Quake

Magnarc · Guru

Quake

Whenarewethere · Guru

Still remember the Newcastle earthquake, sitting at my desk in Manly Vale, Sydney northern beaches. My office chair went back & forth about 10cm. I looked up into the warehouse, everything was shaking.

First thought a truck hit the building but there was no sound. Thought that was a bit strange. We all walked out of the building & looked up & down the road, seeing everyone else doing the same thing.

Later found out the company I worked for, the aluminium pot lines at Kurri Kurrie lost power for about 2 hours. Was told after after about 8 hours the pot lines would go solid.

EJP · Senior Member

Same here, sitting on the dunny compenplating the world's problems and the house shook for about 30 seconds. By the time I realised it was an earthquake and that I should remove myself it was all over. No damage down our way, outer southeastern suburbs, but some building damage in Melbourne. Melbourne, don't you love it. Locked down, locked out, locked up, anarchy reigning, and now an earthquake. Maybe someone is trying to tell us something.

Craig1 · Guru

definitely dans fault

Plain Truth · Guru

Craig1 wrote:
definitely dans fault

I can't open that Craig.I assume it something like this

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Struth! I thought I had been transported back in time and was on the dance floor shake rattling and rolling.

I was sitting outside in front of the teepee feet up in the sun having a cuppa and it sounded like gale force winds heading right at me so looked up and actually saw the ground moving like a wave. I felt it too. I didn't have a lovely lady with me so I could say she moved the earth for me. Bugga!

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Plain Truth wrote:
Craig1 wrote:
definitely dans fault
I can't open that Craig.I assume it something like this

That wouldn't surprise me at all PT.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Craig1 wrote:
definitely dans fault

See the padlock will be unlocked at midnight for you mate.

We are on tender hooks around here as heaps of exposure sites now. Danny boy will have the lock in hand already I reckon.

Whenarewethere · Guru

EJP wrote:
Same here, sitting on the dunny compenplating the world's problems and the house shook for about 30 seconds..... No damage down our way...

Obviously a relief it wasn't the haemorrhoids!

fwdoz · Guru

We are on the Dan Andreas Fault

KevinJ · Senior Member

I was only a few kilometers from Newcastle on that day and felt nothing. Ok, I was a few kilometers EAST of Newcastle on that day participating in the Broken Bay to Coffs Harbour Yacht race so that may account for it. smile

Lozza56 · Member

got the earth quake in Buxton vic, where not far from Mansfield and Woods point being epi centre, house "rocknrolled" for good 48 seconds, the noise is what I can't get over, like a massive freight train going thru house, and yes I agree, Dan's fault

The Belmont Bear · Guru

A lot of similarites there whenarewethere our previous house was about 10km from the epicentre of the 1989 Newcastle earthquake and I was also sitting in my chair working on the computer. When the quake hit it jolted me so hard it felt like someone had run into the back of the chair, everything shook for around 30 seconds and I could hear things crashing and breaking around the house. We suffered $20K worth of damage including losing a brick chimney, a 40' TV mast, it cracked some brickwork and concrete paths etc.

At the time I also worked in the potlines at the Tomago Aluminium smelter and like with any outage we were concerned with not knowing how long the power would be off luckily it was back on long before any of our pots froze. Ironic that since I retired from full time work I have been employed on a number of projects in different parts of the world as a consultant restarting frozen potlines. It Kurri had frozen they may not have bothered restarting it at all as it was old technology and cost wise it probably wouldnt have been viable (the remaining smelters in Australia are probably reaching that position now) - the last potline we restarted in Oman cost the insurance company around US$500M.

BB

Whenarewethere · Guru

The original pot line of the 3 at Kurri Kurri was the most inefficient, but it produced the highest quality of aluminium.

Craig1 · Guru

Thanks for posting "Dan's doings "

We had noise, but people about 1km away had crockery shake and rattle. Very lucky people in Chapel St, they were where the bricks fell not long before hand.

Chief, how come you didnt have your phone ready to record the "wave ", could be handy for 5.30 or so Saturday evening after Storm stroll in.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Craig, if I was to start talking Storm the thread would be

Craig1 · Guru

Fire away Doug, at least it will be a good news story (fingers crossed). See they are renewing next years members for free, a great gesture to help overcome c.... effects

Craig1 · Guru

I just remembered this one Chief, you are probably lucky to be alone and not with Margaret