Wellington Earthquake warning ! - New Zealand

[The Matrix Traveller]

Matrix, is there any connection between the earthquakes and fracking?  I tried searching, but my non-knowledge of New Zealand geography leaves me not really knowing where to look.

Yes fracking is taking place in NZ in the Taranaki area, 3 to 400 km North of Wellington
and Cook Strait.

Fracking has been a public issue in NZ, but the official report by gov. Fracking so far, has not caused
any problems in NZ but the gov. is actively monitoring the situation I understand.

I'm looking for Geological "Vertical Gradient" maps showing subterranean Cavities of the North
and South Islands, showing any known cavities esp. along Trenches and Alpine or Ocean Ridges.

NZ has many caves etc. but I am interested in Caverns etc. deeper than 2 km esp. around 5
to 20 Km depth, IF in fact Large Cavities or Caverns do exist at these depths in the Earth's crust.

[Shasta56]

It wouldn't surprise me to learn that such caverns exist.  There's a lot we don't know.  I'll keep my whiskers alert for any messages from elsewhere.

Shasta

[The Matrix Traveller]

It wouldn't surprise me to learn that such caverns exist.  There's a lot we don't know.  I'll keep my whiskers alert for any messages from elsewhere.

Shasta

Thanks Shasta... I know very little about this myself and was hoping Z would be able to enlighten us
regarding this, as he is into Geology.

[The Matrix Traveller]

Another Strong Earthquake.  Magnitude: 4.3 in the Wanaka area in the South Island of NZ. Indicated by the "A".

Another Shallow Earthquake.

Public Id: 2013p668425
NZST: Thursday, September 5 2013 at 7:37:16 pm
New Zealand region intensity ?: light
Maximum intensity ?: strong
Depth: 9 km
Magnitude: 4.3
Location:  40 km north-east of Wanaka

[The Matrix Traveller]

Public Id: 2013p670310
NZST: Friday, September 6 2013 at 12:21:26 pm
New Zealand region intensity ?: light
Maximum intensity ?: moderate
Depth: 12 km
Magnitude: 3.6
Location:  20 km east of Seddon

[robomont]

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/episodes/beneath-the-crust/ i saw this show and wanted to pass it to yall.good quality national geographic.

[The Matrix Traveller]

I missed this one which was this morning... at 8: 29 am

Public Id: 2013p669875
NZST: Friday, September 6 2013 at 8:29:49 am
New Zealand region intensity ?: light
Maximum intensity ?: moderate
Depth: 17 km
Magnitude: 3.7
Location:  10 km east of Seddon

[The Matrix Traveller]

I have just finished watching the evening news on TV1.

There was a gov. warning put out in a calm way bringing peoples attention to the possibility
of an earthquake between 6.5 and 7.8 could happen in the future and that people should
be aware of the possibility of tsunami on the western coast of the North island as faults
north of the south Island have become active in the sea.

Location: of activity  65 km north-west of Collingwood shown marked on the map below with an "A"

News Item, Friday September 06, 2013

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/new-west-coast-earthquake-fault-found-5573887

The report identifies 10 active marine faults in a 320-kilometre stretch from Hokitika to Farewell Spit.

That includes three new faults, informally named the Farewell, Elizabeth and Razorback faults, and divides the 250km-long Cape Foulwind Fault into five segments.

The faults run parallel to the coastline within 30km of land, some only a few kilometres offshore, and vary in length from 10km to the longest, Kongahu Fault, at 120km.

As I said I have a very, very bad feeling about what is happening in NZ.
Most seem oblivious to what is about to happen...

The activity which has started is in a bunch of faults not usually shown and I am trying to locate these
maps now. The faults were shown on TV tonight.

[Flux]

Read about it this morning.

People just get on with their lives and don't blink an eyelid to any of the news.

I do my job for the day but in the back of my head I still know of a possible threat to this country.

[The Matrix Traveller]

Read about it this morning.

People just get on with their lives and don't blink an eyelid to any of the news.

I do my job for the day but in the back of my head I still know of a possible threat to this country.

