27.2.11
Latest Information for the Deaf Community of Christchurch
Video Update 25th february 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdiptS4KqxU
25.2.11
23.2.11
How you can help the good folks of New Zealand from your home/no cost, just time
New Zealand has been hit by an event so severe that it has triggered something that used to be thought of as a theoretical possibility. A state of national emergency has been declared for the first time. We have several international USAR/US&R teams providing support. However, the city’s infrastructure is in a terrible state.
If you would like to keep in touch with developments - here are some links:
http://webchat.freenode.net channel #eqnz
http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/CrisisCampNZ
If you would like to monitor local & international news to add to http://eq.org.nz, I would appreciate it. I’m coordinating an Ushahidi instance. We have sufficient volunteers approving incoming reports. However, we would be greatful if people could read through news/TV articles and add facts to:
http://eq.org.nz/reports/submit
This instance has received pro-bono support from several major players, including Catalyst IT, Ko-ordinates, Google’s Sydney office, Vodafone, Telecom NZ, 2degrees, Victoria University of Wellington and Optimal Usability. We need to make sure that we have sufficient information over the next few weeks to keep the site sustainable. Your monitoring is vital to ensuring that Christchurch citizens have the information they need to stay healthy and recover.
Tim McNamara
CrisisCampNZ
http://www.timmcnamara.co.nz
http://twitter.com/timClicks
22.2.11
Via Google Christchurch Response Page
Resources
- New Zealand Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management
- Ushahidi Christchurch instance for incident reporting
- Canterbury Earthquake site managed by Environment Canterbury
- Realtime hashtags related to the earthquake: #eqnz, #nzearthquake, #chch, #christchurchquake
- Twitter: Tweets within 50 miles of Christchurch
- Christchurch Quake Map
- Donations to the New Zealand Red Cross
- Australian government helpline:
- From New Zealand: +61 2 6261 3305
- From Australia: 1300 555 135
- FIND FULL PAGE WITH ALL INFO HERE
Info4 the deaf and hearing impaired
Christchurch Earthquake
2/22 Video Update #1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj60URjKR3E  Christchurch Earthquake 8th Update Presented by: Daniel Harborne [43.41 MB] | |
 Christchurch Earthquake 7th Update Presented by: Daniel Harborne [24.15 MB] |  Christchurch Earthquake 6th Update Presented by: Victoria Skorikova [38.81 MB] |
 Christchurch Earthquake 5th Update Presented by: Daniel Harborne [19.44 MB] |  Christchurch Earthquake Fourth Update B Presented by: Catherine Greenwood [37.38 MB] |
 Christchurch Earthquake Fourth Update A Presented by: Catherine Greenwood [49.39 MB] |  Christchurch Earthquake Third Update Presented by: Catherine Greenwood [22.19 MB] |
 Christchurch Earthquake Second UpdatePresented by: Catherine Greenwood [25.07 MB] For continuing coverage see the website please |
New Zealand Red Cross Update and links
Welcome to the website of New Zealand Red Cross. In New Zealand and across the globe, Red Cross provides assistance to millions of vulnerable people every year. We help people affected by conflict, disaster and emergency and prepare communities to cope with potential crises.
canterbury earthquake - feb 23 update 0030 hrsA 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit the Canterbury area at 12.51pm today - February 22. The quake, approximately 5km underground and located 10km south east of the city has caused wide spread damage, bursting sewage lines, damaging buildings and homes, cutting power and telephone lines to many areas of the city. The mayor of Christchurch, Bob Parker, has declared a state of emergency.Red Cross Christchurch and Timaru teams are on the ground working now, with Nelson and Blenheim teams on their way. Dunedin, Queenstown, Invercargill and West Coast teams are all due to arrive tomorrow morning to assist. We are working with Civil Defence, New Zealand Police, the local councils and agencies and are assisting with First Aid to the injured and provision of welfare. Standardised Red Cross relief supplies being distributed and deployed from around the country.
