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Complex New Zealand Quake May Make Us Rethink Current Hazard Models (2 of 6)

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Complex New Zealand Quake May Make Us Rethink Current Hazard Models (2 of 6)

image: Aerial photo of surface rupture along the Kekerengu Fault. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 24, 2017 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by I.J. Hamling at GNS Science in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, and colleagues was titled, "Complex multifault rupture during the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaik?ura earthquake, New Zealand." view more 

Credit: Julian Thomson


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