Simulation of a Magnitude 8.4 Megathrust Quake in New Zealand

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Yoshihiro Kaneko shows how computer models of seismic waves and the associated tsunami from a plate boundary earthquake allow us to estimate the potential impacts. This work was funded by New Zealand's Natural Hazards Research Platform and public research funding from the Government of New Zealand.

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I live in palmerston north

The sky tower in auckland is safe from a 8.0 quake within 8km of it.The sky tower is actually taller than the eiffel tower.sky tower is 400 something meters and eiffel is 328m. to see how we're doing go to chirstchurch earthquake in 2011. then we have some 7.8 wanna join us?! I've been in 5.0,7.1 NZ IS FUN!love it here(Gisborne mee)

So concise, good voice, and thank you. I live in Wellington. Have you another one in regard to the 'slow slip' event that is currently occuring all along the Hikurangi Subduction zone and in between our two Islands?

who cares life sucks anyway

I live in palmerston north

wow!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for this Yoshihiro, and thank you for helping us out in NZ, it is great to see that we are working with Japan for the benefit of both our nations with the earthquake risks we share. I hope you enjoy your time in NZ.

Could this be initiated by the US BOOM ship?

That evil little Jap is planning a post-quake invasion of our islands.

I'm at the bottom :( Fuck my life.

Actually the ground shaking velocity was twice as much as this in chch at 2.2 times that of gravity at its fastest hence the damage

a 6.6 hit Hanmer springs just minutes ago!

Thanks for sharing this. Just wondering about the velocity scale - are those numbers representing about 100km? i.e. the slow, red waves look like they are going around 10km/s?

How long ago in geological terms was the last major Earthquake along the Hikurangi fault?

atleast i don't have to worry about volcanoes(which my country hasn't),tsunami (because it would be unable to reach through Poland or Germany and Mountins all over our border) or earthquake because we don't have fault lines in eastern europe

Good simulation but drop cover hold is soooo wrong.

Well when will it happen?

When did the last event of this kind of magnitude to occur? Also how long can a fault rupture be (maximum possible lenght)?

Well good bye Hawkes Bay if this happens

Hi !! It is a very good simulation indeed. Can you please tell in what software this was generated ?