Good article on the recent New Zealand earthquake. A lot of good pictures and geological maps and diagrams. Click through to the full article. Here was my favorite picture of a bridge over a river.
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New Zealand earthquake rips a new fault line across the world
… moving one side of the earth 11ft to the right
The earthquake that devastated a city in New Zealand tore open a new 11ft faultine in the Earth’s surface.
The 7.1-magnitude quake which hit Christchurch, the country’s second-largest city, destroyed about 500 buildings and caused an estimated £930million of damage.
But hundreds of lives were saved by tough building rules, it was claimed. Only two injuries were reported.
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Roger Bates, whose dairy farm at Darfield was close to the quake’s epicentre 19 miles west of Christchurch, said the new faultline had ripped up the surface across his land.‘The whole dairy farm is like the sea now, with real soil waves right across the dairy farm.
‘We don’t have physical holes (but) where the fault goes through it’s been raised a metre or metre and a half.’
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