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Dec 24, 2011 8:09 AM CST Earthquakes in Christchurch New Zealand AGAIN
HealthyLiving
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Christchurch rocked by earthquakes
By NZHERALD STAFF and APNZ
Friday December 23, 2011

A series of earthquakes have terrified many already-frazzled Christchurch residents this afternoon, starting with a 5.8 magnitude tremor at 1.58pm.

It was followed by a 6.0 magnitude aftershock at 3.18pm, centred 10km east of Christchurch in South New Brighton.

There was also a 5.3 magnitude quake at 2.06pm and a 5.0 at 4.50pm.

Initial reports said one person had received minor injuries, although St John had responded to 19 earthquake-related emergency calls in and around Christchurch.

They ranged from complaints of chest pain and seizures, to a panic attack.

Five people had collapsed, and one suffered a knock to the head.

St John said all injuries were minor.

Police say there is no tsunami threat, and they have no reports of serious or widespread damage or injury.

Civil Defence staff have met on the ground in Christchurch to get a good picture of the extent of impact, but national civil defence controller David Coetzee said it was too early to comment on the way forward.

He said while there were no reports of serious damage, buildings that were already weakened in previous earthquakes may have sustained further damage.

"There will be further aftershocks. This event pretty much takes the pattern of the June event," he said, referring to a strong aftershocks in Christchurch that month.

"Be aware of further aftershocks. Drop, cover and hold remains the old mantra. Look after each other, look after the neighbours, stay safe and call 111 or the council if you need help."

This is just terrible. I Pray for the people in Christchurch, that they can get through the Christmas holiday free from worry of another quake and serious aftershocks.

HLsad flower
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Dec 24, 2011 8:17 AM CST Earthquakes in Christchurch New Zealand AGAIN
carenza
carenzacarenzanear the sea, South Holland Netherlands82 Threads 1 Polls 3,113 Posts
sad flower

hope all of my kiwi frieds and their families will be safe.
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Dec 24, 2011 8:43 AM CST Earthquakes in Christchurch New Zealand AGAIN
RayfromUSA
RayfromUSARayfromUSAvienne, Rhone-Alpes France86 Threads 29 Polls 6,611 Posts
Sounds like its about time to sacrifice a virgin.
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Dec 24, 2011 8:55 AM CST Earthquakes in Christchurch New Zealand AGAIN
HealthyLiving
HealthyLivingHealthyLivingSomewhere In, Tennessee USA527 Threads 2 Polls 4,775 Posts
RayfromUSA: Sounds like its about time to sacrifice a virgin.



rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing

Do you think there may be one on CS who would Volunteer?

HLdunno
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Dec 24, 2011 9:07 AM CST Earthquakes in Christchurch New Zealand AGAIN
johnaustin123
johnaustin123johnaustin123Eastlake, Ohio USA76 Threads 16 Polls 4,330 Posts
RayfromUSA: Sounds like its about time to sacrifice a virgin.


rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing That would make a great thread! Are there any Virgins on CS?

A series of strong earthquakes hit the New Zealand city of Christchurch on Friday, sending goods toppling from shelves, causing rockfalls and driving terrified residents from buildings 10 months after a quake killed almost 200 people in the city.

Christchurch police said there were no reports of casualties or widespread damage, although one person had been reported hurt at a shopping mall and taken to hospital.

An initial 5.8-magnitude earthquake was centered 12 miles northeast of the city at a very shallow depth of 5 miles, according to New Zealand's civil defense. It was followed by a series of strong aftershocks, one of a 5.3 magnitude but no tsunami warning was issued.

The tremors struck as shoppers thronged malls in the lead-up to Christmas and prompted many residents to flee the city, clogging roads.

"It was incredibly violent," one caller told Radio New Zealand.

"All the water in my birdbath slopped out and I could hear everything falling over inside. When I walked inside, the cat streaked out the door, ornaments were all over the floor, contents of the pantry were lying on the floor, a little bit of smashed glass and picture frames lying over."

Christchurch, the largest city in New Zealand's South Island, is still recovering from a quake measuring 6.3 which killed 182 people in February and caused up to $20 billion (New Zealand; US$15.5 billion) in damage. A strong but less damaging quake struck Christchurch in September last year.

Power cut, airport shut
Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker said the series of shakes had shattered the nerves of people who had been slowly getting their lives back to normal.

