Slow-slip quakes and stirring supervolcanoes: What's happening beneath our feet?
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The Alparn Fault Is Overdue for a Big Earthquake
New Zealand has decent evacuation plans in the event that we do have a major volcanic eruption. We often hear that the alparn fault is overdue for a big quake. It ruptures every few hundred years or so but that is unrelated to any of the earthquakes we've been seeing recently. How do you go about evacuating a city like Auckland really big challenge.
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