Wild Land

Away up in the bloody tower, Wild Land paced back and forth in its tiny cell, pausing to shake the bars occasionally in total frustration. Fortunately, this was just a bloody tower and not The Bloody Tower.

Far below the axe man hefted his shiny ucks (he had an accent like Gimli) and turned to me, “When do you want it done?” He’s an ‘Ohh Arrrr’ type. Minus the eyepatch, of course. You need two good eyes to be any good at this head-lopping lark otherwise you don’t achieve your Key Performance Indicators and miss out on the end-of-year bonus and profit-share.

You have to be careful when nattering to these executioner types. To them, head-count is a performance measure not a staff census and they take the whole thing rather seriously. When he claimed to have coached Gimli with his “And my Ucks!” line at the Council of Elrond I gauged that I was within his swingline and decided that an expression of marvel was in order.

Anyway, I digress. Poor old Wild Land was pacing its cell.

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After nearly five years of writing and 947 articles published, it is time to work on other things, so the Wild Land site has closed. It has been enjoyable work and the responses from readers have been appreciated.

The site set no specific aims at the outset except to entertain on the odd occasion, and inform the readers about natural hazards in the New Zealand area. I feel this has been achieved.

Wild Land was made possible by the generous support of the owdjim webmaster who has hosted and maintained the software environment and provided considerable guidance as issues arose.

Thankyou all for your support and interest.

A shallow, major earthquake struck the Mariana Islands this morning.

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A deep, major earthquake struck onshore Ecuador just before midnight last night.

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A strong earthquake has struck during the aftershock sequence following yesterday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake in the New Hebrides region of Vanuatu.

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A major earthquake struck the New Hebrides region of Vanuatu this evening.

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A major earthquake struck the New Britain region of Papua New Guinea this morning.

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A strong, shallow, undersea earthquake struck the northern Kermadec Islands yesterday afternoon.

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A light earthquake struck the southern Kermadec Islands this evening.

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A strong undersea earthquake struck midway between Samoa and Tonga this afternoon.

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Three major earthquakes have struck the Moro Gulf in the Philippines this morning.

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A strong undersea quake struck the Espiritu Santo area of Vanuatu this evening.

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Another strong earthquake struck the New Britain region of Papua New Guinea this morning.

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A strong earthquake struck the Fox Islands in the Aleutian chain early last night.

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Two strong undersea earthquakes struck the New Britain region of Papua New Guinea this morning.

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