"It has been a long hard road, 15 months ... and people had dared to hope that the aftershocks were over," said Parker.

"I think there will be more damage to buildings, nothing significant, no major collapses just little bits of more debris."

"It's terrible timing, you can't underestimate the impact of this on people on the psychological level, they've been exposed to so much and it felt like it was getting better, and it just puts the work back, the repairs back, the rebuild back."

Ambulance services said they treated 18 people for panic attacks and anxiety.

Large areas of Christchurch's central business district are still off-limits after the February quake, which toppled the city's famous cathedral, as well as shops, homes and office buildings.

About 6,000 homes in the city were condemned after the February quake.

The latest quake caused some large rock falls in the hills around the city but none had fallen onto houses or roads around the nearby port town of Lyttelton which was extensively damaged in the February quake.
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Dec 24, 2011 9:37 AM CST Earthquakes in Christchurch New Zealand AGAIN
johnaustin123
johnaustin123johnaustin123Eastlake, Ohio USA76 Threads 16 Polls 4,330 Posts
This is from February 21, 2011:

Dramatic aerial video: Strong earthquake hits Christchurch, New Zealand

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Jan 12, 2012 7:45 PM CST Earthquakes in Christchurch New Zealand AGAIN
johnaustin123
johnaustin123johnaustin123Eastlake, Ohio USA76 Threads 16 Polls 4,330 Posts
This is a bit off topic because it deals more about weather patterns and Global Warming. As you will see in this video, the North Pole is moving and shifting,going Northwest into Russia. This is causing our milder weather in The United States this winter.

If the North Pole is shifting, I would believe that it may have something to do with Earthquakes.

This is why I'm not so hot with Global Warming:

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Jan 12, 2012 7:49 PM CST Earthquakes in Christchurch New Zealand AGAIN
rider4u
rider4urider4uDunchurch, Ontario Canada8 Threads 1,361 Posts
HealthyLiving: Do you think there may be one on CS who would Volunteer?

HL
The ones around here are "born again virgins" so I don't think they qualify rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing
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Jan 12, 2012 7:55 PM CST Earthquakes in Christchurch New Zealand AGAIN
HealthyLiving
HealthyLivingHealthyLivingSomewhere In, Tennessee USA527 Threads 2 Polls 4,775 Posts
johnaustin123: This is a bit off topic because it deals more about weather patterns and Global Warming. As you will see in this video, the North Pole is moving and shifting,going Northwest into Russia. This is causing our milder weather in The United States this winter.

If the North Pole is shifting, I would believe that it may have something to do with Earthquakes.

This is why I'm not so hot with Global Warming:




That was very interesting, John.
Thanks!
HLheart wings
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lovelylass3
lovelylass3lovelylass3Auckland, New Zealand6 Threads 202 Posts
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That would make a great thread! Are there any Virgins on CS?

Think I could be a "born again virgin" does that count ?rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing dunno
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Jan 12, 2012 8:42 PM CST Earthquakes in Christchurch New Zealand AGAIN
johnaustin123
johnaustin123johnaustin123Eastlake, Ohio USA76 Threads 16 Polls 4,330 Posts
lovelylass3: \That would make a great thread! Are there any Virgins on CS?

Think I could be a "born again virgin" does that count ?


rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing
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Jan 13, 2012 12:43 AM CST Earthquakes in Christchurch New Zealand AGAIN
johnaustin123
johnaustin123johnaustin123Eastlake, Ohio USA76 Threads 16 Polls 4,330 Posts
UFOTV Presents...: UFOTV: Holes In Heaven? - HAARP and Advances In

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Jan 13, 2012 2:56 AM CST Earthquakes in Christchurch New Zealand AGAIN
johnaustin123
johnaustin123johnaustin123Eastlake, Ohio USA76 Threads 16 Polls 4,330 Posts
Expanded Discussion of the HAB Theory

Geophysical science offers rather thin explanations for the periods of history during which great glaciers advanced and retreated from the polar regions, leaving a great deal of physical evidence.
The more one delves into the actual evidence, the more skeptical one becomes of the existing theories. The truth, according to the HAB Theory, is that periodically - at intervals ranging from 3,000 to 7000 years but averaging around 5,500 years apart - great global cataclysms have occurred which destroyed virtually all of whatever life forms or civilizations had developed on the Earth to that point.

