Magnitude 6.5 Kermadec Islands Region

USGS ^ | March 31, 2006

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Magnitude 6.5 - KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION

2006 March 31 13:20:59 UTC

Earthquake Details

Magnitude	6.5 (Strong)
Date-Time	Friday, March 31, 2006 at 13:20:59 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time Saturday, April 1, 2006 at 1:20:59 AM = local time at epicenter
Location	29.437°S, 176.754°W
Depth	10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region	KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
Distances	110 km (70 miles) E of Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands 300 km (190 miles) NE of L'Esperance Rock, Kermadec Islands 1140 km (710 miles) NE of Auckland, New Zealand 1515 km (940 miles) NNE of WELLINGTON, New Zealand
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 7.8 km (4.8 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters	Nst=153, Nph=153, Dmin=115 km, Rmss=1.02 sec, Gp= 58°, M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=8
	Source	USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID	uskyay

• This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

Earthquake Summary

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• Magnitude 6.5 (Strong)
  # Date-Time Friday, March 31, 2006 at 13:20:59 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time
  # Saturday, April 1, 2006 at 1:20:59 AM = local time at epicenter
  
• Location 29.437°S, 176.754°W
• Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
• Region KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
  
  Distances
  
  
• 110 km (70 miles) E of Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands
• 300 km (190 miles) NE of L'Esperance Rock, Kermadec Islands
• 1140 km (710 miles) NE of Auckland, New Zealand
• 1515 km (940 miles) NNE of WELLINGTON, New Zealand
  
  

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[sully777]

What does Hawaii say about the big T?

[Red Badger]

Seems like I remember the Big Boxing Day Quake/Tsunami was preceded by a couple of weeks of strong tremors in this region.......

[bd476]

No news is good news. As of this moment the most recent Tsunami Bulletin is dated March 14, 2006.

[bd476]

That's possible. The area has a history of large quakes.

[Howlin]

Are you thinking this is okay then? (I'm here to learn from you!)

[bd476]

It was a shallow strong quake which can generate small local tsunamis, and damage to local areas. And of course there's not much in the area to damage.

There's still no tsunami bulletin listed anywhere for this quake. I'll keep checking but it's highly unlikely that a tsunami bulletin related to this particular quake would say anything more than the usual no tsunami generated from this quake however it is possible that local areas may experience small tsunamis....

[bmwcyle]

[bd476]

Theoretical P-Wave Travel Times

Magnitude 6.5 KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
Friday, March 31, 2006 at 13:20:59 UTC

[bd476]

Thanks for posting that graphic map, bmwcyle.

[bd476]

I found some interesting current info about Raoul Island which is 70 miles West of the epicenter of this quake. In short, it's a volcanic island, New Zealand Dept. of Conservation oversees it and from photos it is incredibly beautiful. :-)

The Age.com

Eruption survivors visit Raoul Island
March 22, 2006 - 5:50PM

The five surviving Raoul Island Department of Conservation (DOC) staff have visited the crater where their colleague, Mark Kearney, went missing after a volcanic eruption there last Friday.

The quintet, accompanied by volcanologists from Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS), walked to Mount Moumouaki to view the eruption site and Green Lake on Wednesday morning.

Mr Kearney was taking the temperature of the crater lake when the eruption occurred and is presumed to have died.

DOC Warkworth area manager Rolien Elliot said Mr Kearney's five colleagues - Jim Livingstone, Morgan Cox, Melanie Nelson, Evan Ward and Lynda McGrory-Ward - wanted to see the scene for themselves.

"They needed to see first-hand the effects of the eruption and the changes to the crater and Green Lake, which is still rising," Ms Elliot said.

Photos released by DOC show the level of the lake has risen 8-10m since Friday. It has risen about 2m since Tuesday.

"There's a huge amount of hot water sitting in the lake," DOC spokeswoman Liz Maire told NZPA.

The DOC staff, along with police, volcanologists and searchers, arrived on Tuesday morning at Raoul Island, in the Kermadec Islands about 800km northeast of New Zealand, partly to look for Mr Kearney.

A recovery team got within 1.5km of the lake but could not go any further because it was too dangerous.

The Braveheart is expected to leave the island on Friday at the earliest. Ms Elliot said DOC would decide later in the week whether any of its staff would remain on the island.

She said the hostel the staff were based at had suffered no damage. Its generators, water and waste systems were working normally.

GNS volcanologist Brad Scott said the hostel area was very rarely touched by eruptions on the island.

"In the last 3600 years there have been 15 eruptions on Raoul and only on three occasions were they big enough to produce ash that has reached the site of the hostel."

Meanwhile, the tourist expedition ship Spirit of Enderby will leave Raoul Island on Wednesday without its passengers having landed on the island.

The passengers and crew had their permission to land revoked following the eruption and instead had to do with landing on nearby Meyer Island, close to the coast of Raoul Island, to watch seabirds.
The Age: Eruption survivors visit Raoul Island



Radio New Zealand's story: DOC searchers on Raoul Island to head home

"The Kermadec Islands are New Zealand’s most remote Conservation Area. They have never been connected to mainland New Zealand."
From NZ Seabirds.com (with photos) The Kermadecs

Photo of 21 November 1964 eruption on Raoul, Kermadec Volcano


Photo from Underwater Australasia Underwater.com

Bob Sutton, Researcher's Raoul Island Photos

[fatima]

Thanks for the ping bd476.This is a beautiful Island.

[bd476]

Thanks Fatima. It is completely uninhabited, in fact you have to obtain a permit from New Zealand to land there. The last humans to settle there were whalers around 1700-1800 and before that there were some Maori settlers around 1300.

The researchers from New Zealand's Department of Conservation have had an ongoing campaign to rid the island of feral cats and rats since 2002.

I would love to visit, when the volcano isn't active, that is. :-)




Two kM to the west of fishing rock is the
'village' including the Hostel where the staff live.
Bob Sutton Kermadec Islands

[bd476]

Ping to a big quake near the Kermadec Islands. Story about the researcher presumed lost during recent volcanic activity and photos of Raoul Island included on the thread. :-)

[fatima]

It looks like a dream Island.It would be wonderful to go.

[Experiment 6-2-6]

Thanks, Dude.

Since my beachfront property faces the South, only freerepublic will give me the necessary time required to avoid the tsunami that will drown the rest of the population!!!