Скачать или смотреть The Mega Quake Potential for New Zealand. Are We overdue? The Hikurangi Subduction Zone.

The Hikurangi subduction zone is where the Pacific tectonic plate subducts - or dives underneath - the Australian tectonic plate.
It is capable of unleashing "mega-thrust" earthquakes and tsunamis, the like of which New Zealand has never experienced in modern times.

Now, scientists have revealed how our largest fault - the sprawling Hikurangi Subduction Zone - moves.

A major study, published this morning, sheds fresh light on the mysterious processes behind silent "slow-slip" earthquakes now understood to be massively influential along the vast boundary.

On a map, this system appears as a long line curving from waters well north of the East Cape to the northeastern South Island, beneath which the Pacific plate dives - or subducts - beneath the Australian plate.

The constant mashing together of these two vast chunks of the planet's crust produces an enormous amount of pent-up energy that must be somehow released.

The "mega-thrust" subduction zone earthquakes behind the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami - and the catastrophic Tōhoku disaster in Japan seven years later - show how, in extremely rare cases, this can happen in the worst possible way.
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