Alpine Fault study shows new evidence for regular magnitude 8 earthquakes
Wednesday, July 25, 2012 - 16:00
in Earth & Climate
A new study published in the prestigious journal Science, co-authored by University of Nevada, Reno's Glenn Biasi and colleagues at GNS Science in New Zealand, finds that very large earthquakes have been occurring relatively regularly on the Alpine Fault along the southwest coastline of New Zealand for at least 8,000 years.