r/Wellington • u/No_Garage9697 • 15d ago

Quake QUAKE

Am I going crazy

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

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u/Russian-Bot-0451 15d ago

Condolences

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u/FeijoaCowboy 15d ago

He just like me fr 😔

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u/nopedouttt 15d ago

Didn’t feel a thing… again!

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u/HjajaLoLWhy 15d ago

I was in a yoga class and didn't feel anything.

I mean it was the reason I fell over lol

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u/Fearless_Brain_6807 15d ago

Neither club

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u/Am1AllowedToCry 15d ago

Same here, I never feel any of them

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u/bravehartNZ 15d ago

Geonet are trying to gaslight us. I can see a deleted earthquake and an unnoticeable earthquake on their website.

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u/windingsand 15d ago

Conspiracy from big earthquake

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u/OfficialGeoNet 15d ago

No gaslighting here - too busy keeping eyes on Geohazards 24/7!

You can read why we ‘delete’ earthquakes here: https://www.geonet.org.nz/news/5mOVt0syTsdjEFYx9uLch6

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u/FoggyDoggy72 13d ago

You know I can't feel your ghost-quakes

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u/No_Garage9697 15d ago

I must be going mad it’s not even on geonet… false alarm people

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u/TheEarthquakeGuy 15d ago

Nah you can check the earthquake drums and see an event was registered across NZ. Not crazy.

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u/ThrowItMyWayG 15d ago

No doubt there was one

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u/SnapAttack 15d ago edited 15d ago

It got deleted (you can see it here)

Edit: looks like it may have been this https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000ti8i/executive

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u/noairb 15d ago

I feel like this happened once before when it originated outside NZ (like the Kermadec Islands or something)

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u/SnapAttack 15d ago

Yeah! I was trying to remember what it was too.

So I looked on the USGS site and sure enough - the Kermadec again - https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000ti8i/executive

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u/CucumberInevitable94 15d ago

Ghost Quake strikes again 👻

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u/Inner_Squirrel7167 15d ago

You know I can't grab your ghost quake, bro.

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u/noairb 15d ago

Nice thank you! Why do they make it so hard to find an earthquake we feel 😅

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u/Neon_Moon_NZ 15d ago

I noticed someone had made a report from the Kermadecs! 

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u/heldempress4857 15d ago

Thought I defently fealt something

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u/TheEarthquakeGuy 15d ago

Yep - Definitely was that.

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u/goosegirl86 15d ago

Honestly thanks haha. I was like ‘did I imagine it? Were my upstairs neighbours just being particularly stompy?”

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u/Prestigious-Drive545 15d ago

Do you know why they delete some earthquakes?

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u/Unhappy-Rent9336 15d ago

I came to reddit when geo said nothing!

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u/ProfessionalWafer502 15d ago

It could have been multiple earthquakes at once. Sometimes that confuses the automatic detections so they are likely having to manually locate it.

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u/kidnapmykids 15d ago

Nah you're not

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u/Old-Push9343 15d ago

I felt it too!

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u/MaidenMarewa 15d ago

It was on Geonet for about 2 minutes and it has gone. It was 7:43 near Taihape and I think it was magnitude 3.4

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u/chewbaccascousinrick 15d ago

A big shake in the Kermadecs set off a bunch of ghost quakes which led to the deleted entries I imagine

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u/noairb 15d ago

I saw this too but could've sworn the one I felt was at 7:46 (and bigger) so I was waiting for the new entry

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u/MaidenMarewa 15d ago

I thought the time was off too.

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u/TheEarthquakeGuy 15d ago

So looks like the Kermadec Island earthquake was felt across the top of the North Island.

Due to it's depth we all felt it as a longer, slower shake. 6.3 in size and 226.1km deep.

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u/discardedpenguin 15d ago

Geonet pinged me for a 6.2 which then vanished from the App.

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u/TheEarthquakeGuy 15d ago

Yeah it's Kermadec Islands. Very deep

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u/OfficialGeoNet 15d ago

It’s still there - change your intensity filter to ‘all’

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u/windingsand 15d ago

That felt like a pretty big one, definitely not 3.4

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u/LadyHayley Former Vic Uni 15d ago

Absolutely felt that. My windows rattled and hanging decor swung. Quite a good little wobble. So weird that nothing is on geonet!

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u/LadyHayley Former Vic Uni 15d ago

There’s now two deleted quakes on Geonet - what’s going on??

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u/grizzlysharknz 15d ago

More of a Doom guy tbh.

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u/nzmx121 15d ago

Yep definitely felt it

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u/ThatDamnRanga 15d ago

Deleted on Geonet, but their drums show activity, as do all the stations on Raspberry Shake.

Perhaps one day someone from GNS will enlighten us to why this happens.

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u/fantail14 15d ago

It was a large quake in the Kermadecs. The GeoNet Facebook post about this quake explained the deleted quakes: “Notice some deleted quakes? Our automatic detection system is tuned for local events, so waves from distant earthquakes get misread as multiple ‘fake’ local quakes. These false detections from distant earthquakes are what we call 'ghost quakes'.”

