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He saw a continuing fault. The men picked up a lift on the back of a Model-A truck and as they rolled along, the passing landscape fell suddenly into an enlightening pattern.
The solid low humps of granite lay on the western side of the fault, and the brittle ridges of greywacke climbed to the east. The fault was keeping pace with them as surely as the moon follows a child on a night-time street, and they mapped it at a steady 20 miles per hour. They assessed the mica at Paringa, then walked on to fulfil a larger self-appointed mission, past Haast to the Jackson River, then followed the coast around to the Hollyford River mouth and up to Lake McKerrow.
They were then kilometres due south of Haast, but still the fault scarp ran on, into the northern side of the lake and out the other side headed for Milford Sound. It was the longest straight line on Earth, and it bespoke pure tectonic power. At regional level, Civil Defence is under the control of the local authorities, and a top committee of mayors takes advice but retains control.
The chair of that committee, Janie Annear of Timaru, has just declared a civil emergency. Reilly now has powers of control and compulsion.
If he wants to commandeer a helicopter from—say—the media, he can do it. By the afternoon, Te Ripahapa has settled down from the seething ants-nest of the morning to some semblance of control.
The action plan for Canterbury is not only being implemented, including such detail as explosives to blow the Waimakariri dam, the managers are now organising the next action plan. He turns with a bright smile.
Christchurch twenty geologists pose for a group picture. As usual, Harold Wellman is all but divorced from the group, back row, off to the right.
Everyone smiles for the camera, except Wellman. That zone showed the San Andreas Fault across Southern California, and also marked in the Alpine Fault, but gave it no specific mention. Worldwide, no geologist had ever proposed such an astonishing offset. It was a cautious assessment. As to earthquake frequency, the fault was still mute, but there were ways of making it speak.
He prised fallen timber out of three river terraces and carbon-dated them by layer. His paper was the first to suggest a regular ticking of the tectonic clock. Yet South Island seismometers recorded few shakes on the fault, so maybe it was aseismic, maybe it simply crept, the compression of the plates taken up by elastic strain across the Alps, or absorbed in ductile zones.
Overseas studies suggested that the lack of earthquakes on a major fault did not signal quiescence. He hand-dug two trenches across the fault, and machine-dug three others with a tonne Mitsubishi excavator. Jilted boyfriend, 36, admits to stabbing a mum in the heart and leaving her body in a car boot after she dumped him - before asking his friend 'do you think I can be just pure evil? Share this article Share. Comments 1 Share what you think. View all.
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