On Wednesday the 5th of August at 9'am the extension group had a video conference with Hamish Campbell and also Diana-Grace. Hamish Campbell is a very famous Geologists in New Zealand. The reason for this conference is for us to learn about the Fiordland earthquake and more.
Hamish taught us a lot of interesting facts. There are a few that I remember. He told us that there are 2 kinds of plates called the "Pacific Plate " and " Australian Plate ". The earthquake was called Dusky Sound.
He explained to us how the earthquake happened. The 2 plates hit each other and pushed against the other one. It was meant to crash but instead the Pacific plate slid 5 meters under. The earthquake lasted for only 30 seconds.
He also told us about the earthquake that happened in 1976 in Tangshan, China. It only lasted for 15 seconds and was very huge. There was a big amount of people that had died during the earthquake. 242,000 people had died in a building.
Thanks to Diana-Grace and Hamish Campbell for sharing very interesting facts about the Fiordland earthquake and also thanks to Te Papa museum.
5 comments:
Great post Kezia. You introduce our video conference very well. Telling us about the purpose and content of the VC very clearly. You are good at writing in a clear and concise manner. I like your explanation of the plates colliding then one going under the other. Keep up the good blogging Kezia!
Mrs Tele'a
Very interesting indeed Kezia! It was great to read your post and find out some new and interesting information. Keep up the great work on your post Kezia.
Mrs Nua
Hi Kezia,I liked the way you explained how the 2 plates go. Your blog is very similar to mine.I wrote how the plates move and how deep they go too.
Well got to go now.
Bye
Destiney
Hi Kezia,
I really like your blog post about Hamish Campbell because you explained how the plates hit to each other, I didn't explain how they hit into each other which was rather silly of me because I should've.
Anyway I hope to see more of your writing because its really great!!!
Sela
Hi Kezia great writing about the video conference with Hamish Campbell and Diana Grace. Tells us a lot about the Fiordlen earthquake and the two plates. Cant wait to here another post from you.
From Bobbi-Grace
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