NZRC is not currently requiring or accepting donations of goods or volunteers at this time. NZRC are currently focusing on roles supporting the CDEM response. Urgent email enquiries can be referred to our National Emergency Operating Centre at nzrceoc@redcross.org.nz .
For welfare related enquiries and requirements for affected persons please call the Government help line on 0800 7799977
For information on the Earthquake response see http://canterburyearthquake.org.nz/
To lodge an enquiry in relation to missing relatives please call the NZ Red Cross National Enquiry Centre on 0800 REDCROSS (0800 733 276) (note this line may be overloaded) International calls can be made to +64 7 8502199
International restoring family links enquiries from Red Cross or Red Crescent national societies can be sent tofamilylinks@redcross.org.nz further information will be pending.
canterbury earthquake - feb 23 update 0030 hrsA 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit the Canterbury area at 12.51pm today - February 22. The quake, approximately 5km underground and located 10km south east of the city has caused wide spread damage, bursting sewage lines, damaging buildings and homes, cutting power and telephone lines to many areas of the city. The mayor of Christchurch, Bob Parker, has declared a state of emergency.Red Cross Christchurch and Timaru teams are on the ground working now, with Nelson and Blenheim teams on their way. Dunedin, Queenstown, Invercargill and West Coast teams are all due to arrive tomorrow morning to assist. We are working with Civil Defence, New Zealand Police, the local councils and agencies and are assisting with First Aid to the injured and provision of welfare. Standardised Red Cross relief supplies being distributed and deployed from around the country.
NZRC is not currently requiring or accepting donations of goods or volunteers at this time. NZRC are currently focusing on roles supporting the CDEM response. Urgent email enquiries can be referred to our National Emergency Operating Centre at nzrceoc@redcross.org.nz .
For welfare related enquiries and requirements for affected persons please call the Government help line on 0800 7799977
For information on the Earthquake response see http://canterburyearthquake.org.nz/
To lodge an enquiry in relation to missing relatives please call the NZ Red Cross National Enquiry Centre on 0800 REDCROSS (0800 733 276) (note this line may be overloaded) International calls can be made to +64 7 8502199
International restoring family links enquiries from Red Cross or Red Crescent national societies can be sent tofamilylinks@redcross.org.nz further information will be pending.
21.2.11
The Christchurch earthquake told on Social Media Platforms
http://socialmedianz.com/opinion2/2011/02/22/the-christchurch-earthquake-told-on-social-media-platforms/
Where to donate blood in NZ
If you're able to donate blood, here are the locations of NZblood: http://www.nzblood.co.nz/?t=6
Live feeds for New Zealand
If you're at work or can't get to a TV, here are the live feeds:
This came from here Thanks for the links!
New Zealand Civil Defense
Civil defence website with updates http://www.civildefence.govt.nz/memwebsite.nsf or follow @nzcivildefence #eqnz
Deaths in Christchurch quake
Did you feel the quake?
There have been "multiple fatalities" after a shallow 6.3 magnitude earthquake in Christchurch this afternoon caused buildings to collapse, police have confirmed.
Police said fatalities had been reported at several locations and that two buses had been crushed by falling buildings.
Deaths, destruction in Christchurch quake:
LATEST: A number of people are dead and scores trapped after a large quake struck Christchurch this afternoon.
Police said two buses had been crushed by falling debris, while witnesses said screams could be heard coming from the Pyne Gould Business building where up to 150 people were feared trapped.
The airport was closed to all but emergency flights after its tower had collapsed and Lyttelton tunnel was shut. Christchurch Hospital remained open but was also damaged.
Christchurch Cathedral, the heart of the city, has largely collapsed.
Power was out in 80 percent of the city, as large aftershocks continued.
