G'morning Paul, 

 PR> My website has links to the PNSN real-time on-line newtork.  I saw
 PR> low frequency "ringing" on a seismometer in Forks, Washington, on
 PR> the Olypmic Peninsula, for several hours afterward.

Nice one - I'll have a look...

 MM> Auckland is, of course, absolutely impervious !

 PR> You're sitting right on a plate boundary just like Iceland!  It
 PR> has split and divided one of your mountains, on North Island
 PR> IIRC.  A subduction zone earthquake is in the cards for you.
 PR> There was one here in the PNW from the Juan de Fuca Plate
 PR> subduction zone 300 years ago, recorded in Japanese annals.

Mt Ruapehu, most likely - just south of Lake Taupo, the water 
filled remains of a huge volcano which erupted last in Biblical 
times, spreading ash over Australia and the South Pacific and 
recorded in Roman records as colouring their skies for many 
months.  I heard an enthusiastic vulcanologist say he'd wanted to 
watch it blow again - from Sydney, Australia, 2000kms away....

 MM> But keeping emergency packs ready to go, plus a contingency plan
 MM> for all obvious scenarios, in this Auckland household is the order
 MM> of the day right here.  The next step is to secure automatic
 MM> cellphone alerts, but I ain't holding my breath...

 PR> Learn the position!  Sitting on the ground with your knees up
 PR> and ankles close to the body--so you can kis your *** goodbye.

I recall one of my ABC instructors urging each of us to maintain a 
slit trench at all times,  with the debris neatly packed on a  
piece of PVC alongside.  The drill in event of atomic warfare was 
to take cover in it, pull the PVC's contents over one ... and thus 
leave the place as tidy as one found it...

Ah me...

:-))

 PR> Paul Rogers, paulgrogers{at}yahoo.com                       -o)
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