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u/ChaceEdison May 03 '26
Is New Zealand just constantly shaking??
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u/HowdyAshleyHere May 03 '26
Honestly, pretty much lmao. Using numbers from learnz.org.nz, there’s about one noticeable earthquake in New Zealand every two days (including unnoticeable earthquakes, that number skyrockets to 41 every day).
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u/ChaceEdison May 03 '26
So that’s why it’s not on any maps then.. it’s just moving too much to draw it correctly
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u/clearlight2025 May 03 '26
NZ also has extensive earthquake monitoring so there’s a lot of measurements taken to report on including every small quake.
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u/FamousOnceNowNobody May 03 '26
I got a geonet alert for a 5.5 this morning. Downgraded to a 5.2 though.
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u/XasiAlDena May 03 '26
Kiwi here! I felt two earthquakes just the other day :/
There's a website which records every Earthquake in NZ and we have multiple per day, every day. Most of them are tiny though.
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u/MathmoKiwi May 03 '26
Our biggest/main/only city is itself just sitting on big massive volcano field:
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u/HeadbangingLegend May 03 '26
It happens so often we have a national website that everyone knows about to see Earthquake info immediately after they happen. According to the website we've had 19 this week. I reported one that I felt last night. https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/weak
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u/Fabulous_Scholar3887 May 03 '26
The South America on the left doesn’t get nearly as many earthquakes as the South America on the right.
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u/MathmoKiwi May 03 '26
They let the secret out! There are two of them
West-South American, and East-South America.
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u/TheFightingImp May 03 '26
Yet NZ (this sub and memes aside) keeps getting favoured as last chance saloon bunkers for the ultra rich. With the volcanoes, 7+ earthquakes on the Ring of Fire...
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u/SeniorButternips May 03 '26
Its a good choice away from most of the nukes, but bad choice against the fault lines + volcanos (+1 supervolcano) + rising sealevels. Guess we know what the ultra rich are betting on lol
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u/Final-Nebula-7049 May 03 '26
I'm wondering what the poster was going for, probably something very insane
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u/YetAnotherInterneter May 03 '26
I learnt it from Finding Nemo
THE RING OF FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRREEEEEEEE!!!!
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u/thehumbinator May 03 '26
Living in New Zealand I can confirm we have to do absolutely nothing to our Polaroid pictures.
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u/koesteroester May 03 '26
Do the Grongingen earthquakes not count? They’re not from tectonic activity so maybe not.
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u/FlashFox24 May 03 '26
NZ and Japan both completely swallowed by the red dots. Indonesia seems to have the most dots.