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January 23, 2005 8:48am by David Farrar

11 quakes now

There’s now been 11 quakes since Tuesday around Wellington.

Just letting off steam – yeah right!

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Antarctic Lemur

Small earthquakes are good… unless the stress released during that quake, or crustal movement caused by it, triggers a larger quake elsewhere in the fault zone.

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January 23, 2005 1:39pm
michael

Today is 150 years since the South Wairarapa Earthquake (approx Mag 8) that created mudflats that have since been reclaimed as Wellington’s CBD.
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January 23, 2005 3:28pm
Antarctic Lemur

I wonder what sort of legal claim shoreside property owners have over newly created land…
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January 23, 2005 7:00pm
Adolf Fiinkensein

AntLem, it’s not newly created, simply newly uplifted. Being erstwhile seabed, of course it will be claimed by The Bros.
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January 24, 2005 9:21am
Antarctic Lemur

Actually from the perspective of Regional Councils and Land Information NZ, and any other body which deals with laws referring to “coastline” or “seawater” etc, the land is in fact newly created.

I’m not sure what wording the foreshore legislation used, but if it was defined as starting a specific distance from a body of water or stream (e.g. up to and including 10m inland), then clearly there would be a large amount of land “created” if part of the Wellington region seabed uplifted above present sealevel. Streams and whatnot are not accurately surveyed by LINZ and change paths over small time periods anyway, and the Regional Councils deal with coastline, so i presume the Government must have used such relative terminology.

I unfortunately don’t have time to check gplegislation.govt.nz.

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January 24, 2005 2:38pm
Adolf Fiinkensen

AL, what of the reverse? Will land owners whose propoerty subsides and becomes seabed be compensated? Will the Iwi pay?
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January 24, 2005 3:34pm
Antarctic Lemur

Interesting point, and relevant to all private property owners rather than just Maori.

If the foreshore and seabed legislation refers to relative boundaries, then of course all subsiding land is effectively nationalised just after the earthquake or landslide… when i get some free time i will do the research. There must be substantial clauses excluding previously privately owned shoreline from the application of the bill.

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January 25, 2005 2:17pm

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