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Outbackozzie
 Post subject: Kalgoorlie Earthquake!!
PostPosted: Apr 20th, '10, 08:46 
Seriously, this cant be healthy.
Seriously, this cant be healthy.
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Wow!! Shoulda been here, waiting for news to filter through, the Superpit was closed down, including the lookout. The pit wall has moved about two inches away from the lookout, making big cracks in the ground.
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PostPosted: Apr 20th, '10, 08:57 
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Wow - yeah, nuthin' on the news services yet ! 2 inches is a shipload of movement :shock:
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PostPosted: Apr 20th, '10, 08:59 
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4.8 to 5.2 magnitude, around 30km NNE of Kal, caused a fair bit of damage to buildings in Boulder. Some facades have collapsed on older buildings.
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PostPosted: Apr 20th, '10, 09:02 
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/20/2877497.htm?site=goldfields&section=news

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There has been an earth tremor in the Western Australian Goldfields city of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

The tremor was felt just after 08:00 am.

One resident in Kambalda, Bernadette says the floors and the walls shook and she ran to get her baby out of its cot and her husband leapt up from the couch so they could shelter beneath door frames.

Another resident in Boulder says the china cabinet came loose from the walls.

One resident says the Boulder Central School is being evacuated.

ABC local radio is reporting that workers from Kalgoorlie's superpit have also been evacuated.

The scale of the tremor is not yet known but there are reports of damage in Boulder.



http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010vhab.php#details

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Earthquake Details
Magnitude 5.2
Date-Time Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 00:17:08 UTC
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 08:17:08 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 30.530°S, 121.653°E
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Distances 30 km (20 miles) NE of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Australia
225 km (140 miles) SSW of Laverton, Western Australia, Ausgralia
340 km (210 miles) ENE of Merredin, Western Australia, Australia
575 km (360 miles) ENE of PERTH, Western Australia, Australia

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 13.3 km (8.3 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters NST= 18, Nph= 18, Dmin=614.5 km, Rmss=0.87 sec, Gp=162°,
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=6
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)


Event ID us2010vhab


What a way to finish night shift!!
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PostPosted: Apr 20th, '10, 09:15 
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I had to google the superpit...a gold mine. Are the lookouts for visitors - or part of the operation?
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PostPosted: Apr 20th, '10, 09:17 
5.2 .... :shock: .... that's a biggie for Australia...
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PostPosted: Apr 20th, '10, 09:23 
Seriously, this cant be healthy.
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Biggest in the goldfields since record keeping began....water in the fish tank was sloshing about etc - just like you see on tv.

DV - just a tourist lookout.

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So pretty serious.
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PostPosted: Apr 20th, '10, 09:24 
P.S .... that's what it looked like before.... :mrgreen:
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PostPosted: Apr 20th, '10, 09:25 
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Nah, there is pretty much no pubs that are run down out here any more.
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PostPosted: Apr 20th, '10, 09:59 
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Just had another quite small tremor.


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PostPosted: Apr 20th, '10, 10:57 
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earthquakes are fun...unless you dont trust your building :shock:

we just had that 6.2 on Easter...not to far way from me. we loved the one minute of rolling earth and water jumping out of fish tanks...1st time my whole family experienced one together...we were all high-fiveing each other...were weird :roll:

i think it would be a different story down there after looking at the pics :shock:

but fell lucky, down just a little south of me; alot of Mexicali collapsed and 2 people died :shock:

there only fun becuase i remeber the
6.9loma-prieta(S.F. world series)
7.3 Landers
7.0 big bear
7.2 cape mendocino
6.5 san simeon
7.1 heckter mines
and the 6.2 Easter-baja Quake
so welcome to the club... :wave:

hey at least earthquakes dont come with bad weather :thumbright:

ps my house is on the foot hill of the San Andreas Fault...that thing is just about to jump to...
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PostPosted: Apr 20th, '10, 11:17 
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o and i forgot the northrige 6.7 witch killed 72 poeple here in california and 20 billion in damage...so that one not so fun
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PostPosted: Apr 21st, '10, 07:02 
Seriously, this cant be healthy.
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Lost 8 fish in the earthquake, the percussion must have shocked them or something :upset:

Also caused a small leak where the fitting comes out of the tank.


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PostPosted: Apr 21st, '10, 07:02 
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DF you are a tripper lol :laughing3:
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PostPosted: Apr 21st, '10, 07:38 
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monya wrote:
DF you are a tripper lol :laughing3:

lol monya.
look at this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd_EYWcOMfI
i just hope all of you down there are all safe and sound. but it make me sad about the fisheys.. :(
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