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Living on shaky ground: The science and story behind New Zealand's earthquakes. Auckland: Random House (New Zealand). ISBN 978-1-77553-688-8. Michael Upchurch (2021). "He Iwi Rū | Quake Nation: effective interactive data visualisation in the museum". Tuhinga: Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. 32. Te Papa: 135– 151.
In the period 1971–75, Ivory Glacier receded 30 m (98 ft) from the glacial terminus, and about 26% of the surface area of the glacier was lost over the same period. Since 1980 numerous small glacial lakes were created behind the new terminal moraines of several of these glaciers. Glaciers such as Classen, Godley and Douglas now all have new ...
GeoNet also forecasts earthquake aftershocks for major earthquakes, such as the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake. [3] The GeoNet app sends notifications about natural hazards to its users. An example of this is the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake, where the app had sent a total of over 109 million notifications within two days. [ 4 ]
Franz Josef Glacier, as seen in 2011 New Zealand contains approximately 2900 glaciers over 1 hectare (2.5 acres) in size, almost all of them along the Southern Alps, the main divide of the South Island. This is down from around 3100 glaciers recorded in the late 1970s, due to ongoing changes to the Earth's climate. Roughly one-sixth of New Zealand's glaciers are over 10 hectares (25 acres) in ...
The largest earthquake in New Zealand was an M8.2 event in the Wairarapa, in 1855, [35] and the most deaths (261) occurred in a M7.8 earthquake in Hawkes Bay in 1931. Widespread property damage was caused by the 2010 Canterbury earthquake , which measured 7.1; The M6.3 aftershock of 22 February 2011 ( 2011 Canterbury earthquake ) resulted in ...
A Continent on the Move: New Zealand Geoscience Revealed. Geoscience Society of New Zealand. ISBN 9781877480478. Robinson, R (2003). "Potential earthquake triggering in a complex fault network: the northern South Island, New Zealand". Geophysical Journal International. 159 (2): 734– 748. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246x.2004.02446.x.
At 23.5 kilometres (14.6 mi) in length, Tasman Glacier is still New Zealand's longest glacier, despite shrinking considerably from the 1990s onwards. [1] [3] [4] It is as much as 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) wide and 600 metres (2,000 ft) thick, and lies entirely within the borders of Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park. The glacier covers an area of ...
The Dart Glacier is an approximately six-kilometre-long (3.7 mi) glacier located in Mount Aspiring National Park, in the upper reaches of Otago, New Zealand. [1] The glacier is the primary source of the Dart River / Te Awa Whakatipu, one of the main inflows of the nearby Lake Wakatipu before its water eventually joins the network of the Clutha River / Mata-Au some 80 kilometres (50 mi) to the ...