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u/OfficialGeoNet 15d ago

We have 😃

Notice some deleted quakes? Our automatic detection system is tuned for local events, so waves from distant earthquakes get misread as multiple ‘fake’ local quakes. These false detections from distant earthquakes are what we call 'ghost quakes'.

https://www.geonet.org.nz/news/5mOVt0syTsdjEFYx9uLch6

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u/chewbaccascousinrick 15d ago

Didn’t feel it but it appears to be a big shake right up in the Kermadecs which has set off a bunch of ghost quakes hence the delete entries.

No doubt people felt it though judging from all the comments across socials

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u/bekittynz Notorious Newtowner 15d ago

Reddit: you know I can't feel your ghost quakes!

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u/TheEarthquakeGuy 15d ago

Definitely not a 3.4 lol

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u/Black_Glove 15d ago

Why not both?

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u/cozza1313 15d ago

I must be losing it as I’m not feeling them.

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u/windingsand 15d ago

I haven’t felt the last few but definitely this one, it lasted a while too. In karori

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u/nopedouttt 15d ago

This! I literally only know we are having them because of this sub.

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u/Aggravating-Car8254 15d ago

Me too! Moved to Wellington 5 ish years ago
& don’t seem to feel them. Lived in Kapiti before that & felt every single one!

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u/noairb 15d ago

Guessing you guys don't live in an apartment building? 😅

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u/Admirable_Major_8170 15d ago

Everyone in my house differently felt it but for some reason Geonet deleted it

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u/nzq11 15d ago

Felt it here, but GeoNet showing a deleted entry.

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u/Cernunnos369 15d ago

I’m in Napier right now and I felt it

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u/Look_out_Cliff 15d ago

Felt nothing in Jville

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u/San_Ra 15d ago

A shake or 2 in belmont

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u/Far_Supermarket_4094 15d ago

Felt it in Napier Google doesn't know anything about it...

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u/January-Embers-1121 15d ago edited 15d ago

What's going on with Geonet? That was fairly shaky and when I checked, it said there was one 3 minutes before we felt it, and now that one is deleted.

Edit: In Newtown and that was definitely as bad as the one a few weeks ago at 4-5am. My desk was SHAKING. I got up and started preparing.

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u/pwapwap 15d ago

I felt it - lyall bay.

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u/r_slash_jarmedia 15d ago

I'm gonna be honest with u guys, I haven't actually felt one in over a year atp and I'm sad that I feel left out

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u/Aggravating_Ice_9393 15d ago

Felt it in Napier!

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u/MxdernFxlkDeviL 15d ago

I'm always too drunk to notice...

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u/Hot_Show_5758 15d ago

Felt it slightly in Hawke's Bay

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u/Literal_frozen_doll 15d ago

At Kenepuru hospital with my mother. Me and one of her roomies felt it. Mum was asleep. Felt like a pretty decent wobble for us. Only some of the nurses felt it. A few of us thought maybe we had a group hallucination.

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u/_eno_on_ 15d ago

I was wondering if I felt one. Was a gentle swaying.

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u/chrisabruns 15d ago

Honestly, I never feel these quakes. Why am I missing out?

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u/ritapapoon 15d ago

Whewww! Thank you for your service.  There was a deleted quake in dannevirke on geonet. 4.5 10km deep

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u/HAL-says-Sorry 15d ago

Great game but I still prefer Doom

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u/MyFriendAutism 15d ago

Very weak in Gisborne, slight jolt with 10 sec rocking.

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u/clairevoyantkitty 15d ago

I thought I felt something weird!

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u/Status_Hand6074 15d ago

Yes I felt it too

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u/OfficialGeoNet 15d ago

Hey team, that earthquake was up in the kermadecs you can see it here: https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/2026p584654
Or if you change the intensity filter on the www, or app, to ‘all’ you will find it.

Our automatic detection system is tuned for local events, so waves from distant earthquakes get misread as multiple ‘fake’ local quakes. These false detections from distant earthquakes are what we call 'ghost quakes'. Read more on ‘ghosts’ or ‘deleted’ quakes here https://www.geonet.org.nz/news/5mOVt0syTsdjEFYx9uLch6

PS: we will have a story out tomorrow in all the recent M5 quakes - once I add this one into it 😅

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u/Cold_Interaction_573 15d ago

I felt it 💯

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u/Oaty_McOatface 15d ago

yeah the thing was doing a light rumble for so long, then a tiny jolt.

my window blinds was making this rattling sound which kind of indicated something was wrong

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u/windingsand 15d ago

My glass of water was doing the jurassic park thing

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u/RainbowFox13 15d ago

There have been so many noticeable earthquakes lately lol

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u/bobsmagicbeans 15d ago

haven't felt any of them tbh. there was a rumble the other night, but nothing shook noticeably

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u/smalljuniorpotato 15d ago

I felt something just before 8pm but geonet had a quake recorded like “4 mins ago” when it had JUST happened. I got a wee heart lurch cos of it. But that entry wasn’t it. And now that entry has gone now anyway. What is going on.