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 the region.

Reconciling an Early Nineteenth-Century Rupture of the Alpine Fault at a Section End, Toaroha River, Westland, New Zealand. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America , 2020; DOI: 10.1785 ...

Rupert Sutherland received funding for this project from the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program, the Marsden Fund of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and the Ministry of ...

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 Fault, which has very high probability of ...

New Zealand may have a total land area of just 27,000 square kilometres ... This area is still prone to earthquakes, most notably along the Alpine fault. Further away from these fault zones ...

New Zealand has a 30 percent chance ... "The population of the area likely to be severely affected by the future Alpine fault earthquake is about 40,000 to 50,000, although there are major tourist ...

The Alpine Fault is a geological fault that runs almost the entire length of New Zealand's South Island. YouTube / GNS Science It may be the largest earthquake in our lifetimes – and probably ...

The Alpine Fault on New Zealand’s South Island tends to beget a 8.0 magnitude earthquake approximately once every 300 years, Gizmodo reports. The last quake at the fault was in 1717 ...

whose specialist area is disaster risk and resilience, speaks on the impacts of an Alpine Fault quake. Source: Youtube / @EMSouthland New Zealand's big-risk Alpine Fault has a 75 per cent chance ...

Where it rains, it rumbles. 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 ...

The New Zealand-led team had drilled 240 metres ... on the Southern Alps as rain circulate and warm up next to the Alpine Fault," project co-leader Virginia Toy of the University of Otago ...

An international team has discovered extreme underground conditions at New Zealand’s Alpine Fault, which is due to rupture in a major earthquake in the next few decades. AN INTERNATIONAL TEAM that ...