On Monday 14 November 2016, the magnitude 7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake resulted in ground movements exceeding 5cm from the middle of the South Island to the bottom of the North Island. Drone photo by Julian Thomson, The tectonic setting of New Zealand is characterised by the Pacific and the Australian plate boundary with two subduction systems, the Puysegur in the southwest and the Hikurangi in the northeast. Joanne R. Stevenson, Julia Becker 2, Nicholas Cradock-Henry 3, Sarb Johal 4, David Johnston 5, Caroline Orchist on 6. and Erica Seville 7 Kaikoura Earthquake and Tsunami: 14 November 2016 Post Event Report (National Emergency Management Agency response) Exercise Tangaroa post-exercise report. To our people-focussed team of duty officers, technicians, app and website developers, public information specialist and scientists who have worked tirelessly and under the most stressful conditions: thank you for your dedicated work. A powerful earthquake of moment magnitude (Mw) 7.8 occurred in the Kaikoura region, South Island, New Zealand, at 00:02:56 AM (local time), 14 November 2016. about the Kaikōura aftershock sequence and forecast. All submissions will be reviewed and verified before they are added to the collections. A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake recently struck New Zealand and lifted the seabed 6 feet upward. Science reporter Jamie Morton delved into the data to look at what we know so far. The earthquake also affected Wellington, but (thankfully) at greatly reduced force. In the city of Wellington, widespread damage occurred to buildings, many communities suffered power outages, and damage to docks impaired ferry traffic across Cook Strait. News & Views How complex is the 2016 M w 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake, South Island, New Zealand? As the data streams in, scientists are scrambling to decode its hidden meanings and answer some burning questions of Antipodean geology. Near Okiwi Bay, the team were surveying the elevation of the pre-earthquake low tide mark using two surveying techniques. Strong aftershocks have struck New Zealand after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake killed two people. The Mw7.8 2016 Kaikōura earthquake: Surface fault rupture and seismic hazard context June 2017 Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 50(2):73-84 Seismologists offer detailed look at New Zealand's Kaikoura earthquake, ScienceDaily. By combining 2016 coseismic slip partitioning, large-scale fault kinematics, volcanism propagation, seismicity, and slab geometry, we … The Insurance Council of New Zealand announced today that private insurers have received business claims valued at more than $900 million from the 14 November 2016 Kaikoura earthquake. According to the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS) in New Zealand, the earthquake epicenter was at 42.69 °S, 173.02 °E, about 90 km northeast of Christchurch, the 3rd largest city in New Zealand (Fig. At: https://www.icnz.org.nz/media-resources/media-releases/single/item/kaikoura-earthquake-business-claims-reach-900-million/, Cape Campbell, in the north-east of the South Island, moved north-north-east by over two metres, rising almost a metre vertically, Kaikoura moved north-east by almost one metre, rising 70 centimetres, The east coast of the lower North Island moved up to five centimetres to the west, The Wellington region moved between two and six centimetres northwards. The 2016, moment magnitude 7.8, Kaikoura earthquake in New Zealand’s South Island generated some of the most complex surface ruptures ever observed. This fifth briefing contains observations arising from a visit to Wellington and Blenheim. The report acknowledges the following sources: Insurance Council of New Zealand 2017, 'Kaikoura earthquake business claims reach $900 million,' media release 1 February 2017. However, the driving mechanism for such earthquake rupture complexity remains partly unclear. The impact on nature, the town, and the people was more than what anyone could have imagined. At: https://www.eqc.govt.nz/news/update-on-kaikoura-earthquake-claims, Amos J 2017, 'Kaikoura: 'Most complex quake ever studied,'' BBC News, 23 March 2017.Daly M 2017, 'Kaikoura Earthquake tsunami was as high as 7 metres at one spot,' stuff.co.nz, 28 March 2017. Photo by Kate Clark. Out of the erosion zone - quake's unexpected boon, Radio NZ. The big earthquake that struck New Zealand last year may have been the most complex ever, say scientists. Powerful Earthquake Jolted New Zealand Seabed 6 Feet Upward, Forbes. Update on Kaikoura earthquake claims, New Zealand Earthquake Commission. Christchurch moved two centimetres to the south. 1a). The response included a New Zealand Fire Service Urban Search and Rescue squad. Kaikoura building settlements almost complete: EQC, Insurance News. Learn more about the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program . The New Zealand Earthquake Commission had received around 38,000 residential claims for damage caused by March 2017. 