Powerful Quake has 'Ripped a New Fault Line in Surface'
Western Morning News, The › September 06, 2010
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New Zealand's powerful earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted railway lines around Christchurch ripped a new 11ft wide fault line in the earth's surface, a geologist has said.
Canterbury University geology professor Mark Quigley said what "looks to us that it could be a new fault" had ripped across the earth and pushed some surface areas up.See the full content of this document
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Powerful Quake has 'Ripped a New Fault Line in Surface'
The quake was caused by the continuing collision between the Pacific and Australian tectonic p...
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