Posts Tagged ‘North Island’

Earthquake

Most people should know it by now ... This one's quite big, the quake happened around 23.25NZST, Geonet measured it as magnitude 5.9 , or Mw 5.4 according to USGS. just 10km south-west of Hastings.

Still have no news on any damages. The MMI is around 6, which may result some light damages but it is very unlikely to directly cause any injuries or death.

Preliminary details showed that the quake is felt across the lower part of North Island, from Taupo to Wellington. Not felt in Auckland.

At the moment one aftershock is recorded and I do expect at least another one or two around M 3.0. And I suspect the M 3.0 event recorded Monday morning is a foreshock.

That's all I can tell from the information avaialble, going back to sleep now ...

Life without Internet

Wonder how many people from North Island can get online now.

A problem within Vector's fibre network seems to be causing many people in North Island lost internet connectivity for about 7 hours+, started around 12:30pm today. As far as I understand, Country's second and third ISP Vodafone and Orcon are both affected, not so sure about Telecom.

The details are still quite sketchy, however, I suspect the outage is possibly due to our aging infrastructures failed to stand in the bad weather this week?

Seems to be OK now, at least for me.

This is a huge outage and I do expect some sort of explanation, report or compensations for this.