many aftershocks that preceded the 9.1 quake 3 days later.

Also does anybody know if this is a megathrust faultline where todays quake happened?

Really, this is new information to me. Changes my perspective of todayss events a bit. Thanks for the info and the reminder for those that already knew. Hmmm.

Originally posted by XPLodER
well im here in nz on the coast
i hope there is no sunami as there is very little places high enough around auckland
our civil defence is still activly warning of sunami

Kia ora from a fellow kiwi I'm in Auckland, and I can think of many, many places high enough for even a very large tsunami like Japans recent one. A city like Christchurch would be tough as it's so flat unless you're by lyttleton hills, but Auckland has a vastly varying terrain and many of the 50 or so volcanoes would provide ample high ground on both sides of the harbour. And there are the Waitakere's if it get's really, really serious. I'm on the Shore, and my house should be safe unless we get a massive tsunami in the region of 30m+, in which case I would walk a 100m up the hill on my road.

As others have posted, there is currently no tsunami threat for NZ, but we may see stronger than usual currents for the next 24 hours.

Tsunami warning for New Zealand cancelled
LATEST: Civil Defence has cancelled a tsunami warning for New Zealand which had been triggered by a powerful quake in the Pacific.

New Zealand Civil Defence said it expected a swell generated by a powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake which struck near the Kermadec Islands, to cause strong currents but not damage to the land.

Civil Defence said the advice from GNS Science was that the tsunami did not represent a threat to New Zealand.

However, scientists expected that there would be unusually strong tidal surges and currents.

Tsunami warning for New Zealand cancelled

reply to post by Lionhearte


This is very interesting, the eq's have picked up since about a month ago mainly see 5+ mag now also I do believe there is more destruction ahead for the ring of fire thus it has been awkened

Originally posted by DarkSarcasm
I've always wanted to visit new Zealand but I think ill be waiting a few years for these continuous large quakes to become less frequent.

edit on 6-7-2011 by DarkSarcasm because: (no reason given)

Oh come now.

You mean you're NOT going to take advantage of the disaster tourism discount specials?

Originally posted by DarkSarcasm

In addition, I'm not 100% on this but wasn't new Zealand settled by Spaniards as well as others, if so, this could explain the Spanish architecture mentioned.

These are the main Spaniards in the country. They are ubiquitous in many of our montane outdoor areas and are right pricks:
www.rnzih.org.nz...


Otherwise, yes, we have had Spanish immigrants, but the main influence is British. There is 'pseudo-Spanish' architecture in places, but it isn't everywhere.


Spain, however, is an antipode to New Zealand: www.antipodemap.com...

reply to post by westcoast


SBX

reply to post by TechUnique


it doesnt happen that fast dude damn

this is the work of the HAARP there's no doubt folks!

Originally posted by Phage

EVALUATION

THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER HAS ISSUED A NON-EXPANDING
REGIONAL TSUNAMI WARNING FOR A PART OF THE PACIFIC NEAR THE
EARTHQUAKE. BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA THERE IS NO DESTRUCTIVE
TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII.

ptwc.weather.gov...

LINK DOES NOT WORK!

Originally posted by mandella1099

Originally posted by Phage

EVALUATION

THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER HAS ISSUED A NON-EXPANDING
REGIONAL TSUNAMI WARNING FOR A PART OF THE PACIFIC NEAR THE
EARTHQUAKE. BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA THERE IS NO DESTRUCTIVE
TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII.

ptwc.weather.gov...

LINK DOES NOT WORK!

The link not working TOO is the work of haarp!

Oh, the evil!

Going to flag this one for sure. 7.8 is a big shake indeed. Hope theres not a bigger one to come. If we had a tusami here in Canterbury, we would be washed away. If the waves arrived at the high tide. It would be devastating. Our tides here in Kaiapoi are at the highst i have seen since the march high tides when the moon was at its closest. And we aint that close to a full moon yet.
www.stuff.co.nz...
This link shows our tide here in CH CH. Imagine if we had a 1 metre tusami on top of this.

Some news coverage.

Someone earllier in the thread said they saw a warning about 7/7/11. Heres a link to before its news.
______beforeitsnews/story/741/724/Elenin_-_7-7_Warning.html

Dont really beleive. We will see.

Wow I really hope the tsunami is pointed in a different direction. NZ isn't the biggest island.