1888 North Canterbury earthquake

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(southwest of Hanmer Springs )

• Hope Valley
• Christchurch

The North Canterbury earthquake of 1888 in the South Island of New Zealand was a large-scale quake, which differed by its three-week foreshock of the recent earthquake in New Zealand.

Geography

The Hope Fault, in which lay the 30km center of the quake, is part of the Marlborough Fault Zone in the South Island of New Zealand. The rejection begins landside north of Kaikoura and runs south-west to the south-eastern edge of the Seaward Kaikoura Range, happened Hanmer Springs and runs from just before the Alpine Fault.

The quake

On September 1, 1888 in the morning at 4:15 clock the North Canterbury region was 40 to 50 seconds of an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 rocked (other sources give 7.0-7.3 in ). The peculiarity of this quake was in its very long announcement, because before the main quake occurred three weeks noisy foreshocks that were heard by the inhabitants of the region as a distant rumble. On 30 August from 18:20 bis 22:00 clock clock tremors were then perceived in the Hope Valley, which increased in intensity. Watches in Canterbury and West Coast stopped and bells to beat. On the following day, 31 August, late at night, the quake started again and took to the main quake on September 1 in an unpleasant manner in intensity and volume too. The main quake was perceived by New Plymouth on the North Island to Invercargill at the southern tip of the South Island.

The earthquake was in the Hope Valley, the center of the earthquake, displaced laterally by the floor displacements fences up to 2.6 meters, houses of stone or clay seriously damaged and triggered numerous landslides. The Percival River in the Hanmer Plains was accompanied along side of cracks and the Otira Gorge, the abbekam the strongest vibrations in the West, four new sources were formed. Also liquefaction of the soil were partially observed.

The quake generated over long distance damage to buildings, as well as in the 100 km from Christchurch, where the upper 8 m long section of the spire was brought down, so that Christ Church for a time lost part of his landmark.