The cataclysms occur when the Earth is thrown off balance due to a massive, unbalanced accumulation of ice at the polar regions. As these polar ice caps grow, their enormous weight, accumulating unevenly as it does, creates an imbalance, and a wobble begins to develop in the rotation of the Earth on its axis. Year by year, as the ice caps grow, this eccentricity increases until, with devastating suddenness, the polar masses are thrown toward the point of greatest spin, which is the equator. Quite abruptly, the areas which were polar now become equatorial, and vice versa.

The resultant cataclysm is, of course monumental across the entire face of the Earth, except at the two points which become pivotal when the capsizing effect occurs.


An Analogy:

Picture the Earth as a round ball spinning in place on a glass table top. Imagine then, that on the uppermost part of this spinning ball, you drop a tiny glob of molten metal, just slightly off center. The ball immediately begins to wobble...

Add more weight and that wobble becomes more pronounced. Add still more and the eccentricity becomes so great the centrifugal force of the spinning ball grips the weight and turns the entire ball so that the weighted portion is thrown to the imaginary line encircling the ball where the speed is greatest - which is coincident with the imaginary line on Earth known to us as the equator.

That is precisely what happens periodically to the Earth. The buildup of ice at the poles increases until its weight is suddenly thrown some 90 degrees from pole to equator. Yes, the Earth is 26 miles greater in diameter when measured around the equator than when measured around the poles, and one might argue that this bulge provides a stability that would make such a sudden tipping unlikely. But consider: such a variance, considering the size of the planet, is far less than the manufacturing tolerances of an ivory billiard ball.

As the sun evaporates the oceans, the moisture thus released precipitates as rain or snow all over the Earth. But the snows that fall on the polar caps do not melt or flow off at anything like the rate at which they evaporate elsewhere. Snow at the poles piles up and gradually turns into glacial ice. As this process continues, the ice caps increase in size.
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Jan 13, 2012 2:58 AM CST Earthquakes in Christchurch New Zealand AGAIN
johnaustin123
johnaustin123johnaustin123Eastlake, Ohio USA76 Threads 16 Polls 4,330 Posts
At a symposium of the Union of Geodesy and geophysics, Dr. Pyyotor Shoumsky reported that the south polar ice cap was growing at a minimum rate of 293 cubic miles of ice annually. To put that number in perspective, Lake Erie contains only 109 cubic miles of water. Thus, a volume of ice forms on top of the existing ice at Antarctica each year which is almost three times the volume of water in Lake Erie! That's enough= ice to form a layer one mile wide and two miles high from New York to Chicago. And this is the buildup of only one year!

These figures were confirmed by Franz Loewe of France and Malcolm Mellors of Australia. There is no mistake.

The present ice mass is considerably over 5.5 million square miles. If the South Pole were over Chicago, that would make a two-mile thick slab of ice extending from Hudson's Bay to Key West, Florida.

Even this wouldn't be a threat if the ice were perfectly centered over the Earth's axis of spin, but it is not. The wobble was discovered by astronomers in 1885. It amounted to only a fraction over an inch. By the mid 1930s, this had increased to just over six feet. In 1970, the radial movement was close to 80 yards. And right now (1978), the wobble is approaching a half-mile in radius.

There is no known means of calculating the point at which rollover will occur, though the summer equinox is the most dangerous time each year. It could conceivably happen with another fraction of an inch of added eccentricity. Or the system may remain more or less stable even if the wobble worsened by another mile or more.

Eventually, though, it'll reach the point of no return and the capsizing effect will occur, with essentially no warning. Overcoming the gyroscopic stabilizing effect of the Earth's equatorial bulge, and in obedience to the laws of centrifugal force, the weight of the ice will be thrown toward the equator. The Earth will continue spinning on it's axis as before, but with some dramatic differences: The ice caps will be riding on the equator, and practically all life - Man included - will have been extinguished.

This is not just a one-time occurrence; it has happened over and over again=! There have been thousands of such rollovers, perhaps even millions, during the 4.5-billion year history of the Earth.

How much time have we got before the next capsizing occurs?

The interval between each occurrence in the past has ranged between 3,000 and 7,000 years. The longest period between tilts was just about 7,000 years, give or take 50. The physical evidence indicates that our present epoch has lasted approximately 7,500 years; we've been living on borrowed time for quite a while.

