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Cook Alpine Salmon shop ... a two-lane track that would take me all the way to Christchurch. ‌On my first day of serious driving, the road wound its way out of wine country and climbed over ...

there has been a major earthquake on the Alpine Fault roughly every 300 years. The last one? 1717. No one predicted the intensity of the quake that devastated Christchurch in February 2011 ...

The commercial hub of the South Island sits to the east of the Alpine fault that snakes beneath the Southern Alps. But the tremor that left much of central Christchurch in ruins came from a ...

This area is still prone to earthquakes, most notably along the Alpine fault. Further away from these fault zones the ground is generally more quiescent. Christchurch is over 100 kilometres from ...

Christchurch would have been subjected to intense ... This is most evident to geologists as the Alpine Fault that runs down the western spine of the land mass. It is these plate movements which ...

The chances of New Zealand’s Alpine Fault rupturing in a damaging earthquake in the next 50 years are much higher than previously thought, according to our research, published today. The 850km ...

An hour’s drive out of Christchurch you’ll feel like you ... And yes the floor is heated for those chilly alpine eves. Spa-inspired treats seem to appear in your bathroom at turndown.