On Wednesday the 5TH of august we talked to a geologist named Hamish Campbell.The first thing we did was talk about were the earth quake hit.On July the 16Th at 9.15 pm an earthquake hit the south island in fiordland.It was 7.6 on the Richter scale that's the biggest earthquake in 80 years “WOW THAT'S HUGE”.
Did you know that 80 years ago an earth quake hit china in Tangshan it only lasted for 15 seconds but killed 242,000 people and 170,000 of them were injured. Earth quakes could go up to 20,000 km per hour that's probably the speed of light.
In new Zealand there are two types of plates the pacific plates and the Australia plates.When the plates crash into earth other that causes an earth quake. so when these plates crashed it went 30 degrees down.
Did you know that 80 years ago an earth quake hit china in Tangshan it only lasted for 15 seconds but killed 242,000 people and 170,000 of them were injured. Earth quakes could go up to 20,000 km per hour that's probably the speed of light.
In new Zealand there are two types of plates the pacific plates and the Australia plates.When the plates crash into earth other that causes an earth quake. so when these plates crashed it went 30 degrees down.