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Jan 13, 2012 3:06 AM CST Earthquakes in Christchurch New Zealand AGAIN
HealthyLiving
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John, I am not sure if I get that theory.

With the polar caps melting at such a rate as they have lately, there would not be such an increase in weight at the poles.

Would that not return the earth to balance, no longer in the wobble?

I just woke up as I fell asleep listening to Alice's Restaurant earlier.laugh Still, I am confused.

You've got mail.
HL
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Jan 13, 2012 3:29 AM CST Earthquakes in Christchurch New Zealand AGAIN
johnaustin123
johnaustin123johnaustin123Eastlake, Ohio USA76 Threads 16 Polls 4,330 Posts
HealthyLiving: John, I am not sure if I get that theory.

With the polar caps melting at such a rate as they have lately, there would not be such an increase in weight at the poles.

Would that not return the earth to balance, no longer in the wobble?

I just woke up as I fell asleep listening to Alice's Restaurant earlier. Still, I am confused.

You've got mail.
HL


What happens HL is that the Earth goes through polar shifts every 11,000 thousands of years or so. We are due now. With the North Pole changing position, it causes a wobble in the Earth. Magnetic poles have changed many times on our planet. That's why we find Tropical Plants and Dinosares hidden below the ice in the Arctic. Cave men frozen with their last meal still in their bellies. The Earth develops a big wooble and flips over. The Equator then becomes the new North pole.

Word program down, so excuse the spelling.

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johnaustin123
johnaustin123johnaustin123Eastlake, Ohio USA76 Threads 16 Polls 4,330 Posts
Precession of The Equinox & The Wobbling Earth

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Jan 13, 2012 4:03 AM CST Earthquakes in Christchurch New Zealand AGAIN
jac379
jac379jac379pontyclun, South Glamorgan, Wales UK25 Threads 3 Polls 12,293 Posts
johnaustin123: What happens HL is that the Earth goes through polar shifts every 11,000 thousands of years or so. We are due now. With the North Pole changing position, it causes a wobble in the Earth. Magnetic poles have changed many times on our planet. That's why we find Tropical Plants and Dinosares hidden below the ice in the Arctic. Cave men frozen with their last meal still in their bellies. The Earth develops a big wooble and flips over. The Equator then becomes the new North pole.

Word program down, so excuse the spelling.



I'm confused.

I can't watch any of the vids, so from that which you explain, a both a build up of ice and the melting of the polar ice caps causes wobble.

Can you explain how this apparent incongruity happens?
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Jan 13, 2012 4:16 AM CST Earthquakes in Christchurch New Zealand AGAIN
johnaustin123
johnaustin123johnaustin123Eastlake, Ohio USA76 Threads 16 Polls 4,330 Posts
The last Polar magnetic change occured about 11.500 years ago. It's a slow process. What happens is that ice builds up at the north and south poles. This causes an imbalance in the Earth's rotation. Ice moves and builds up to create the wobble that also effects weather patterns.

Our Earth is so closely postioned from our Sun, that 3 meters farther or nearer from the Sun could destroy life on our Planet.

Matthew Lewin: Svenatu - Weather Change and the Earth 'Wobble ...

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Jan 13, 2012 10:41 PM CST Earthquakes in Christchurch New Zealand AGAIN
Albertaghost
AlbertaghostAlbertaghostCultural Wasteland, Alberta Canada76 Threads 5 Polls 5,914 Posts
johnaustin123: The last Polar magnetic change occured about 11.500 years ago. It's a slow process. What happens is that ice builds up at the north and south poles. This causes an imbalance in the Earth's rotation. Ice moves and builds up to create the wobble that also effects weather patterns.

Our Earth is so closely postioned from our Sun, that 3 meters farther or nearer from the Sun could destroy life on our Planet.

Matthew Lewin: Svenatu - Weather Change and the Earth 'Wobble ...

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Not disagreeing with you John but was watching an Earth docu where they explored the Marinas Trench and found a large strip of lode stone with the magnetic stripes designating shifts. They indicated that at one time at least, the shift was so fast that it could have been overnight.

I do know that the north pole declinatioregularlyly shifts so many degrees per year as I was a navigational expert in my army days and taught that to the guys so they could keep their compasses tuned so you are right that it 'normally' is a slow process but, it has reversed itself much faster more than once.
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