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New Zealand Earthquake: One Of The Most Complex Ever Recorded On Land
Via The Watchers, 16 November 2016
New Zealand's GeoNet has revised their initial magnitude of the November 13, 2016 Kaikoura earthquake from M7.5 to M7.8. The agency added that early indications show this was one of the most complex earthquakes ever recorded on land.
"This complexity means we have had to take extraordinary efforts to determine the magnitude, depth, and locations," the agency said.
The very long time it took for the faults to rupture (over one minute) meant that the standard methods of calculating magnitude were insufficient to capture the full...
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New Zealand Earthquake: One Of The Most Complex Ever Recorded On Land
Via The Watchers, 16 November 2016
New Zealand's GeoNet has revised their initial magnitude of the November 13, 2016 Kaikoura earthquake from M7.5 to M7.8. The agency added that early indications show this was one of the most complex earthquakes ever recorded on land.
"This complexity means we have had to take extraordinary efforts to determine the magnitude, depth, and locations," the agency said.
The very long time it took for the faults to rupture (over one minute) meant that the standard methods of calculating magnitude were insufficient to capture the full...
Click here to continue on to the original article.
