Read the original article. An international team that drilled almost a kilometre deep (0.6 miles) into New Zealand's Alpine Fault, which is expected to rupture in a major earthquake in the next ...

New evidence of a 19th century earthquake on New Zealand's Alpine fault suggests that in at least one portion of the fault, smaller earthquakes may occur in between such large rupture events.

Pressure is building along one of the most active fault lines in the world and New Zealand is in a race to be ready. The Alpine Fault runs along the country's South Island and it has a history ...

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.

The Alpine Fault marks the boundary between the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates, where these two massive slabs of Earth's crust slide past each other. On New Zealand's South Island ...

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 ...

Now scientists have developed an 8,000-year history of major earthquakes at a site along the Alpine fault in New Zealand, that country's version of California's San Andreas fault. You may like ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Zealand's Alpine Fault is known for its regular timing of large earthquakes, which makes it a more straightforward choice ...

To understand how these ancient marks could help save lives, the research team turned to New Zealand’s Alpine Fault — a massive 850-kilometer-long fracture in the Earth’s crust that handles ...

According to Live Science, a hard-copy version of the collection was spearheaded in 1946 by geologist Harold Wellman (known for discovering the Alpine Fault in New Zealand) and others. The team ...