Drilling into New Zealand's Most Dangerous Fault

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  • @answersforlooking9430
    @answersforlooking9430 7 років тому +11

    kinda messed uo watching this 6 months after the 7.8 eq that made ocean floors rise up 6-9 ft and ill nevet forget seeing on the news those 2 cows standinh on a little chunk of land where they could barely move and all the land around them is gone. eq's are horrible but this one was truly eerie in the way it gave us unforgetable pics and sights..... hope everyone is getting back to what normal can be considered. im very sorry

    • @Lara-234
      @Lara-234 6 років тому +1

      I live in Christchurch and I hope the apline doesn't go.. I've been through all the huge earth quakes over the years

    • @davidarundel6187
      @davidarundel6187 3 роки тому

      There's been quite a few more earthquakes lately, further up the Kahurangi subduction zones northern end, off shore, that have been over 4.5, & up to 5.8.
      Since the Kaikoura one - to which you refer - there's been several dozen, of quakes, of the size mentioned abouve, which have been widely felt.

    • @answersforlooking9430
      @answersforlooking9430 3 роки тому

      @@davidarundel6187 you live in the area?

    • @davidarundel6187
      @davidarundel6187 3 роки тому

      @@answersforlooking9430 I know how to get best performance from animals & plant - you do not mistreat them.
      It's " Doing for others, as I, would have done for myself".
      Pity you wee not present with me, yesterday, when pepole - elderly - and a short while later, service dogs, were interacted with, positively, much to their owners delight, as they noted the reaction from their animals, and the Seniors, care providers, saw the Happyness, afforded to their "Guests". The care providers, were also 'treated', and taught something about Bay Laurel, which they did not know. A new way to use it, and the health benifits to be gained, for those who have trouble maintaining correct blood sugar levels. 🙏

  • @allgood6760
    @allgood6760 3 роки тому +7

    Thanks GNS 🇳🇿👍

  • @MegaPoxie
    @MegaPoxie 4 роки тому +17

    A bit sad how modern buildings built to code in Chch and again in Wgtn failed where old remained intact. Apparently, the code is only useful in a long-drop!

    • @alexpearson8481
      @alexpearson8481 3 роки тому +3

      True true. Pressure waves propagating with peaks and valleys of intensity could be some of the reason.

    • @ljmcdonald2703
      @ljmcdonald2703 3 роки тому +1

      All buildings in Wellington have been closed due to quake risk pathetic

    • @tanyadidham2287
      @tanyadidham2287 2 роки тому +4

      Many of the fatalities in the city were from falling masonry parapets that came off several older buildings. And it was just two poorly-constructed modern buildings that failed, causing most of the terrible death toll. Even then, they both fell in the 2nd quake in Feb, and should have already been deemed uninhabitable after the September shake. Combination of poor engineering, poor oversight, poor safety inspections and bad decisions. But pretty much all our buildings - old and new - stayed standing.

    • @Kiwigeo8339
      @Kiwigeo8339 2 місяці тому

      @@alexpearson8481 You've just made a half a*sed description of S waves. We already know that S and surface waves cause most of the damage during an earthquake

    • @alexpearson8481
      @alexpearson8481 Місяць тому

      @@Kiwigeo8339 why is it that you presume that I know anything whatsoever about earthquakes or geology? So, whose comment is truly half as§Ed? Haven’t really thought it through, have we? The best thing about being humble in life is it allows us to keep an open mind. It’s just like Elon musk said; classical education (also science, history, etc) is a mental straight jacket. Why would he say that? And since we’re on the subject of science (at the risk of sounding arrogant) I’ll be more than happy to debate quantum gravity, the standard model, a trapped surface, etc.

  • @joyfuljoyful6598
    @joyfuljoyful6598 4 роки тому +14

    When we had the Kaikoura earthquake the Amazon Warrior the largest fracking ship in the world was fracking in Cloudy Bay. It disappeared after the earthquake struck.

    • @peteacher52
      @peteacher52 4 роки тому +9

      You're right! Now I remember the warnings from alternative sources about the real business of that bloody ship. Trying to trigger an earthquake under the guise of mineral resource exploration. Bastards.

    • @ralsharp6013
      @ralsharp6013 4 роки тому +9

      Really sad about the lost men.. Fracking poisons underground water and creates huge toxic waste. Should be outlawed..