A balanced outlook there Flux... I have found out the name of the earthquake Fault...

It is called the Whakamarama Fault which passes through Golden Bay and ends up northeast of Whanganui
in the North Island. Obviously connected with the old Trench.

This Fault has been active since the 1970's, so not sure why the Gov. have brought this to our notice now ?

Unless they have known something they haven't told us (Public) in the past... 

[The Matrix Traveller]

Public Id: 2013p672666
NZST: Saturday, September 7 2013 at 9:16:48 am
New Zealand region intensity ?: weak
Maximum intensity ?: moderate
Depth: 10 km
Magnitude: 3.4
Location:  25 km south-east of Karamea

Location indicated by the "A" Flag on this map.

Involving the "Whakamarama Fault".  (Old Spelling; Wakamarama)

It doesn't show the full details about this in the above map but this fault extends northeast across
the South Taranaki Bight (I am trying to find Chart showing this) and from just North of Wanganui
(near Maxwell) Also referred to as "The Whakamarama Fault"

North East, East involving Mt. Taranaki on the left, Mt. Ruapehu National Park, Taupo and Rotarua to the Kermadek
& Colville Ridges and the Havre Trough. (old Trench but what may be more a "Plate Fracture" instead)


The Whakamarama Fault is what I referred to as the Old Trench is more like a "Plate Facture".
But I am still finding out more about this.

It would appear that the trench through Cook Strait....

is actually another "fracture" between the "Whakamarama Fault" (Fracture) and the "Kermadec Trench"
on the eastern side of the North and South Islands.

Most of the concern appears to be around possible "subsidence" in the Cook Strait area as there has been
in the past some thousand years ago similar to the East Cape Subsidence.

IF this were to occur in Cook Strait on the Wellington side then this could account for what I saw
through Remote Viewing, re. the 2 Sinkholes I saw appear in Wellington City.

Cook Strait was checked out by Geologists just after the last strong Earthquake in Cook Strait.


The East Cape Subsidence

East Cape Subsidence

Looking like a landslide on any over-grazed hill, this submarine slide off East Cape is tens of thousands
of times bigger. The slide occurred on a slope about the same height as Mt Cook. Blocks, some larger
than Mt Ruapehu (18 kilometres wide), travelled nearly 50 kilometres out across a completely flat abyssal floor.
Fortunately, it probably happened more than 155,000 years ago. It is thought that the slope may have
been destabilised by a volcanic seamount on the Pacific Plate carried along towards and under the Australian Plate.

Submarine landslides

In places, New Zealand's continental slope is not stable, either because rocks are being tilted seawards
or because land-derived sediments are collecting there. Lubricated by water, and subject to severe earthquakes,
steep underwater slopes are prone to crumbling and slipping. However, even very gentle slopes
(some off Hawke's Bay are only 1°) can slide.

When a section of the seabed collapses it pulls down the water above it. When the sea rebounds,
a tsunami is born. Small submarine landslides have come close to capsizing Kaik?ura fishing boats
in otherwise calm seas. One near Gisborne may have caused the tsunami that caused extensive flooding
in 1947. The huge landslide off East Cape, first mapped in 1995, would have generated catastrophic waves.
Fortunately it occurred about 170,000 years ago – long before people were living in New Zealand.

In many cases slips are merely tens of metres thick, but in a few places submarine landslides have been
on a truly massive scale. One such slide, the Ruatoria Debris Avalanche, occurred on a 3-kilometre-high slope
off East Cape. Over 3,000 cubic kilometres of rock collapsed (equivalent to the area of Coromandel Peninsula
falling from Mt Cook). It left a 30-kilometre-wide amphitheatre and a tangle of blocks – some 17 kilometres across
and 1.5 kilometres high – littering the abyssal sea floor for up to 50 kilometres beyond the toe of the slope.

[Amaterasu]

Wow, Matrix!  It does look like it's building up to something NOT fun.

I will keep good energies flowing that, whatever happens, You will be safe.

[The Matrix Traveller]

Another Shallow moderate Earthquake in Cook Strait.

