<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=526111" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>New Zealand’s Great Alpine Fault</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">earth mobile surface divided into tectonic plates<br>Alpine fault cross hair connects two subduction margins <br>New Zealand continent sits on plate boundaries</div><div style="margin:10px 0">where ocean floor descends into Earth's mantle<br>at this point surfaces of two plates making up <br>South Island alpine fault fatally pressure meets</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pacific Plate on easterly area of New Zealand <br>is moving westwards Australian Plate on opposing <br>western side of New Zealand moves eastwards</div><div style="margin:10px 0">plates sliding at a relative rate about 45mm per year</div><div style="margin:10px 0">plate boundaries mobile move at relative rates as plates <br>move against each other enormous pressure builds <br>up must be released through earth movement the result</div><div style="margin:10px 0">major quake along New Zealand’s Great Alpine Fault</div><div style="margin:10px 0">pressure continually building building now 294 years <br>since pressure last released a large earthquake in 1717 AD<br>Christchurch earthquakes now world famous babies</div><div style="margin:10px 0">are not expected overdue big one causing vast devastation</div><div style="margin:10px 0">next earthquake centered on Alpine Fault is expected<br>to begin in South Westland a magnitude 8+ event felt<br>throughout entire South Island as far away as Sydney</div><div style="margin:10px 0">just as terror struck Sendai area of Japan without warning<br>thus will next Great Alpine Fault earthquake strike<br>South Westland will occur with no recognizable warning? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=526111" data-title="New Zealand’s Great Alpine Fault de Terence George Craddock" data-description="earth mobile surface divided into tectonic plates Alpine fault cross hair connects two subduction margins New Zealand continent sits on plate boundaries where ocean floor descends into Earth's mantle at this point surfaces of two plates making u..."></div> </div> </div>

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