    • @jeroenjansen2709
      @jeroenjansen2709 4 роки тому +7

      Maybe fracking causes earthquakes, especially in areas where tectonic plates come together

    • @joyfuljoyful6598
      @joyfuljoyful6598 4 роки тому +11

      @@jeroenjansen2709 Apparently the ship was directly above the plates there were blue flashes of lights that came up out of the sea and lit up the sky and moments later the earthquake struck. My neice living in Wellington on a hill witnessed the lights prior to the strike.

    • @joyfuljoyful6598
      @joyfuljoyful6598 4 роки тому +5

      @@peteacher52 Yes you're correct the incident should have been investigated because they were fracking above the tectonic plates.

  • @Pete856
    @Pete856 8 днів тому

    It's going to be hard to warn early enough for it to make any difference. It was funny last year (2023) we had a 6.0 quake in the Canterbury foothills, felt the quake for 10-15 seconds, it was enough to make things rattle but not destructive. Then about 20 seconds after it stopped the emergency alert system on my phone went off warning of a quake in the area....so a complete waste of time, all it did was scare people who were already feeling nervous.

  • @barrydeer3722
    @barrydeer3722 2 роки тому +5

    Question: why can't a mirror be placed at the bottom
    of such a hole, and then shin a laser down in order to get very sensitive measurements in changes
    to soil layer movement/positions? Also, what about taking audio frequency measurements
    recording how the soil compresses and then grow quiet right before slippage and energy release?

    • @Kiwigeo8339
      @Kiwigeo8339 2 місяці тому

      "why can't a mirror be placed at the bottom"
      Because the borehole is full of opaque drilling fluid. The drilling fluid is there to stop the borehole caving in and also to control any ingress or formation fluids.

  • @eruetifoster6184
    @eruetifoster6184 5 років тому +4

    Great work

  • @danno9846
    @danno9846 3 роки тому +7

    Lots of faults here. None of them my fault!

  • @Saucyakld
    @Saucyakld 2 роки тому +1

    He is right, we had a gigantic earth quake

  • @davet8185
    @davet8185 4 роки тому +2

    Real nice video

  • @dk8797
    @dk8797 3 роки тому +5

    and today 8.1 earthquake struck NZ

    • @Colinthediver
      @Colinthediver 3 роки тому +1

      Not on that fault was the east side this faults the west

    • @Kiwigeo8339
      @Kiwigeo8339 2 місяці тому

      @@Colinthediver The Mw 8.1 2021 quake was way up in The Kermadecs....nowhere near Kaikoura.

  • @BD-bditw
    @BD-bditw Рік тому

    Two significant quakes hit Christchurch 21 April 2023. All building up and transferring pressure to the main fault ready for the big one. Some predict that when it goes it will be the biggest quake in recorded history.

    • @Battleneter
      @Battleneter 3 місяці тому

      There are about 15,000 Earthquakes in NZ each year, there have been no damaging quakes in CHCH in over a decade now and the 2010 and 2011 events had nothing to do with the Alpine fault anyway. You can't cherry pick a few random events trying to prove some kind of link.

  • @swank1975
    @swank1975 7 років тому +2

    The Misty Mountains have a huge fault about to lead to a quake?

  • @Lara-234
    @Lara-234 6 років тому +7

    And I live in the south island yay

  • @barneymaurirere9592
    @barneymaurirere9592 2 місяці тому

    COOLEST THING ON YOU TUBE . HOMETOWN STUFF NEW ZEALAND STYLES .

  • @mistyfrequency7261
    @mistyfrequency7261 4 роки тому +8

    We're used to living on a waka and a fish isn't that much more stable... 😃

    • @kini6620
      @kini6620 3 роки тому +1

      More the fact, what comes after an Earthquake in one of the most volcanic active place on Earth. Unless that waka can take you out into space, we're all fucked. Love from Te Aranui Tribe.

  • @johnfreeborn979
    @johnfreeborn979 6 років тому +2

    What about the Hikurangi subduction zone.

    • @davidarundel6187
      @davidarundel6187 3 роки тому +1

      The Kahurangi subduction zone is over 200 miles east, out at sea from the Alpine Fault, which is on land, though both are connected

    • @suehowie152
      @suehowie152 3 роки тому

      Plenty of videos about the Hikurangi..

  • @TheEarthHistorysConfusing
    @TheEarthHistorysConfusing 3 роки тому +1

    3:05 says they drilled in 2011 to 150 meters. What date was it?. A big earthquake hit that year claiming lot's of lives. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake

    • @CodGeronimo
      @CodGeronimo 2 роки тому +5

      That wasn't part of the Alpine fault system, and I highly doubt something as insignificant as that hole is going to cause an actual earthquake.

