New Zealand Earthquake

I hope our New Zealand friends are OK.

They just got hit with a 7.3 earthquake off their coast.

Matt Olieman

Hope they are OK. That is a really heavy earthquake. The world is actually a small place regarding our passion for simulated aircrafts. We know people from all corners of the world.

My thoughts are with them too. Been in Japan during a couple milder ones. Not a pleasant experience.

best,

.................john

No Tsunami. 6.9 is what I'm reading.

I want to thank Fox News for that misinformation.... seems it was at or around JAKARTA, Indonesia and had a preliminary magnitude of 7.5 and was centered about 66 miles east of Jakarta.

Matt Olieman

Thanks for the info Matt

My thoughts go out to anyone affected by the quake. Living in Cali i know to well the feeling of the earth moving.

This is a reliable source for information on earthquakes.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/...uakes_all.html

So there was one.... how about that. Thanks Gary :)

7.0 2008/09/29 15:19:31 -29.872 -177.684 35.0 KERMADEC ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND

Matt Olieman

I love that site.

I started looking at a bunch of links on building your own siesmometer. Cool stuff.

I've read up quite a bit on the Wabash Valley rift system and the New Madrid system. Really ancient stuff.

The country was nearly split into two in the late Precambrian time where these two ancient fault systems are.