Friday, May 30, 2014

New Zealand!

Hi! Today I'm in New Zealand! I experienced a few earthquakes because of the Alpine Fault(transform boundary). The Australian plate moves northeast while the Pacific Plate moves southwest.

  http://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/AlpineFault.png

Here you can see the fault pretty clearly.


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