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The 1929 Murchison earthquake and 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake led to the development of stricter building codes in New Zealand from 1935. [ 3 ] Quite early on, European settlers were faced with the reality of earthquakes in their new home.
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 ]
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...