Story: Active faults

More links and websites

• Alpine Fault, New Zealand

  Information produced by the Department of Geology, University of Otago on the Alpine Fault, with detailed maps showing the location of the fault at various localities. 

• Building on the edge

  A report prepared by the Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment on the problems of building on or near known active faults.

• New Zealand Active Faults database

  Information and data on all known active faults in New Zealand, produced by GNS Science.

• The Alpine Schists and the Upper Triassic of Harpers Pass (Sheet S52), South Island, New Zealand

  In 1951, Harold Wellman scanned all the available aerial photographs of the South Island and identified active fault traces. All his observations are listed in tables, and his map is the first to show New Zealand active faults. Published in the New Zealand Journal of Science & Technology in 1952, it was one of the first such studies in the world.

More suggestions and sources

• Aitken, Jefley J. Rocked and ruptured: geological faults in New Zealand. Auckland: Reed, 1999.

• Chapple, Geoff. 'The Big One', New Zealand Geographic, Issue 125 (Jan-Feb 2014).

• Coates, Glen. The rise and fall of the Southern Alps. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2002.

• Cooper, A., and J. Aitken. New Zealand’s Alpine Fault. Alpha series 104. Wellington: Royal Society of New Zealand, 2000.

• Rogers, Anna. The Shaky Isles: New Zealand Earthquakes, Grantham House, 2013.

• Van Dissen, R. et al. 'It’s Our Fault: better defining earthquake risk in Wellington', 11th IAEG Congress, Auckland, 5-10 September, 2010, pp: 737-746.