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evnafets:
The appropriate XKCD comic :-p
Love it.
Causes rage with me for the facebook users out there.
Soooo many people feel inclined to post on the.. yes, automated.. posts from Geonet upped to social media With 'Felt in x'
1. they ain't ever going to read them
2. its not a felt report unless its logged on a submission form
3. the ground we are all so magically stuck to moved, when it moves a lot. More people feel it. OF COURSE YOU FELT IT!!!!!
Because science.
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evnafets:
The appropriate XKCD comic :-p
hahahaha... my brother in law (who's in toronto) got the alert and was texting seconds after it happened. Just if welly was in the harbour :-)
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frankv: Felt strongly in PN.
I happened to be in PN for work this arvo. Walking around (second level at Central Energy Trust Stadium) so didn't feel it. Had to stop and ask a few colleagues why they were so silent and looking wide-eyed 
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frankv: Felt strongly in PN.
I happened to be in PN for work this arvo. Walking around (second level at Central Energy Trust Stadium) so didn't feel it. Had to stop and ask a few colleagues why they were so silent and looking wide-eyed
Can't explain that, but IME, if you are walking, you wont feel it as much or at all possibly
Here is why it was hardly felt near the epicentre but was felt south and further away
Geonet said: "Large, deep earthquakes like this usually cause fewer aftershocks than shallower ones. As this was a very deep quake, you can see from the pattern of felt reports that the energy travelled along the rigid subducting slab on the east of the North Island."
Rigid rock is better at transmitting earthquake waves than mushy rock. So when an earthquake happens in or near this slab of subducting plate, most of the quake’s energy (and therefore shaking) travels up and along the slab to the surface. The energy that travels straight up to the surface has to travel through the softer, semi-molten rock, which "dampens" the waves. This means that fewer people around the epicentre will feel these types of earthquakes.
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