    • @tanyadidham2287
      @tanyadidham2287 2 роки тому +2

      Earthquakes are centred kilometres down, not metres. And the biggest ones are often the deepest.

    • @emmabolter8729
      @emmabolter8729 9 місяців тому +1

      That earthquake was part of the port hills fault and activity on that fault was triggered by the greendale fault earthquake near darfield a year earlier. the greendale fault is a stress fracture from the immense pressure in the alpine fault. the drilling was done very far from this area of the alpine fault

    • @TheEarthHistorysConfusing
      @TheEarthHistorysConfusing 9 місяців тому

      @@emmabolter8729 oh okay thanks for letting me know.

  • @bexhampton3311
    @bexhampton3311 Рік тому

    Just why...

  • @meowmiau6117
    @meowmiau6117 Рік тому +1

    There is human there, but not crowded

  • @btbb3726
    @btbb3726 3 роки тому +2

    There will be an earthquake here in the next x hundred years. Nice work.

    • @davidarundel6187
      @davidarundel6187 3 роки тому +1

      Don't tempt fate.
      Your words may come back to bite you.

    • @lilliths-httyd-channel
      @lilliths-httyd-channel 2 роки тому +1

      @@davidarundel6187 no shit lol that's how earthquakes work

  • @shoutoutsforsubs2390
    @shoutoutsforsubs2390 7 років тому +1

    WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @AndrewSheldon
    @AndrewSheldon 3 роки тому

    What is the statistical change of major earthquake along the fault? Equal risk?

    • @mmmBetty9
      @mmmBetty9 3 роки тому

      A channel called "Out There Learning" did a good video about how they are trying to predict quakes on the alpine fault. Well worth a look, the whole channel is great.

  • @akuhatamorrow6387
    @akuhatamorrow6387 9 років тому +3

    Did anyone see the cowboy get burnt 4:07 hahaha

  • @redemtiont.777
    @redemtiont.777 6 років тому +2

    Will be much sooner than they telling you.

    • @Lara-234
      @Lara-234 6 років тому +1

      I live there yay 😂🖒

  • @jordanwoolley3475
    @jordanwoolley3475 4 роки тому +1

    Shit if it happens it happens :/

  • @anilsharma-ev2my
    @anilsharma-ev2my 3 роки тому

    Juat show the time and we found the next happening

  • @pmjd42
    @pmjd42 3 роки тому

    WOW! We "think"?

  • @user-ii1iy8fz1d
    @user-ii1iy8fz1d 3 роки тому +1

    What do you mean "if it happens"
    Seriously?

    • @BD-bditw
      @BD-bditw Рік тому

      It is absolutely, positively and definitely one hundred percent CERTAIN that it will happen in the not too distant future. Imagine how many times it has happened to thrust the Southern Alps up into the sky. Were it not for erosion Mount Cook would today be 27km high as against the 3.7km that it is. (Info source: the book 'Rise And Fall Of The Southern Alps').

  • @welshy4638
    @welshy4638 3 роки тому +11

    After watching a series of these videos I'm led to the conclusion that New Zealand is about as stable as Greta Thunberg.

    • @ljmcdonald2703
      @ljmcdonald2703 3 роки тому +3

      That snowflake is overrated

    • @katerinakemp5701
      @katerinakemp5701 2 роки тому

      🤣🥰🤣

    • @tanyadidham2287
      @tanyadidham2287 2 роки тому

      Wow, a bash-up on a teenage girl with autism. You must all be so proud.

    • @welshy4638
      @welshy4638 2 роки тому

      Tanya you're a worthless brain-dead moron just like Greta, apart from she's manipulative enough to have made a shit ton of cash along with countless first class flights around the world.

    • @BD-bditw
      @BD-bditw Рік тому

      More stable than the present government of NZ though.

  • @dan4345
    @dan4345 4 роки тому

    And what did we learn?

  • @godgamerconnorfrost6869
    @godgamerconnorfrost6869 3 роки тому +1

    And they are rebuilding Christchurch city where it will be affected by the earthquake ..

    • @jimybo20
      @jimybo20 3 роки тому +3

      Strange comment? the whole country will be affected.

