New Zealand's Alpine Fault to Produce a Massive Earthquake—so Scientists Drilled a Big Hole Into It. Published May 18, 2017 at 6:26 AM EDT Updated May 25, 2017 at 10:16 AM EDT.

The origin of the Alpine fault is located in the transition area between Fiordland and the Southern Alps on the South Island of New Zealand near Milford Sound. Here, the Australian plate meets the ...

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.

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.

How New Zealand responds in the week following a large Alpine Fault earthquake is mapped out in a scenario developed by Caroline, the AF8 group, multiple agencies and governments.

Scientists have predicted that the movement within the country's Alpine Fault which stretches 850km across the South Island could lead to a massive earthquake within the next 50 years.

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 years ...

Sampling of the active alpine fault in New Zealand reveals extreme hydrothermal conditions. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 10, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 08 / 170830094302.htm ...

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 ...

Seismic forces building up. The Alpine Fault is one of the world’s major plate boundaries and New Zealand’s most hazardous earthquake-generating fault. It runs for 650 kilometres along the spine of ...

On New Zealand's South Island, during the next earthquake, land on either side of the Alpine Fault will probably jump about 26 feet horizontally and 13 feet vertically, if the fault behaves as in ...