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Ents, orcs and hobbits may have trod upon New Zealand soils, but beneath the Southern Island lies a giant earthquake fault that may help seismologists understand how the Earth moves and bends, ...

The Alpine Fault is a geological fault that runs almost the entire length of New Zealand's South Island (c. 480 km) and forms the boundary between the Pacific Plate and the Indo-Australian Plate. The ...

Aotearoa New Zealand experiences frequent earthquakes, including destructive ones such as those that struck Christchurch in 2010 and 2011, and near Kaikōura in 2018. In the South Island, the largest ...

Osaka, Japan - A recent study published in Nature has demonstrated unusual heat generation and fluid movement in the Alpine Fault of New Zealand that has implications for understanding earthquakes in ...

Unexpected fault behavior: The Myanmar quake ruptured multiple sections of a seemingly simple fault, defying expectations and prompting new scientific questions. Global risk relevance: Insights may ...

An international research team has identified significant pore fluid pressures and temperatures at relatively shallow depths in the active alpine fault of New Zealand, which play an important role in ...