The 7.8 magnitude earthquake that stuck the South Island of New Zealand on Nov fourteen , 2016 , guide keep changed the geography of the portion , especially roughly the epicenter. In the countryside roughly Waiau , most 30km due east of Hanmer Springs , where the shaking was the highest , a department of the public has lifted vertically forming a long rocky wall , xv human foot tall.
These impressive pictures were captured yesteryear Dr. Kate Pedley , of University of Canterbury's Department of Geological Sciences , when she as well as her colleagues encountered this massive fracture inward the landscape equally they were surveying countryside for testify of faulting.
Photo credit: Dr Kate Pedley
Dr Kate Pedley (168 cm tall) standing side yesteryear side to a scarp. Photo credit: Dr Kate Pedley
Photo credit: Dr Kate Pedley
Photo credit: Dr Kate Pedley
Photo credit: Dr Kate Pedley
Photo credit: Dr Kate Pedley
A like uplifting was seen at a beach , where a business office of the seabed was thrust out of the H2O yesteryear to a greater extent than than 6 feet leaving seaweed-covered rocks as well as marine animals exposed higher upwards tide level.
Sometimes raised beaches gradually drib downwards 1 time again over centuries , simply the newly raised coastline of Kaikoura could hold upwards a permanent characteristic , according GNS Science , a New Zealand government-owned interrogation institute.
Section of the seabed raised out of the water.
A photograph (above) taken inward March 2016 shows how the coastline looked earlier the earthquake struck. The photograph below is of the coastline equally it appears now.
Sources: NZ Herald / Science Alert