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New Zealand Active Fault database The Greendale Fault is an active seismic fault situated in the Canterbury Plains in New Zealand 's South Island . The fault was previously unknown to geologists until 4 September 2010, as physical traces of the fault had been buried by gravel (alluvial deposits) during the last glaciation period.
South of New Zealand: 7.1 [88] 7.0: 12 km: 46.57°S: 165.08°E: Reportedly felt as far north as Hamilton. 24 December 2004: Macquarie Ridge: South of New Zealand: 8.1 [89] 35 km: 49.31°S: 161.35°E: 2004 Tasman Sea earthquake: 14 March 2005: W of New Zealand: Btw. Taranaki & Tasman: 6.4: 154 km: 40.17°S: 173.63°E: Felt strongly throughout ...
The Helheim Glacier in Greenland is being monitored to study glacial earthquakes. A study done in the early 2000s suggests the number of glacial earthquakes are rising. Using data from January 1993 to October 2005, it was found that more earthquakes were identified each year since 2002 and in 2005, twice as many earthquakes were detected than ...
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck New Zealand, just one day after a devastating cyclone forced a state of emergency across much of the country.. The quake occurred under the Cook Strait ...
Haast, New Zealand and Franz Josef Glacier, Westland District West Coast Region On 9 November, Mayor of Westland Helen Lash declares a state of emergency in southern Westland after the region experienced 375 mm of rain in the past 24 hours. [ 89 ]
GeoNet was founded in 2001 by GNS Science, the Earthquake Commission and Land Information New Zealand. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] [ 4 ] GeoNet was "relatively [obscure]" until the 2010 and 2011 Christchurch earthquakes occurred, when people started paying attention to the monitoring system. [ 5 ]
The group was underwater when a 7.2 magnitude earthquake and string of aftershocks shook the country, the videographer said. Watch scuba divers grab onto reef as swarm of underwater earthquakes ...
The 2016 Kaikōura earthquake was a M w 7.8 earthquake in the South Island of New Zealand that occurred two minutes after midnight on 14 November 2016 NZDT (11:02 on 13 November UTC). [2] Ruptures occurred on multiple faults and the earthquake has been described as the "most complex earthquake ever studied". [ 8 ]