Re: [iPad] OT to Jim

 

Jim,
I have an app called Route Buddy that has a nice topo of the peninsula.
Pete

--- In iPad@yahoogroups.com, Jim Saklad <jimdoc@...> wrote:
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> >>> Christchurch where I am gets cold in winter but we maybe get 2 decent snowfalls a year. Don't get that hot either. But no cyclones or tornados either
> >>
> >> Ah!
> >> But the earthquakes...
> >
> > Not any more Jim , touch wood. No more 4+ every hour , 5 km away and 5 km deep
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> Maybe not THIS week.
> The price of beautiful young mountains is having an active tectonic plate boundary. And ongoing earthquakes (millions of years worth).
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> Google Earth shows fascinating aspects of New Zealand, which is literally ON a plate boundary, even more so than is Japan -- the ocean plate boundary/subduction zone crosses the coast just 80 miles from Christchurch, traverses halfway across South Island, and *becomes* the Southern Alps.
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> And i would really like to learn more about the geology of that thumb-like peninsula just south of you....
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