Hi, everyone.
Thank you very much for joining me here.
We have the current winds there for New Zealand.
They're now doing rescue efforts after the
Cyclone Gabrielle passed over that area.
Four people have been killed and authorities there
are saying that they're going to make final
rescues today, Wednesday, January 15, 2023.
Yeah, and then there was
an earthquake early this morning.
What the heck is going on?
Cyclone Gay bureau struck the country's north on
Monday and has brought more destruction to this
nation of 15 million people than the weather
event, any weather event in decades.
Police said at least four people have been confirmed killed
by the storm, including a child so very sad.
Caught in the rising water on
Tuesday at Escale on Hawks Bay.
All four fatalities occurred near the
same North Island east coast bay.
This is a road that was washed away
and it looks like a trailer hauling doubles.
The body of a volunteer firefighter was also retrieved
on Wednesday today from a landslide that destroyed a
flooded house near Aklan, said the police.
Another firefighter was critically injured by
the same landslide on Monday night.
Authorities also said 1442 people had been reported
uncontactable on the north island by Wednesday afternoon.
The larger number could be explained by
the widespread disruption to telecommunication and power
while he got roads out.
Also, around 144,000 people were without power
on Wednesday, down from 225,000 on Tuesday,
the New Zealand Herald reported.
A weather station in the Hawkes Bay and Napier region
recorded three times more rain over Monday night than the
unusual fall for the entire month of February.
More than 300 people were rescued Tuesday
from the same flooded Bay area, including
60 stranded on a single roof.
And they said the helicopters would help
make the final 25 rescues of individuals
and family groups today, Wednesday.
They're actually a day ahead of us.
Gabriel, which reached New Zealand on Sunday before
making his way down to the east coast
of the North Island, cut off entire towns,
washed away farms, bridges and livestock, and inundated
homes, stranding people on their roofs.
Residents in hard hit areas are now being asked
to conserve water and food because of fears of
shortages after the cyclone forced New Zealand on Tuesday
to declare a national state of emergency, only the
third time in its history.
Parts of New Zealand's North Island, where about 75%
of the country's 5 million residents live, are enduring
their second major storm in as many weeks.
Authorities estimate that more than 9000 people
have been displaced so far, with around
3000 house in temporary shelters.
Then earlier today, there was a magnitude
5.7 earthquake near the Cook Strait.
83 people said they did feel that earthquake and
USGS gave it an intensity level of six here's.
The areas of the felt reports, let's
see, intensity level five there by eleven.
I'm not going to try and pronounce that,
but intensity level five, five and five.
Yeah.
Mostly along the coast, it looks like.
But it was felt all the
way down there by Christ Church.
Many of you might remember the devastating
earthquake that happened there a while ago.
I can't remember how long ago that was.
New Plymouth.
Intensity level four.
And they don't give a name for that one.
So even intensity level five means
it was felt by most people.
They had breakage, like they don't
have enough damage from the storm.
Dishes, windows, plaster, disturbance of tall objects.
Intensity level six means it was felt by all.
And many people were frightened
and they actually ran outdoors.
Falling plaster and chimneys.
Damage small.
I wouldn't consider the damage small when you got
structural damage or even a chimney that fell down.
Here is some of the felt
reports that were sent into EMSC.
Big rumble at the start, then the room twisted.
Old deaf dog went crazy. Barking.
Van and driveway rocked east to west.
Felt a vibration, then the shaking started. P wave.
Yeah, you guys are smart. First.
Then the S wave with more intensity.
Lasted a fair while.
Some 50 km away, but no damage.
Geo Net says it was a 6.3.
Well, so does the Australian website. I agree.
Been through a 5.8 and a couple of sixes.
Same area, and this was a six for sure. Smart person.
Who are you?
Doesn't give a name.
This one here says it shook for 45 seconds.
Knocked half the pictures off the wall.
Another one lasted for 30 seconds.
