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Drillers in hardhats work on the rig floor of a research vessel.
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Getting to the Bottom of Slow-Motion Earthquakes

by Adityarup Chakravorty 24 April 20202 December 2022

For close to 20 years, slow-motion earthquakes have been an enigma. Core samples provide new clues to their origins.

This aerial view shows Lake Taupō amid the whenua (land) of Ngāti Tūwharetoa on the North Island of New Zealand.
Posted inScience Updates

Implications of a Supervolcano’s Seismicity

by F. Illsley-Kemp, S. J. Barker, B. Smith and C. J. N. Wilson 5 March 202029 September 2021

Last year’s rumblings beneath New Zealand’s Taupō supervolcano, the site of Earth’s most recent supereruption, lend new urgency to research and outreach efforts in the region.

River through a green mountain valley
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Dry Rivers Offer a Preview of Climate Change

by S. Larned 19 September 20198 November 2022

As the climate warms, many rivers that are currently perennial may become intermittent.

A research vessel traverses Sydney Harbor with the Sydney Opera House in the background.
Posted inScience Updates

Australia–New Zealand Plan for Future Scientific Ocean Drilling

by M. F. Coffin, J. Parr and L. Armand 29 May 201918 October 2022

Australian–New Zealand IODP Consortium Ocean Planet Workshop; Canberra, Australia, 14–16 April 2019

Researchers drill into New Zealand’s Alpine Fault to better understand fault structure and earthquake physics
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Drilling into a Future Earthquake

by A. Branscombe 26 February 20186 October 2021

Researchers drill into a fault that is anticipated to rupture in coming decades to study fault structure and earthquake physics.

Researchers craft new imagery to map the geophysical mechanics behind earthquakes in New Zealand’s Hikurangi subduction zone
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Imaging the Underlying Mechanics of New Zealand Earthquakes

by S. Witman 18 October 201711 January 2022

Researchers create a first-of-its-kind image to map electrical properties of rocks and minerals throughout the Hikurangi subduction zone.

Aerial view of Orakei basin, near Auckland, New Zealand, where a research team took core samples near the center of a maar, an ancient volcanic explosion crater.
Posted inScience Updates

Probing the History of New Zealand's Orakei Maar

by P. C. Augustinus 20 September 201623 September 2022

A team of scientists drilled into the bed within a northern New Zealand explosion crater lake to gain insights into volcanic hazards and past climates.

aoraki-mount-cook-new-zealand-alpine-fault
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Revising the Displacement History of New Zealand's Alpine Fault

by Terri Cook 22 July 201629 September 2021

A reinterpretation of structural and paleomagnetic data suggests that New Zealand's Alpine Fault accommodates a far greater percentage of geologically recent plate motion than previously thought.

seismometer deployment offshore New Zealand
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Undersea Data Tie Slow Fault Slip to Tsunami-Causing Quakes

by JoAnna Wendel 6 May 201623 January 2023

Slow events might help scientists better understand when and why tsunami-generating earthquakes occur.

Recovery of one of the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory instruments aboard R/V Roger Revelle.
Posted inScience Updates

Investigations of Shallow Slow Slip Offshore of New Zealand

by R. Harris, L. Wallace, S. Webb, Y. Ito, K. Mochizuki, H. Ichihara, S. Henrys, A. Tréhu, S. Schwartz, A. Sheehan, D. Saffer and R. Lauer 28 March 201618 January 2022

Recent and upcoming studies of the Hikurangi margin east of New Zealand shed light on previously undetectable tectonic movements.

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