That worked, the drums are updating on this thread overnight still.
You read the drums the opposite way you read a book, so bottom right hand corner to top left hand corner line by line, we will forget the scale.
The closest drums to CHCH are,
McQueens Valley (Closest)
Oxford
Rata Peaks
Lake Taylor
Waitaha Valley
Inchbonnie (Furthest)
Quads
The G force (Peak Ground Accelaration) that is recorded in well known earthquakes
PGA Mag Depth Fatalities Earthquake
| 2.2g | 6.3 | 5km | 166* | 2011 Christchurch earthquake |
| 1.7g | 6.7 | 19km | 57 | 1994 California earthquake |
| 1.26g | 7.1 | 10km | 0 | 2010 Canterbury earthquake |
| 0.8g | 6.8 | 16km | 6,434 | 1995 Kobe earthquake |
| 0.51g | 6.4 | 612 | 2005 Zarand earthquake | |
| 0.5g | 7.0 | 13km | 92,000 | 2010 Haiti earthquake |
The 1994 Northridge (California) Earthquake is the largest known PGA for urban areas in the USA.
Here is a Americans accound of the CHCH shakes, as he was part of a delegation in CHCH for confrences http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/243949/in-new-zealand-close-call-amid-the-deadly-chaos
Quads
Hi Quads
This article appeared on the BBC web site showing the quake's impact, from space.
MD
Found them on the Japanese site
http://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ALOS/en/img_up/dis_pal_nzleq_110225.htm
Quads
Hi Q
Good find
MD
The Quakes from sept 4th onwards look like costing 30 billion + to fix and rebuild.
"The two earthquakes will claim as much as 8 per cent of New Zealand's total GDP. Hurricane Katrina in the US came in at about 1 per cent of GDP, and the recent Queensland floods in Australia at 0.5 per cent.
The New Zealand quakes together would be the second most expensive natural disaster ever after Hurricane Ike, which struck the US coast in 2008 and cost $19.9bn"
The drums on page 4 of this thread are still updating.
And I found the G Force for the 2010 Chile 8.8 magnitude Earthquake, it's,
PGA Mag depth deaths
| 0.65g | 8.8 | 35 km | 521 | 2010 Chile earthquake |
It's been added to the Peak Ground Acceleration wiki page now
Quads
Japan received a Wooper of a shake (8.9 on the scale) with Tsumani, the International Airport has already re opened,
Quads
BBC news is reporting aftershocks of 7.4 in Japan. I watched the news film of the tsunami coming ashore and it was quite horrendous to see.
I can just hope that Earth will go sleeping for now a bit....
Did any of you read anything why Earth is so active in the last months? I unforutanetely did not see anything.
But it's so active that even by us, where only very very little quakes only happen in 1000 years...., there was a 4,7 earthquacke in last month.
90% + of the worlds Earthquakes happen around the "Ring of Fire" anyway, so it is nothing strange, who knows what happened around the Ring of Fire say 500 years ago, due to the civililations, technologies, global community etc. compared to today.
Todays Sendai Quake is only the 5th largest quake (Magnitude) recorded in History, it looks like the Tsumani has done more damage.
Quads
Here is a link to the BBC report on the quake/tsunami
Wave prediction map
Quads
It wasn't by far the earthquake that caused the damage, buildings that were not old or strengthened coped really well, as seen by all the video footage of people in the buildings, without really been shaken to bits, The Quake only had a Peak Ground Acceleration of 0.82 G Force.
It was the Tsumani that caused all the havoc and damage with it's power.
A Map from my PC that gets updated showing the yellow dots being the Foreshocks (oldest) and the Red dots being the latest
Quads
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-earthquake/4793410/Scientists-analyse-aftershocks
Quads
This article is really misleading, why.The guy did not have his "One for the History books" Prediction come true.Mr Ring predicted firstly that a 8.0 Earthquake would hit Christchurch on the 20th of March give or take 3 days.An 8.0 shake, that is bigger then the 7.1 in Sep or 6.3 in Mar. This got people so scared that people and families left Christchurch in fear, to places like Geraldine, Hanmer Springs, Timaru..................
An 8.0 would not be an aftershock either, if it's in the same sequence it would become the Mainshock and all previous shakes of 5,000 + back to the 7.1 would become foreshocks.Mr Ring then changed his story to it would happen anywhere in North Canterbury or Marlborough, and after that anywhere within 500km's of the Alpine Fault which would mean in a straight line as far North as Hamilton in the North Island.
On the 20th we had more than that aftershock and we are getting aftershocks near everyday, Just like I predict that the Japan region will get an aftershock today.Predicting this would be like predicting it will rain in India during the Monsoon season.
We have had 18 shakes 5.0 and above and 73 shakes 4.5 and above.
The fear he gave people in predicting another major earthquake that did in the and not happen is despicable on people who are already struggling with the after effects of 2 major Earthquakes (one an aftershock) and thousands of aftershocks where most have a shallow depth.
I can't get hold of the newspaper in the UK, but I wonder if they look into their story subjects,
The guy in the past belived the moon caused Aircraft to crash, CO's does not go into the air (atmosphere) and has a book out called Pawmistry (how to read your cats paws.
Quads
People are actually giving the guy credit for predicting a quake (inaccurately, at that) within the aftershock period of a major quake??? Life for charlatans is becoming way too easy. Anyway, I am sure the Mayans had this one predicted long before Ken Ring...... 
Yes the UK, and maybe USA media are,
Even though sciencists have quicky ruled him out, including mathaticians who worked out he is predicting an earthquake for 250+ days out of 365 days of the year.
I meant Feb 22 for the 6.3 shake not Mar as in my previous post
Quads
Bugger I wish I could figure out a script to run, that would stop the Earthquakes (Aftershocks).
Quads
At this rate even Norton will get Quake Brain being installed on my PC over here. Another good aftershock
Q
Last Night
What fun, SIGH
Quads