Where you can go to Monitor Earthquakes
Monitoring
U.S. seismic networkAdvanced National Seismic System (ANSS)
Worldwide seismic networkGlobal Seismographic Network (GSN)
Instruments installed in private homes, businesses, public buildings and schools.Volunteer Monitoring–Netquakes
Registered stations world-wideInternational Registry of Seismograph Stations
Caretaker of the Global Seismographic NetworkAlbuquerque Seismological Lab (ASL)
Station & telemetry statusNetwork Operations - GSN & ANSS
Seismic stations for strong shakingNational Strong Motion Project (NSMP)
MonitorinCrustal Deformation Monitoring
Earthquake Data Available from the NEIC
- Current Worldwide Earthquake List
- Data Available Through FTP
- Earthquake Catalog Search
- Earthquake Summary Posters
- Large Earthquakes This Year
- Latest Fast Moment Tensor Solutions
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- Moment Tensor & Broadband Source Parameter Search
- Seismicity Maps of the World
- Today in Earthquake History
- Earthquake Lists & Maps
18.2.11
What is a ShakeMap
Earthquakes
| WHAT'S A SHAKEMAP? A ShakeMap is a representation of ground shaking produced by an earthquake. |
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- Check out these other great sites!
- National Data Center
- CGS ShakeMaps
- Earthquake Strong Motion
- Earthquake Probabilities
- Earthquake Shaking Hazards
- Earthquake Hazard Zones
- Faults
- Historic Earthquakes
State Geologists Put California Earthquake Maps Online
Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zone MapsThe index map below identifies all Official Maps of Earthquake Fault Zones delineated by the California Geological Survey through December 2010 under the Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act. Individual Earthquake Fault Zone Maps can be viewed on screen. Digital image files (pdf) and Geographic Information System files (GIS) of individual maps can be downloaded by selecting a specific quadrangle map.Click here for a quick tutorial. Contact us for any questions/comments.
You can select the affected city/county from the drop down list, or enter the property's street address to view the appropriate Earthquake Fault Zone Map. MAP
Mid-Continent Earthquakes May Migrate from Fault to Fault
Most of the world's earthquakes occur along the boundaries between Earth's constantly moving tectonic plates, like the San Andreas Fault in California. Small quakes along these faults are expected to occur relatively frequently, until they build up to the next big one. However, earthquakes that occur in the middle of continents, such as China's 2008 quake that killed around 70,000 people, seem to occur out of nowhere.
Now, new research from the University of Missouri suggests that inner-continental quakes such as China's may abide by a different set of rules than those that occur along plate boundaries.
Along plate boundaries, small and moderate earthquakes that rupture along a particular fault lead to a build-up of stress along that same fault line, but mid-continent faults are connected to each other in a complex network, and a large earthquake along one fault will instead put pressure on a different fault.
Mian Liu, a geologist from the University of Missouri, and his team studied data from large earthquakes — 6.5 or higher on the Richter scale — that occurred in inner-continental China over the last 2,000 years. Surprisingly, they found that the same fault segment had never ruptured more than once. Instead, the earthquakes migrated throughout the region.
"It's like a game of whack the mole. The mole doesn't come through the same hole twice," Liu told OurAmazingPlanet.
When the team analyzed the locations of the quakes and the energy each released, they found that the data indicated that the earthquakes were not migrating randomly. Instead, the faults seem to be mechanically coupled to each other, so that when one fault segment is ruptured, the energy is passed along to another fault segment, stressing it until it ruptures.
Liu said the new theory is not yet able to predict when or where the next big earthquake will occur along inner-continental fault systems, but he said it is a new way of thinking about mid-continent earthquakes. For instance, a large earthquake occurred in the New Madrid fault system in Missouri in 1811, the largest-known earthquake in the mid-continental United States. Because of that, the fault system has been the subject of much research, but Liu's theory suggests that the next big earthquake in the United States will occur along a separate fault.
