It extends from Fiordland to the Marlborough Fault system where it splits into several separate faults. If the South Island is cut along the Alpine Fault and the two parts are moved relative to ...

"One of the real challenges with the Alpine Fault -- because it is so ... slip from a rupture along the nearby Marlborough Fault System. Langridge and colleagues said that there isn't enough ...

In this new open-access study published in Lithosphere on 4 Feb., Virginia Toy and colleagues document fault rocks surrounding New Zealand's active Alpine ... the San Andreas system has changed ...

"By installing dense seismic networks above these fault boundaries ... route of northward propagating Alpine Fault earthquakes onto the Marlborough Fault system. "We are currently building ...

Jesse Kearse receives funding from the Royal Society Te Apārangi. Nicolas Barth receives funding from the Royal Society Te Apārangi. One of the world’s most anticipated earthquakes is the next ...

The chances of New Zealand’s Alpine Fault rupturing in a damaging earthquake in the next 50 years are much higher than previously thought, according to our research, published today. The 850km ...

It is part of the Marlborough fault system. Another duty seismologist John Ristau said this morning he did not know for certain the impact on the Alpine Fault. "However, since this earthquake is ...

The multi-national Alpine Fault drilling project has moved to a new phase with a new drilling rig positioned over the borehole to take the probe to its target depth of 1.3km In the initial part of ...

Rainwater and snowmelt help fuel intense earthquakes along a New Zealand tectonic fault, new research suggests. Tracing the source of water flowing through New Zealand’s Alpine Fault shows that ...

A cluster of earthquakes near the Alpine Fault - that led GeoNet to issue a duck, cover and hold reminder tweet - has tailed off but it's too early to say whether it's over. The two main ...