ONN's Meteorologist Harrison Hove is on his way to Antarctica.
Harrison applied for and received a grant from the National Science Foundation to travel to Antarctica to report on the several Ohioans doing research near the South Pole. Each day Hove will share his travels and projects that he and other Buckeyes are working on to ONN.
Here's the latest:
Just a couple hours after I wrote my last blog, we all felt a Christchurch earthquake.
I was sitting on the floor packing my luggage. I heard a loud boom and a felt a shake. The glass or what sounded like glass rattled.
You know when there is a big thunderstorm and your windows rattle in the summer? It sounded like that.
It was a very quick quake. It lasted about 5-10 seconds. I always assumed that it was a little longer than that. Once we walked outside our room to go to dinner about ten minutes later, people were still talking to it.
The people here have become almost immune to the minor shakes that have been going on for almost a year now. Once we arrived at dinner, we asked the bartender if it was indeed an earthquake. He told us he thinks it would register higher than a 4.0. This seemed a bit high to me.
He waited for the seismology update and came to our table and informed us it was a 4.6. He said it was deep and centered east of the city in the ocean so it was minor. He then showed us a website they use here that tracks all the seismic activity. There had been more than 10 earthquakes yesterday, but that was the only one we felt. It is so wild.
Christchurch is actually sitting on a fault line that researchers didn’t even know about until the big quake about 11 months ago.
These minor shakes continue to keep the city from rebuilding though. With the minor shakes continuing no one knows when “the big one” might strike again.