The work shows that applying hazard models to continental interior fault systems that have been designed for plate boundaries is likely to be inadequate, said Eric Calais, a geophysicist at Purdue University, who is also a scientific adviser helping revamp a disaster preparedness plan for Haiti.
"When it comes to earthquakes in plate interiors, one truly has to think out of the box and be able — and willing — to abandon plate boundary concepts," he said.
13 Crazy Earthquake Facts
Date: 09 March 2010 Time: 05:15 AM ET
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| Ground view of collapsed building and burned area at Beach and Divisadero Streets in the Marina District of San Francisco after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. C.E. Meyer, U.S. Geological Survey |
1. Earth has been more seismologically active in the past 15 years or so, says Stephen S. Gao, a geophysicist at Missouri University of Science & Technology. Not all seismologist agree, however.
2. San Francisco is moving toward Los Angeles at the rate of about 2 inches per year — the same pace as the growth of your fingernails — as the two sides of the San Andreas fault slip past one another. The cities will meet in several million years. However, this north-south movement also means that despite fears, California won't fall into the sea.
3. March is not earthquake month, despite what some people believe. True, on March 28, 1964, Prince William Sound, Alaska, experienced a 9.2 magnitude event — one of the biggest ever. It killed 125 people and caused $311 million in property damages. And on March 9, 1957, the Andreanof Islands, Alaska, felt a 9.1 temblor. But the next three biggest U.S. earthquakes occurred in February, November, and December. The devastating major earthquake in Chile of 2010 struck on Feb. 27. And the huge 9.3 temblor that spawned the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 occurred on Dec. 26.
4. There are about 500,000 earthquakes a year around the world, as detected by sensitive instruments. About 100,000 of those can be felt, and 100 or so cause damage each year. Each year the southern California area alone experiences about 10,000 earthquakes, most of them not felt by people.
5. The sun and moon cause tremors. It's long been known that they create tides in the planet's crust, very minor versions of ocean tides. Now researchers say the tug of the sun and moon on the San Andreas Fault stimulates tremors deep underground.
6. A city in Chile moved 10 feet in the massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake Feb. 27, 2010. The rip in Earth's crust shifted the city of Concepción that much to the west. The quake is also thought to have changed the planet's rotation slightly and shortened Earth's day.
7. There's no such thing as "earthquake weather." Statistically, there is an equal distribution of earthquakes in cold weather, hot weather, rainy weather, and so on, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Scientists say there is no physical way that weather could affect the forces several miles beneath the surface of the earth where quakes originate. The changes in barometric pressure in the atmosphere are very small compared to the forces in the crust, and the effect of the barometric pressure does not reach beneath the soil.
8. Earth's bulge was trimmed a little by the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, the 9.0+ temblor that generated the deadly tsunami on Dec. 26 that year. Earth's midsection bulges in relation to the measurement from pole-to-pole, and the catastrophic land displacement caused a small reduction in the bulge, making the planet more round.
9. The Pacific Ring of Fire is the most geologically active region of Earth. It circles the Pacific Ocean, touching the coasts North and South America, Japan, China and Russia. It's where the majority of Earth's major quakes occur as major plate boundaries collide.
10. Oil extraction can cause minor earthquakes. These are not the quakes you read about. Rather, because oil generally is found in soft and squishy sediment, when oil is removed other rock moves in to fill the void, creating "mini-seismic events" that are not noticeable to humans.
11. The largest earthquake ever recorded was a magnitude 9.5 in Chile on May 22, 1960.
12. Quakes on one side of Earth can shake the other side. Seismologists studying the massive 2004 earthquake that triggered killer tsunamis throughout the Indian Ocean found that the quake had weakened at least a portion of California's famed San Andreas Fault. The Chilean quake of 1960 shook the entire Earth for many days, a phenomenon called oscillation that was measured by seismic stations around the planet.
13. The deadliest earthquake ever struck January 23, 1556 in Shansi, China. Some 830,000 are estimated to have died.
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