Now, scientists aim to get their clearest picture yet of the complex mechanics of our big-risk Hikurangi Subduction Zone – ...

The project is designed to give new insights into the earthquake and tsunami potential of the Hikurangi subduction zone, where the Pacific Plate is being thrust under (subducted) beneath the eastern ...

where a series of sub-parallel strike-slip faults mark the transition from the Alpine fault to the Hikurangi subduction zone. They used the magnetotelluric method 5 to measure the electrical ...

The general location of the offshore part of the Hikurangi subduction zone. While The Front Page ... be prepared for the potential of a massive earthquake, even if there’s no way to know when ...

The seamount is located near New Zealand’s Hikurangi subduction zone ... found that seamount collisions with subduction zones might influence earthquake activity.

Pāpaku Seamount lies east of New Zealand’s North Island, on the Hikurangi subduction zone. In 2018 scientists at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics led the first ever 3D seismic ...