  • @iLoveThisVideo
    @iLoveThisVideo 3 роки тому +2

    Why on earth drill into something that causes destruction ...I think you would just be interfering with it

    • @JG-wz4bt
      @JG-wz4bt 3 роки тому

      I wrote the same thing. Scientists will be the end of us

    • @hatcher8828
      @hatcher8828 2 місяці тому

      They are drilling 20 cm diamerer hole in a fault that is thousands of kilometer long. The plate tectonics weigh billions of tons and you think this hole is going to bring it all down.

  • @davidorpwood8433
    @davidorpwood8433 3 роки тому

    they have not got a clue //

  • @godgamerconnorfrost6869
    @godgamerconnorfrost6869 3 роки тому

    It doesn’t look right how the mountains just stop on the west coast

    • @davidarundel6187
      @davidarundel6187 3 роки тому +1

      It's a bit like California, and South America's West Coast then.

  • @Yahgiggle
    @Yahgiggle 3 роки тому

    The big word is is MAY it also May come to nothing in other words its like buying a lotto ticket with far less chances of winning oO waste of money if you ask me, i would rather see the money go into new building design that would help save lives.

  • @blackiecat4984
    @blackiecat4984 9 років тому

    shit sticks!

  • @jrregan
    @jrregan 4 роки тому +3

    Alpine, there's your solution. Start cutting those tree's and use them for shoring. That should give you at least another 50 years of bracing.

    • @user-ii1iy8fz1d
      @user-ii1iy8fz1d 3 роки тому

      Lmfao. Love it. Best to use those rare dense hardwoods!

  • @mahulad7298
    @mahulad7298 3 роки тому

    Alarm system with a 10 second warning" Hmm! just long enough to put my head between my legs a kiss my buttocks good bye😒

  • @watevs6717
    @watevs6717 5 років тому +2

    now is that safe drilling on a dangerous faultline???? could you inadvertantly trigger an earthquake?

    • @GNSscience
      @GNSscience  5 років тому +4

      Have a look at this video that tackles the same question: ua-cam.com/video/jQ1xYGy1Cd8/v-deo.html

    • @stivi739
      @stivi739 2 роки тому +1

      I doubt it..the faults are that deep and huge.. a drill would be like sticking a needle in Eden park

  • @malectric
    @malectric 10 років тому

    The probability of an earthquake occurring anytime is either 0 or 1 isn't it? Either it happens then or it doesn't.

    • @malectric
      @malectric 9 років тому

      ***** I am aware of statistical methods and their limitations which is why I made the comment I did. I liken giving an x% probability of some particular event occurring in y years time as placing a buck each way. I think real earthquake predictions (that is, time and place) will be possible in the future but that in order to do so a much bigger picture needs to be taken into account - the global effects of plate movements. Unfortunately statistical methods flatten curves, suppress outliers and give averages. For example, 10 quakes per century is equivalent in statistical terms whether they are evenly spaced or occur in a clump over that period of time.

    • @malectric
      @malectric 9 років тому

      ***** For now, yes. But I think we can do better. In the past I have heard the a-is-not-connected-to-b argument but I think that may be changing. It stands to reason that if the earth's surface area doesn't change but relative crustal movements occur in one location there must be some compensatory movement elsewhere. As an obvious example (ignoring slip/shear movements) if new crust is being produced in ocean trenches there must be subduction and/or upthrust occurring elsewhere. I wonder whether global plate movements are currently being mapped in real time?

    • @alanbrown397
      @alanbrown397 6 років тому +3

      the probability over a suitably long period is 100%, the probability over a shorter period is somewhat less than 100%. Trying to nail it down is quite hard.

  • @rozsa7828
    @rozsa7828 5 років тому

    did you drill this around time chch earthqaukes struck perchance stop it now

    • @joyfuljoyful6598
      @joyfuljoyful6598 4 роки тому

      Remember Key speaking in CH CH and twice he mistakenly referenced the earthquake as being man made. According to emails from Hilary Clinton revealed by Julian Assange the quake was orchestrated. The email was available on line and might be on YT. I did read the email and can testify to it's truth, which tied in with Keys admissions.

