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PAGE 18 BAY HARBOUR Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz Wednesday December 2 2020 STOCK UP FOR CHRISTMAS Oamaru Jersey Bennes 1kg Prepack Product of New Zealand Pams Fresh Strawberries 250g Prepack Product of New Zealand $ 5 49 pk $ 2 99 pk Cadbury Favourites 365g Or Roses 225g $ 5 99 ea Pams Fresh Blueberries 125g For Baby Perlas Potatoes 700g Prepacks Product of New Zealand Apricots or Nectarines Loose Product of New Zealand $ 3 79 pk $ 7 49 kg Snacka Changi Chips 150g $ 3 49 ea www.foursquare.co.nz facebook.com/FourSquareNZ Specials available South Island only from Monday 30th November until STAFFORD Sunday STREET 13th December 2020 or while stocks last. Wine and beer available at stores with an off licence. Wine and beer purchases restricted to persons aged 18 years old and over. Newly-developed methods of extracting information • From page 16 “By analysing these rupture scenarios mathematically, you can calculate the ground shaking in different places – but you can realistically only do that for a limited range of scenarios because simulating the propagation of seismic waves through complex geological structures is a very large computational task.” The key to evaluating a broader range of earthquake rupture scenarios could lie in newly-developed methods of extracting information from background seismic noise – or what Townend called the Earth’s “hum”. “Much of what we record with seismometers is noise generated by ocean waves,” he said. “It looks pretty random but embedded in the incoherence are useful signals that tell us how seismic waves propagate between different parts of the Alpine Fault and, say, locations in Christchurch or Nelson or wherever you like.” Techniques for extracting those signals from the noise recordings have been developed by members of the team and applied successfully to faults in PEOPLE ARE being invited to play an interactive online game that will test their knowledge of what items belong in the red, yellow and green wheelie bins. The game, which people can play on their smartphones and online has been developed by city council staff and is the latest tool in the ongoing campaign to help people bin good. The game requires players to drag selected items into either the red, green or yellow bin.If they put the item in the right bin, they earn points. If they put the item in the wrong bin, the bin shakes and they get an X on the scoreboard. The correct bin will light up. The items used in the game were selected because they are ones that people often get confused about and put in the wrong bin. Said council resource recovery manager Ross Trotter. “The success of our kerbside rubbish and recycling service depends on people putting the right California and Japan. The novelty of this approach is that calculating how different patterns of slip on the fault affected ground shaking at locations of interest throughout the South Island and southern North Island could be done without having to simulate the entire wave propagation process. Townend said the approach meant they could efficiently and accurately simulate millions of different earthquakes. “This enables us to compute realistic ground shaking in population centres and at other vulnerable locations in stuff in the right bin. This new game is a fun, interactive way of teaching people about what bin they should use for different items. “The contents of the green wheelie bin get processed and turned into compost. That cannot happen if there is too much non-organic material in the bin. Likewise, the contents of the yellow wheelie bin cannot be recycled if non-recyclable items are included. “Our goal is to minimise the amount of waste going to landfill so that’s why we need people to put the right stuff in the right bin. response to many more earthquake rupture scenarios than can be practicably studied using conventional approaches,” Townend said. “This means that we can investigate a far more comprehensive range of scenarios that take into account the latest information we have about the fault’s current state, and obtain realistic probabilistic estimates of the shaking that will occur in inevitable future large Alpine Fault earthquakes.” The new study is being supported with a $960,000 grant from the Marsden Fund. – NZ Herald Game to test your bin waste knowledge “If you are confused about what goes in each of the bins, give the game a try. I also recommend that you use our updated wheelie bin app. It has a great search function which you can use if you are uncertain about which bin a particular items belongs in. All you have to do is enter the name of the item you want to dispose of and it will tell you which bin to put it in.’’ •Play the game at ccc.govt.nz/ bingoodgameor atsmartview.ccc.govt. nz.
Wednesday December 2 2020 Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz BAY HARBOUR PAGE 19 THIS SATURDAY 10am - 12 noon FREE fun for all FACE PAINTERS | BOUNCY CASTLE | ROVING MAGICIAN Santa with his elves & fairies arrive on custom trikes, led by a police car & fire engine Santa will leave Bromley Park about 9:50am make his way down Buckleys Rd, into Linwood Ave and into Eastgate carpark, arriving approximately 10am www.eastgate.co.nz
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