Large shake.
Spooky.
A good 32nd shake here in the hut.
Few things fell off the shelf.
Good 32nd shake here in the hut, upper hut, I guess.
Few things fell off the shelf.
That's the name of location. No rumble.
Just started to shake.
Went on for a good minute.
Windows rattled, long shake.
Had the first shake.
That was a good shove.
And then the second rolling wave.
For a while, that peaked midway.
Glass was rattling and it sounded like a train.
That's the P wave when you hear it.
The first wave was registered as a 6.1 here.
And it felt like it started small, then increasing.
Unusual. Unusual.
Just get mild.
A good one. Okay.
I felt and sounded like
a slow locomotive rumbling nearby.
But then I realized the trains are too far away.
When I stood up, the whole building
was swing for about a minute.
Those poor people.
Oh, my goodness.
It might have been a thrust earthquake.
Here you can see on GeoScope how one part of the
plate moved going east and the other side raised up.
Then on USGS, you can see here how the
fault line moved going towards the north and northeast.
Yeah, it looks like a thrust earthquake.
There is no tsunami warning.
It was 74.3 depth.
So that would be 46.7 miles below sea level.
And then going to Google Earth.
Here's the location of that 5.7.
And I also downloaded the data. All right.
There's the seismic signature.
Let's go to the spectrogram right there.
Oh, my goodness. Yeah.
Is this going to set off another volcanic eruption?
It looks like there was
one small earthquake right here.
Maybe it wasn't so small.
Let's go to the seismic signature.
But I get a magnitude six point
at least 6.0, maybe magnitude 6.6.
It rattled for quite a while
instead of a magnitude 5.7.
Let me bring this across the line there.
It just rattled.
I hate that when I do that.
It rattled on and on.
Look at the heat that came up and the gases.
Look at that.
It rattled for quite a while.
This other earthquake, it too
rattled for quite a while.
I don't know if I'm going to
be able to get seismic signature.
Let's see.
Look at that.
Oh, my goodness.
There's a lot going on out there.
I keep going off the line.
Okay.
Yeah.
See, New Zealand is saying that
one is actually a magnitude 6.3. Yeah.
And that other one that I'll show you, a magnitude 4.0.
USGS isn't reporting that.
See, it says yesterday because they're
a day ahead of us.
I come up with a magnitude
4.17 for that one right there.
4.17.
And then we got some other stuff going on down here.
1449.
I wonder if that's the 4.7.
I'm not sure about the time here.
We got 03:48 A.m..
It could be it, I don't know.
I don't know.
Let's see what else we got.
A lot of twos.
Okay.
That one they deleted.
I wonder why.
At least they tell you when they delete it again.
They got a 3.5.
Yeah.
It's all basically up to the north
where all these earthquakes are occurring. Yeah.
Poor people like you don't have enough going on.
Let me bring this over.
Yeah.
The monitor that I'm using.
Let me bring this up and then I'll come
in for you so you can see it.
If it's going to let me. All right.
Not going to let me okay, just do it there anyways.
That's the monitor.
I-U-S-N-Z-O.
Poor people. Yeah.
What's going on?
Cyclones and looking@earthschool.net. Yeah.
So what are your thoughts?
Did you have damage?
I know you had damage from the cyclone,
but did you have damage from this earthquake
afterwards while you're doing your cleanup? Yeah.
Poor people.
Yeah.
Put your comments down below.
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Yeah, please be safe.
I tell people, be safe, be prepared.
It's just not earthquakes you need to be prepared for.
You need it for the flooding. Right.
Here's a good example.
A chemical fire like happened to Ohio.
You just don't know tornadoes.
Well, you guys don't get tornadoes there, but
flash floods, you do earthquakes, you do.
Yeah.
And then we got the threat of nuclear war.
Yeah.
Be prepared, have a plan and always be safe.
Sending prayers and yeah, I'll talk to you later.
God bless you. Bye.