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    The Wairoa North Fault has a maximum Mw6.7 potential for normal fault rupture and is the closest known active fault to the city of Auckland being 40 km...
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  • region of New Zealand. The earthquake was caused by movement along the Wairoa North Fault, which runs through the area. At the time, the settlement of Auckland...
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  • active fault in the Auckland Region, as defined geopolitically, is the Wairoa North Fault. However, there could be other possibly active faults within...
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    The Hauraki Fault is a normal fault at the North Island of New Zealand. It is along the eastern side of the still tectonically active Hauraki Rift which...
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    The Kerepehi Fault (also known as the Kerepēhi Fault) is a NeS-to NWeSE-striking normal fault system in the North Island of New Zealand aligned with the...
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  • Thumbnail for Firth of Thames Fault
    The Firth of Thames Fault is a postulated minor hinge fault along the western side of the still tectonically active Hauraki Rift which could have a length...
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    The Wairoa River, also known as Wairoa South, is the second longest river in the Auckland Region of New Zealand's North Island. It flows south from its...
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    margin of the belt is defined by the north-south Wairoa North Fault the eastern margins have at least three east-west fault lines. The unnamed most northern...
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  • Thumbnail for 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera
    area was extensive, with ashfall blanketing nearby villages, including Te Wairoa. The eruption is responsible for the presumed destruction of the famed Pink...
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    Tauranga, the bridle track to Ohinemutu on Lake Rotorua, by coach to Te Wairoa (the home of the missionary the Reverend Seymour Mills Spencer), by canoe...
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