NZST: Saturday, September 7 2013 at 9:51:13 pm
Maximum intensity ?: moderate
Depth: 5 km
Magnitude: 3.3
Location:  5 km north of Seddon

[Shasta56]

So, I'm wondering if the gov't has known about this for awhile, but is just now admitting it because it's too hard to keep things quiet with the internet traffic.  I feel like something is hiding in plain sight.  Are there old stories of earthquakes and tsunamis in the area?  By old, I mean pre-European.

Shasta

[The Matrix Traveller]

So, I'm wondering if the gov't has known about this for awhile, but is just now admitting it because it's too hard to keep things quiet with the internet traffic.  I feel like something is hiding in plain sight.  Are there old stories of earthquakes and tsunamis in the area?  By old, I mean pre-European.

Shasta

YES.   

Like for instance in Maori Legends;

According to Maori Legend, Mt Ruapehu and Mt. Taranaki were one side by side and Mt. Taranki fled
down what is now the Whanganui river and up the coast to where it is today near New Plymouth
and Stratford.....

Plate Shift ? ? ?

Perhaps.   


Maori also say that one day Mt. Taranaki will return to be with Mt Ruapehu once again.   

http://www.nzterritory.com/geographic/battle.html

Back in mythological times when mountains lived and loved, many mountains dwelt in the centre
of the North Island -- Mt. Taranaki among them. 

While Tongariro was away, Taranaki wooed and won Tongariro's wife, the graceful Pihanga.

Tongariro returned at sunrise to find the guilty pair and in the struggle that followed Taranaki was banished.

The depression under Fanthams Peak was caused by a kick from Tongariro, and the coup de grace
caused the cleft in Taranaki's summit.

Taranaki retreated ignominiously to the west coast of the North Island, carving the course of the Wanganui River

as he went and filling it with his tears, and then moved North to his present position.

While resting near Stratford, his weight caused the depression which became known as Te Ngaere Swamp.

When he paused to rest again near the coast, the Pouakai Range threw out a spur and when Taranaki awoke
he was forever a prisoner.

To this day Taranaki gazes silently at his lover and his rival. Pihanga still loves Taranaki and sighs occasionally
when she thinks of him, while Taranaki, when covered in mist, is said to be weeping for his lost love.

Meanwhile, Tongariro, the enraged and jealous husband, still smoulders with fury.

http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/1966/ruapehu-mount/page-3

Maori Legend of Mounts Ruapehu and Taranaki (Egmont)

Ruapehu, the beautiful maid, was married to Taranaki. One day, while her husband was away hunting,
she was wooed and won by Tongariro. When Taranaki returned at the end of the day he surprised
the guilty pair.

A titanic battle ensued in which Taranaki was defeated. He retreated towards the west coast, carving out
the course of the Wanganui River as he went.

When he reached the coast he moved northwards to the western extremity of the North Island,
where he rested.

There his great weight made the shallow depression which afterwards filled with water and became Te Ngaere swamp.
Taranaki, or Egmont, as Cook named him, now sits in silence looking towards his wife and his rival.

In spite of her infidelity, Ruapehu still loves her husband and sighs occasionally as she remembers him,
while the mist, which drifts eastward from his head, is the visible sign of Taranaki's love for her.

For his part, Tongariro, who despairs of ever possessing her again, smokes and smoulders with anger.

To this day travellers in the Tongariro National Park see the basin called Rua Taranaki, "the Pit of Taranaki",
which lies to the east of the Tama Saddle which was the original home of Taranaki.

The name Ruapehu does not appear to commemorate any event in Maori legend. Broken into its components
it means rua (two) and pehu (to explode or make a loud noise). But this method of breaking down
Maori place names in order to explain their meaning is far from reliable.

(( By Bernard John Foster, M.A., Research Officer, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington
and Thomas Ludovic Grant-Taylor, M.SC., New Zealand Geological Survey, Lower Hutt.

Geology of the Tongariro Subdivision, Bulletin 40 N.S., Geological Survey Department, Gregg, D. R. (1960). ))