Web Designer & Developer Ahmed's Musings » tsunami http://www.ahmedalis.com/blog and more Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:47:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 NewZealand moves closer to Australia! http://www.ahmedalis.com/blog/news/new-zealand-moves-closer-to-australia/ http://www.ahmedalis.com/blog/news/new-zealand-moves-closer-to-australia/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:23:03 +0000 admin http://www.ahmedalis.com/blog/?p=842 Interesting bit of info here …

Last weeks 7.8 magnitude earthquake has actually physically moved the southern end of  NewZealand approx 12 inches closer to Australia and its eastern end approx 1 cm to west.

Pretty cool!

Huge as this earthquake was it caused only slight damage to buildings and property when it struck the remote southwest Fiordland region of the South Island last Thursday, creating a small tsunami with max wave of 1 meter.

New Zealand frequently suffers earthquakes because it marks the meeting point of the Australian and Pacific continental plates.

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