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Slow-slip quakes and stirring supervolcanoes: What's happening beneath our feet?

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Ongoing tremors underneath Lake Topeau have seen the alert level for the Super Volcano rides raised. Geologists are closely monitoring the site, while a series of other shallow quakes have jotted Kiwis around the country. So what's the science behind all these tectonic movements and is there anything for us to worry about yet? Today Dr Finn Ilsey Kemp, a seismologist from Victoria University of Wellington, is on the front page to help us make sense of the disturbances beneath the surface.

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