Earthquake

15 November 2016

New Zealand's latest big earthquake has raised the prospect of a "worst case scenario" and a far more powerful shake.

The 7.5-magnitude tremor struck just after midnight on Monday near Hanmer and led to two deaths and widespread damage in the upper South Island.

Kevin McCue, an adjuct professor at Central Queensland University, says it was another major New Zealand earthquake not on the Alpine Fault system or any known major mapped faults in the region marking the Pacific and Australian Plate margin.

"The consequent stress loading on the Alpine fault may be bringing it closer to failure and a magnitude 8 earthquake on the Wellington Fault must be in the minds of NZ emergency management, the worst case scenario," he said.

Prof McCue, who is Australian Earthquake Engineering Society president and Australian Seismological Centre director, said positives were that there weren't many casualties and seemingly only one building collapse.

Water cycle

Saluselo and I were working on this water slideshow after reading an article about the water cycle in a Journal.   

My cress

We are learning about how plants grow and seed sprouts.
We grew cress and sprouted broad beans in class. We watched how water moves thought plants by putting celery in colourded water.

this is how cress changed over time.

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With Mrs Grant we created an infographic  showing what people share on their blogs.