6.0 Earthquake in Mansfield Vic

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  1. Lizzie

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    Felt it here in Docklands though didn't seem as strong as the 2012 Moe quake - perhaps because I now live on 5th floor, then was on 26th.
     
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    Yep felt it here in Wagga. Felt a rumble down the road - what the ...
     
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    I thought the car was misfiring for a moment. No big deal. I've experienced significantly worse overseas.
     
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    Didn’t feel a thing in the Druitt.

    Looks like only minimal damage. Mag 6 is a fair whack.
     
  6. Lizzie

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    Newcastle was only 5.6 ... but shallow ... combined with an old, lime mortar, densely built on reclaimed mud flats city
     
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    Also the workers club car park wasn’t built properly. That didn’t help.

    So there’s Corona, industrial disputes and now this. Certainly shaky times.
     
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    Better check my building insurance policies...
     
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    Earthquakes are like pavlovas, in the way that ogres are like onions or parfait!?

    This pavlova shows how we get earthquakes in Australia

    As Australia sits in the centre of a tectonic plate, our earthquakes are a bit different to other places, he says.

    Dr Allen uses a pavlova to describe why we have earthquakes in Australia.

    "Imagine if you will, that a tectonic plate is analogous to a pavlova — with a thin brittle crust lying above a ductile, but mostly solid meringue mantle," Dr Allen says.

    "The Australian continent would sit in the middle of our pavlova."

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    If you put your hands on the edge of the pavlova and start to squeeze, the crust around your hands will be the first to break, like those earthquakes at the boundaries of tectonic plates.

    But if you continue to squeeze, eventually strain builds up in the centre of the crust, and cracks will begin to appear.

    This is similar to how we get earthquakes in Australia.

    "The same forces that drive earthquakes on tectonic plate boundaries are at play — they just take a lot longer to manifest in the middle of our pavlova," Dr Allen says.​
     
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    Felt it strongly here. Grew up in NZ, so the school training drills took over…
     
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    That was built in the days of the BLF not the CFMEU :rolleyes:
     
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    Theres gonna be lotsa folks selling up in Mansfield VIC and buying in Mansfield QLD now...
     
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    Well - let see ... as a planet, in the last 18 months, we've have fires - floods - pandemics (only one but feels like multiple) - locusts (Africa/Arabia/India) - volcanoes - earthquakes ... looks like we've got a few more to get thru:

    The plagues are: water turning to blood, frogs, lice, flies, livestock pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness and the killing of firstborn children.

    Did the 10 Plagues of Egypt Really Happen? Here Are 3 Theories

     
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    The plagues of Egypt (in order) were:

    Water turning to blood.
    Frices.
    Lice.
    Flies
    Lifestock pestilence.
    Boils
    Hail.
    Locusts.
    Darkness.
    Killing of firstborn children (I'm screwed).
     
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    All apparently caused by a volcano - and ended with the sacrifice - there's, at least, four big suckers going off atm ... Canary Is, Etna, Hawaii and Alaska

    Winds would have carried the volcanic ash to Egypt at some point over the summer, and the toxic acids in the volcanic ash would have included the mineral cinnabar, which could have been capable of turning a river a blood-like red color, Trevisanato holds. The accumulated acidity in the water would have caused frogs to leap out and search for clean water. Insects would have burrowed eggs in the bodies of dead animals and human survivors, which generated larvae and then adult insects. Then, the volcanic ash in the atmosphere would have affected the weather, with acid rain landing on people’s skin, which in turn caused boils. The grass would have been contaminated, poisoning the animals that ate it. The humidity from the rain and the subsequent hail would have created optimal conditions for locusts to thrive. Volcanic eruptions could also explain the several days of darkness — which means nine plagues are accounted for
     
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    That explains all of them except:

    Sounds painful :confused:
     
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    Newly discovered fault has been named.
    The Dan Andreas Fault
     
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