
Earthquakes are on the rise in the South Pacific – USGS
What happens when you have 7.8 and 6.5 magnitude earthquakes along the New Zealand coastline in the same day?
After you pick yourself up from the floor, you realize that the buildings around you are crumbling, and a tsunami wave is heading your way.
Quakes Nov 13, 2016
On Saturday, Nov 12, 2106, New Zealand experienced 10 earthquakes around 5.0 magnitude, and then the Earth broke loose. On Sunday, Nov 13, 2106, the island around Wellington was under a quake assault.
The following 36 quakes are in timeline order (first quake to most recent):
- a day ago 6.1 magnitude, 16 km depth Kaikoura, Canterbury, New Zealand
- a day ago 5.7 magnitude, 10 km depth Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand
- a day ago 6.5 magnitude, 10 km depth Kaikoura, Canterbury, New Zealand
- a day ago 5.8 magnitude, 10 km depth Kaikoura, Canterbury, New Zealand
- a day ago 7.8 magnitude, 23 km depth Amberley, Canterbury, New Zealand
- a day ago 5.0 magnitude, 13 km depth Brooklyn, Wellington, New Zealand
- a day ago 4.9 magnitude, 10 km depth Kaikoura, Canterbury, New Zealand
- a day ago 5.2 magnitude, 9 km depth Amberley, Canterbury, New Zealand
- a day ago 5.2 magnitude, 9 km depth Amberley, Canterbury, New Zealand
- a day ago 5.2 magnitude, 10 km depth Kaikoura, Canterbury, New Zealand
- a day ago 5.2 magnitude, 19 km depth Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand
- about 24 hours ago 4.9 magnitude, 4 km depth Kaikoura, Canterbury, New Zealand
- about 23 hours ago 5.2 magnitude, 10 km depth Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand
- about 23 hours ago 6.2 magnitude, 8 km depth Kaikoura, Canterbury, New Zealand
- about 23 hours ago 5.3 magnitude, 10 km depth Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand
- about 23 hours ago 4.9 magnitude, 20 km depth Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand
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about 23 hours ago 4.2 magnitude, 10 km depth Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand
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about 21 hours ago 5.1 magnitude, 14 km depth Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand
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about 20 hours ago 5.2 magnitude, 10 km depth Kaikoura, Canterbury, New Zealand
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about 19 hours ago 4.5 magnitude, 10 km depth Amberley, Canterbury, New Zealand
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about 19 hours ago 4.9 magnitude, 10 km depth Kaikoura, Canterbury, New Zealand
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about 18 hours ago 4.8 magnitude, 10 km depth Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand
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about 18 hours ago 4.7 magnitude, 10 km depth Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand
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about 18 hours ago 5.1 magnitude, 10 km depth Kaikoura, Canterbury, New Zealand
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about 17 hours ago 5.1 magnitude, 8 km depth Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand
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about 17 hours ago 4.6 magnitude, 10 km depth Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand
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about 17 hours ago 4.9 magnitude, 10 km depth Kaikoura, Canterbury, New Zealand
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about 17 hours ago 4.9 magnitude, 10 km depth Kaikoura, Canterbury, New Zealand
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about 15 hours ago 5.1 magnitude, 10 km depth Kaikoura, Canterbury, New Zealand
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about 15 hours ago 4.2 magnitude, 10 km depth Kaikoura, Canterbury, New Zealand
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about 14 hours ago 5.0 magnitude, 11 km depth Kaikoura, Canterbury, New Zealand
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about 13 hours ago 4.6 magnitude, 13 km depth Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand
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about 13 hours ago 5.2 magnitude, 10 km depth Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand
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about 12 hours ago 6.5 magnitude, 10 km depth Kaikoura, Canterbury, New Zealand
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about 11 hours ago 5.2 magnitude, 10 km depth Kaikoura, Canterbury, New Zealand
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…. 36 earthquakes in less than 24 hours; 3 quakes over 6.0, and 1 quake almost an 8.0
Tsunami

High waves reached the shore after tsunami warnings went out.
Hours after the initial quake (and seriously, which one?), two tsunami threats were issued – one from the quake, and the second warning went out for residents to flee to high ground after a Slip Dam on the Clarence River breached, sending a large wall of water downstream.
Waves of about 2 metres did hit the coast, but the tsunami threat had been downgraded to coastal warnings.
Two people were killed in the quake. This isn’t over yet, I suspect.