{"id":551,"date":"2010-09-08T15:17:13","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T05:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=551"},"modified":"2010-09-20T12:49:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T02:49:42","slug":"video-six-months-of-new-zealands-seismic-activity-in-graphics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/science\/video-six-months-of-new-zealands-seismic-activity-in-graphics\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Six months of New Zealand&#8217;s seismic activity in less than a minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_564\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 605px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-564\" title=\"nz\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/nz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/nz.jpg 605w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/nz-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/nz-119x74.jpg 119w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Martin Luff via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nThe huge 7.1 scale earthquake that shook the south island of New Zealand last week caused few serious casualties, but left widespread structural damage in its wake. <!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The animation below, created by <a href=\"http:\/\/sciblogs.co.nz\/seeing-data\/2010\/09\/08\/six-months-of-seismic-activity-in-under-a-minute\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris McDowall<\/a> and based on information released by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geonet.org.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand Geonet<\/a>, shows how little seismic activity there was in the Christchurch region in the six months leading up to the quake. The data appears to support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/a-16000year-pause-then-a-colossal-quake-20100906-14xz4.html\" target=\"blank\">claims<\/a> that scientists had little reason to believe a faultline under the city even existed prior to the event.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below and wait for the amazing blue explosion depicting the earthquake on September 4.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/14785341\" width=\"400\" height=\"410\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/14785341\">Visualising six months of New Zealand earthquake data (Apr 1 &#8211; Sep 7, 2010)<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/fogonwater\">Chris McDowall<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciblogs.co.nz\/seeing-data\/2010\/09\/08\/six-months-of-seismic-activity-in-under-a-minute\">[Sciblogs]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The huge 7.1 scale earthquake that shook the south island of New Zealand last week caused few serious casualties, but left widespread structural damage in its wake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,36,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geology","category-news","category-science","category-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}