Source: GNS Science – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: Tapping into New Zealand’s sleeping giant – 04/05/2018
Stretching down the length of the North Island’s east coast lies a sleeping geological giant – the Hikurangi subduction zone. It is New Zealand’s largest and most active plate boundary, where the Pacific Plate subducts beneath the Australian Plate, giving rise to large earthquakes and tsunamis.
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