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(Photo : Getty Images) The Alpine Fault   The Alpine Fault runs along the South Island of the country and it has a history of unexpected movements. Researchers can study the lakes and old-growth forests in the foothills of the Southern Alps and become knowledgeable about what s come before.  What they have discovered reveals a great earthquake, one of the biggest in the modern history of New Zealand, is due. In studying the Alpine Fault, researchers have made a timeline of its history and they are aware it makes very big shifts, on average, approximately every 300 years.  It s complicated science that dates the last magnitude-8 earthquake along the fault line to year 1717. Simple maths reveals to us it s been over 300 years since then. So, what type of earthquake is upcoming for the Alpine Fault? That s the question Jamie Howarth, a senior lecturer in physical geography at the Victoria University of Wellington and his team recently set out to answer.

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