  • @ianwilliams2633
    @ianwilliams2633 9 років тому +3

    Coincidentally, the first drilling program was conducted just to the Feb 22 quake. which was also attended by The head of FEMA, Rear Admiral (ret) Thad Aleen and his sidekick, Timothy Manning, who ran the EQ response, ably and conveniently assisted by 1000 troops who began the Exercise Southern Katipo (NZ Black Widow) that day, and the Navy were in Port, a Singaporean USAR team already at Harewood ready to be deployed and an extra 400 Urologists (aka Doctors) in town for the exercise - thus indicating someone was really taking the piss...earthquakes, storms, weather control, Uncle Samhain is at it again. Those of the craft do like to leave their mark, hence the 4;40 time signature, the 1300mtr hole (4266ft = 666). But while they may play at their Geo-enginnering and such, they will have to deal with the Landlord sooner or late, and when He shrugs, look out! Yes, it is ground-braking work, and we are the sheepish suckers who will be broken...not long now...NZ is to be the Haiti of the South Pacific...and Wellington will be destroyed...utterly...check out the hologram of NZ on the ne notes and the look on LIz's face on the $20 - by 2020 it will all be as plain as the nose on her face...

    • @ianwilliams2633
      @ianwilliams2633 9 років тому

      oops, typo - Thad Allen...or is that Alien? LOL.Look him up - he looks like such a nice guy...NOT!

    • @chrisgriffin9164
      @chrisgriffin9164 9 років тому +1

      Ian Williams They have been using chemtrails witihn the skies 6 days a week. even from little planes.even after cyclone Pam and after normal storms.they are shipping lots of our water to China. the GE is not for rain.HAARP also has been used within our skies weekly.National hunger to drill for oil. and dolphines and whales have been stranded for unknown reasons at the same time.National laughed chemtrails out of parlament when the greenparty took the topic in,.fracking is to be used soon while towns overseas explode and rivers die.and we all drink what they drop on us within our streams unwillingly.how does the government have such money to use for what they claim brings water when all is a lie.and the GMO corn we have is killing our beesand the nuclear leek has only ten years before it hits our shores.America is falling from their crimes and keys is sucking up to them.

    • @charladybatt7535
      @charladybatt7535 6 років тому +1

      Does it not say that the drill was concluded in feb 2011

    • @Rolly.Polly.
      @Rolly.Polly. 5 років тому +1

      Char LadyBatt lol he just wants to try and minupulate people with his conspiracy theories

  • @JG-wz4bt
    @JG-wz4bt 3 роки тому +1

    Why drill in to it tho for f sake?

    • @pashakdescilly7517
      @pashakdescilly7517 3 роки тому +3

      A small hole drilled for scientific purposes makes no difference to a sbduction fault thousands of miles long.

    • @JG-wz4bt
      @JG-wz4bt 3 роки тому

      @@pashakdescilly7517 like saying 1 crisp packet or plastic bag on the floor wont end up in the sea killing animals when it does do exactly that.. Wasteful crap attitude youve got! How you know for sure regarding the hole oh great wise one???

  • @razelvelasco6504
    @razelvelasco6504 3 роки тому

    godzilla, ghidora, kong, muto, methusellah, behemoth,mothra, and other titans are awakening,,, so be ready,

  • @johnny5stickswilliams696
    @johnny5stickswilliams696 3 роки тому

    Ten seconds in advance warning? It’s never enough and what you are doing is commendable but a waste of time. Especially in NZ

    • @davidarundel6187
      @davidarundel6187 3 роки тому +1

      It's why New Zealand, is often referred to as "The Shaky Isles".

    • @rianmsin
      @rianmsin 3 роки тому +4

      It is definitely not a waste of time

    • @DavidOfWhitehills
      @DavidOfWhitehills 3 роки тому +4

      A few tens of seconds was what he said. Enough to run outside.

  • @AboveInShadow
    @AboveInShadow 7 років тому

    And the 7.8 was on the other side of the island..lol
    There's no such thing as earthquake cycles, the pressure from the south west pacific transfers trough the entire planet (plates, super fractures and faults).

    • @matthewtetley7048
      @matthewtetley7048 4 роки тому +2

      @Martin Turner doubt it. Earth's crust is a massive puzzle with pieces moving. It makes sense when energy is released things adjust accordingly even if small amounts.

  • @mataarikimataariki3665
    @mataarikimataariki3665 4 роки тому

    The ones causing the problems

  • @fabiandavey5846
    @fabiandavey5846 3 роки тому +2

    They dont care about anyone, but what they can get out of drilling for oil gas and not caring for the land they distroy or for profit.

    • @davidarundel6187
      @davidarundel6187 3 роки тому +1

      Stop putting misinformation about & get your facts straight.
      Your comment is like that of an ignorant, presumptuous TROLL.