Plate motion on shallow subduction megathrusts, like the Hikurangi Trench east of New Zealand’s North Island, occurs all over the world. Researchers examined the diverse tectonic slip modes ...

Marcia Bjornerud reports on the magnitude-7.8 earthquake that struck New Zealand on November 14, 2016, and what it says about the country’s geology.

Second, the transition from the Kermadec Trench to the Hikurangi Margin, where the subducted oceanic crust is considerably thicker, could create the local conditions responsible for the unusual ...

More information: L. M. Wallace et al. Slow slip near the trench at the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand, Science (2016). DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf2349 Journal information: Science ...

Despite the Hikurangi Trench's potential, he said very little was known about the underwater valley, where the Professor Furlong, of Pennsylvania State University, said the worst-case scenario for ...

The Hikurangi Trench, or subduction zone, lies less than 100km off the east coast of the North Island and runs south to offshore off Kaikoura.

Wellington had the highest annual cost in the year to September, at $4467 on average compared to $2014 in Auckland. Contents insurance was also the most expensive in Wellington and least expensive ...

Scientists investigating North Canterbury's Kekerengu Fault received a graphic example of its destructive power when a trench they had dug was ripped in half during the magnitude-7.8 Kaikoura ...

This trench could trigger 9.0 magnitude earthquakes and tsunamis that will reach the western coast of the islands in just seven minutes, geologists warn.. Ursula Cochran, from science firm GNS ...

Read the STINGS blog here. Read the research report in EOS here. R/V Roger Revelle will embark on an ambitious research mission sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation to study the physical ...