Re:Asteroid crater 520km in diameter buried deep in southeas...
by hindsightbias on Thursday August 17, 2023 @02:10PM
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So New Zealand might not be the best place to bug out to if Australia is a meteor magnet.
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Re:Asteroid crater 520km in diameter buried deep in southeas...
by eesmith on Thursday August 17, 2023 @04:44PM
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Not that meteor magnets exist, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_impact_craters_on_Eart... says there are more known impact craters in Europe than Australia.
Re:Asteroid crater 520km in diameter buried deep in southeas...
by lostlogin on Thursday August 17, 2023 @07:36PM
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We’re a terrible choice for avoiding natural disasters. There is a 75% chance of the Alpine Fault between The Pacific Plate and the Indo-Australian Plate rupturing in the next 50 years and they tend to be earthquakes of magnitude 8+.
On average it ruptures every 291 years (+/- 23), and the last one was in 1717.
Re:Asteroid crater 520km in diameter buried deep in southeas...
by shirro on Thursday August 17, 2023 @10:22PM
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New Zealand like Japan, Indonesia and other places around the pacific ring of fire is very geologically active.
I have only barely felt one earthquake living in Australia in half a century and it was almost imperceptible. I expect the low geological activity is one of the reasons evidence of meteor impacts is well preserved in Australia.
Re:Asteroid crater 520km in diameter buried deep in southeas...
by DonHopkins on Friday August 18, 2023 @03:49AM
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The theory is that visitor centers attract meteors, but what is not understood is why the meteors never actually hit them directly, and why so many meteors land in craters.
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/fgztcd/look_how_clos...