Wellington's Many Active Faults
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ก.ค. 2024
- New Zealand's capital city is famous for the Wellington Fault that cuts right through its heart, and extends along the densely populated Hutt Valley. But there are many other active faults that together increase the earthquake hazard over the whole region.
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Lived in Makara for about 20 years, now In Tararuas. Scrambled all over those outcrops as a teenager and saw the difference but now understand it. Thankyou. Very interesting.
That's great!
Wellington certainly has a lot of faults - but some good qualities too😀
Indeed! :-)
😕 That's not entirely Wellingtons fault. The whole country isn't what it's cracked up to be really. 😉
We just have to pound the bejesus out of it to get it to toughen up.
@@sixthsenseamelia4695 Sometimes you get uplifted, sometimes you get downthrown, as long as you're not subducted!
Nice
I really enjoyed the presenters and the format. I learned good info today.
Great! Thank you.
'Unliquefiable'. I envy their confidence.
🙂
I'll never be able to visit New Zealand, but I'm really enjoying these videos.
Thanks!
A very comprehensive summary of active Wellington faults, and the role of seismology in understanding and mitigating impacts. I recognized the Pigeon Bush site from one of your previous videos! Thank you again for making these interesting and informative videos.
Thank you Paul, appreciated
Fantastic video as always! Also really nice to see several of the people I know of via journal articles speaking about these hazards; puts a face and voice to them for me at last! ☺
Thanks for your appreciation!
When I was climbing etc in scotland, I battled, for years, with the mountain names mostly because of the Gaelic...
I am glad, very very glad I didn't emigrate to NZ...those native names are real tongue manglers...
Incredible videos people...keep it up and good luck...
Thanks! You get used to the names after a while!
wonderful video. I cant wait to visit these places again with an understanding of what I am seeing
That's great, thanks for your appreciation
this was fascinating and so informative! Keep up the good work! thanks :)
Thank you for your appreciation
Damn this channel! I've got things to do, but there's always "just one more video" to watch. :)
A little more seriously, I don't usually binge watch TH-cam channels, but this is the kind of content I love.
Thanks for your comment!!
Having been brought up in Wellington, I have now lived most of my life in Auckland. It is very different here geologically and although I am interested in earthquakes and have always been the focus of "drop, cover, hold" we Aucklanders still practice this every year. Yet one quarter of all New Zealanders (us) live on a thin crustal volcanic zone that has produced vents every few thousand years, Rangitoto being one that Maori can recall from their ancestors.
Would it be possible please, to discuss this in a video, what would be the signs of activity, where would it most likely happen, etc. I have seen a video of one in the harbour which would be explosive, but there are also signs of the Panmure Basin, an old crater, swelling up again. Is this possible and how will Aucklanders be warned of an impending eruption when the time comes (eg Civil Defence alarm) and can we prepare for such an event? What should that look like? Thanks!
Thanks very much for your comment. Yes, I am hoping to get up to Auckland sometime to cover some of those questions!
Great overview vid.
Knowing Wellington to a fault.
Cheers! 😀
Great info, and an interesting mix of accents!
Thanks 😊
Subscribed and loving the content
Thanks - that's great!
Live that place! Great vid
Thanks!
Thanks for that very interesting information
Cheers!
Another great video :-)
Thank you
Aloha hugs 🤗 I am impressed with this channel
The measurements with the man with a Drone was cool too
Thanks, glad you like it!
The Kaikoura quake blocked SH1 and the rail for pretty much 18 months, what would a major Wellington quake do? Spare the thought!
Which reminds us all to have a plan and a well stocked civil defense kit...
What Wellington?
Bit late to the party but I am enjoying this content, fascinating stuff 👍
Thank you!
Quite a few active faults sitting in The Beehive.
Wow!
That looks like a good place to build on stilts with springs. What magnitude are buildings there designed to withstand?
Love to Welly... I ll be back..
That was,. So cool. it was. Thankyou. I can finish My SchoolAssignment. And Having some Peace this video Exists Thankyou,.
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would love to hear a tally of all the historical quakes and eruptions that the Maori have passed on orally.
the cycle ride up to the summit of Mt Victoria is an invigorating and refreshing hill climb
With a great view at the top!
Anything on the faults that are a few kilometres offshore running parallel to Porirua and the Kapiti Coast? Over the last year i've noticed more quake activity there. Is it something people on the coast should be concerned about?
Kapiti/Hikurangi subduction zone event in progress.
I am guessing the 2 , 4.5 (?) Earth quakes Wellngton regions had in the last couple of weeks happened prior to this being made
Which fault ruptured in the Hutt Valley - the 1st of the 2 , and which of the marine faults moved , north of the boulder bank , west of Wellington , as both of these affected other faults around Wellington , to some degree or other .
This video was actually filmed a few months back
Wish I can see a lot more like this video in Indonesia ☺
There would be plenty to talk about there!
No way I would love there
I've known for years about the fault on which the SH1 / SH2 is built. Since this is such a well known fault, what possessed the authorities to build the only transport corridor into the city directly atop this fault? Someone patently did not do their homework, and now the country is at huge risk of its capital being completely cut off of surface access! Is thee a fault running through, next to, or across the Wellington airport?
I hope one time the political power will give a true minister to geologists to help to face the reality for the future of new Zealand to build infrastructure facing a such instable Islands
Hmm...I live on a fault line, on a flood plain in a tsunami zone. Why? Why? Why? 🤔🤔
Excellent video. 👍
Not uncommon in Aotearoa New Zealand! Thanks for watching!
so… you have an inflatable kayak in your emergency kit?
Invest in a set of water wings!
I experienced the Kaikoura earthquake here in Wellington. I thought that was a major earthquake. Am I wrong?
You are most certainly right
Any chance the beehive is on a fault?
It's pretty close to the Wellington Fault!
This is how TH-cam puts fear up everyone.
Thank you for your comment. The fear is not so useful, but if awareness encourages you to get well prepared for an earthquake that is a positive thing.
If you live in a country that has, frequent quakes.You don't worry too much.
My grand parents farm is on a fault line.
Quake in 1855 sent half the land drop many feet.
Talk about the devil.......
Which one?
The one thats sure to appear,
to bitter understand the rusk.......🙄
😀
Are they still using the Australian Plate since Zealandia is already an underwater continent??
Zealandia is made up of both the Australian and Pacific Plates
Zealandia was existent long before the Pacific/Australian Plate boundary running through NZ was initiated.
By briefly looking at the map, there is a fault running North/South down the centre of Wellington Airport.
That could be interesting “one day”!🛬
Yes, there is one close by, one of the many smaller faults in the region