Clues left by the Alpine Fault’s last big quake reveal its direction ...
WEB3 days ago · One of the world’s most anticipated earthquakes is the next major surface rupture of the Alpine Fault in the South Island of New Zealand.. With a 75% chance of it happening within the next 50 ...
New Zealand's Alpine Fault Just Keeps Slipping
WEBJun 1, 2016 · To feel the earth move under your feet, visit New Zealand. Every year the sides of the island nation's Alpine Fault shift past one another about 30 millimeters—a blistering speed for strike-slip ...
Alpine Fault, Department of Geology | University of Otago
WEBThe Alpine Fault is the dominant structure defining the Australian-Pacific plate boundary in the South Island of New Zealand. It runs as a single structure for over 500 km between the Puysegur Trench in the south and the Marlborough Fault System in the northeast.
Harold Wellman and the Alpine Fault | New Zealand Geographic
WEBThe Alpine Fault quickly became accepted as a notable feature of the geology of New Zealand, and by 1948 was included on standard geological maps. [Chapter Break] After their groundbreaking paper on the Alpine Fault, Willett was posted to Invercargill and Wellman to another wartime project at d’Urville Island.
Discovering the Alpine Fault - ArcGIS StoryMaps
WEBThe Alpine Fault. The Alpine Fault, marked here by the yellow line, stretches nearly the entire length of Te Waipounamu, the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. Movement along this fault has uplifted the Southern Alps and helped shape the South Island landscape we know today. The red line on this map shows our plate boundary (see …
Alpine Fault - GNS Science | Te Pῡ Ao
WEBThe Alpine Fault is the visible "on-land" boundary of the colliding Pacific and Australian Plates and is the longest natural straight line on earth. The Alpine Fault is one of the largest sources of seismic, or earthquake, hazards in Aotearoa New Zealand. Historically, when this fault ruptures, it produces an earthquake of about magnitude 8.0.
Alpine Fault - Wikipedia
WEBThe Alpine Fault is a geological fault that runs almost the entire length of New Zealand's South Island, being about 600 km (370 mi). [ a ] long, and forms the boundary between the Pacific Plate and the Australian Plate . [ 4 ]
The Alpine Fault - LEARNZ
WEBThe West Coast. One major geographic feature of the South Island of New Zealand is the Southern Alps, a mountain range caused by tectonic uplift along the Alpine Fault. The Alpine Fault runs for about 600km up the spine of the South Island, and is one of the world’s major geological features. The Alpine Fault marks the boundary of the Pacific ...
Full article: Tercentenary of the 1717 AD Alpine Fault earthquake ...
WEBSep 9, 2018 · Nationally, the Alpine Fault has also played a significant role in the development of New Zealand geoscience and the careers of many geoscientists. Most famously, it was a key focus in Harold Wellman's (1909–1999) career who, along with Dick Willett, discovered the fault and its association with earthquakes (Nathan Citation 2011 ).
Rupture direction of paleoearthquakes on the Alpine Fault, New Zealand ...
WEB6 days ago · We observed and further exhumed curved slickenlines on fault planes associated with paleo-surface rupture of the Alpine Fault, New Zealand’s ∼30 mm/yr continental transform plate boundary. Dynamic rupture modeling indicates that the geometry of such curvature provides a record of past earthquake rupture directions. We focused …
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