15,840 Felt Rapid Reports were submitted online in the first hour and our website took a massive 250 million hits in 24 hours (peaking at 35,000 hits per second). In reality most faults sit still for hundreds or thousands of years, while the land around them gets pushed and pulled, and then they slip a lot all at once, creating an earthquake.). Strong shaking was felt throughout New Zealandwith 15840 felt reports submitted to GeoNet (figure 1 below). Due to the presence of steep slopes in areas of strong ground shaking over 10,000 landslides occurred in the wider regions of North Canterbury and Marlborough (research article). The slow slip events we most commonly observe in New Zealand occur on the Hikurangi subduction zone, The tsunami that followed the Kaikoura Earthquake reached a peak height of about 7 metres, researchers have confirmed. In scientific terms, the Kaikōura earthquake was a new phenomenon. to transportation networks and other lifeline utilities as well as disruption to the agriculture and tourism Live: 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes near Hanmer Springs in South Island - two killed, Kaikoura isolated, Wellington CBD damaged, The New Zealand Herald. This visualisation shows the propagation of seismic waves during the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake as well as the tsunami that was triggered. The video, released by GNS Science on May 12, provides a unique view of the former hill now known as Seafront Slip. Christchurch, Wellington, North Canterbury and Marlborough are the top locations for claims lodged. 13:52, 15 NOV 2016. Potential for future damaging earthquakes in New Zealand: Geonet and GNS Science have developed a set of maps of probability of damaging shaking for a series of three MMI intensity levels in the next 30 days. The 7.8 magnitude quake lifted the seabed by 0.5 to 2 meters (2 to 7 feet) along a 20-kilometer stretch of the Kaikoura coast. Google Earth image showing the length of the South Island Coastline impacted by the Kaikoura earthquake and subsequent uplift Redlines show the faults. If you have information you would like to contribute (documents, data and images), please click the button on the right to go to the submissions page. Much of the science and understanding that has been achieved from this event would not be without the help of local people. Gary Morton relives the night when he sat with the body of his partner, who died in the Kaikoura earthquake. Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) and EQC have been providing us with funding to develop and sustain our GPS network. (Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience, 2017). A review of the Kaikōura earthquake has revealed it generated an almost 7m tsunami and it was only luck that prevented it from causing more destruction. Another aspect to consider is the type of coordinates for new data collected in the affected area; should they be consistent with existing pre-earthquake coordinates or do they need to reflect post-earthquake … The quake lasted approximately two minutes and was considered notable for the complexity of the ruptures involved. The construction was The rupture lasted nearly 2 minutes in total, and where the faults met the ground surface the ground was displaced, horizontally (sideways) and vertically (up-down) by up to 12 metres. Ruptures occurred on multiple fault lines and our community was completely cut off from the rest of New Zealand. EQC has received around 38,000 residential claims for damage caused by the 14 November Kaikoura earthquake. These slow slip events following the Kaikoura earthquake released a large amount of built-up tectonic energy and lasted over the weeks and months following the earthquake. The Mw 7.8 November 14, 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake, Briefing No. Users and managers of spatial data need to consider what impact (if any) the earthquake has had on existing data. Kaikōura quake caused 6.9 metre tsunami, Radio NZ. 4, Risk Frontiers. We acknowledge the people of Kaikōura, Hurunui, Marlborough and Wellington areas and thank all of the landowners who permitted our access to their land. The USGS operates a 24/7 National Earthquake Information Center in Colorado that can be reached for more information at (303) 273-8500. Astonishingly, the M7.8 Kaikōura earthquake triggered large slow slip events M 7.8 - 54km NNE of Amberley, New Zealand, USGS Earthquake Hazards Program. along much of the Hikurangi subduction zone, even as far away as Gisborne, ~600 km away from the earthquake. + 3 other earthquakes 20140201 Patches for events: Cook Strait, 17 July 2013 Lake Grassmere, 16 August 2013 20160701 Reverse patches Christchurch, 14 February 2016 20170601 Hybrid patch for Kaikoura 14 November 2016 Photo by Tim Little, One of Tim and Russ’s trenches (pink rectangles) was cut in half by movement on the Kekerengu Fault (red line. Cross section of the North Island of New Zealand showing where the slow-slip earthquakes (brown to yellow patches) is happening at the boundary between the Australian and Pacific Plates. The Kaikōura earthquake occurred in an area known as the Marlborough fault system (MFS). Strong earthquake - Kaikoura, New Zealand on November 14, 2016 November 14, 2016 by Armand Vervaeck Earthquake-report.com only survives with (mostly small) PRIVATE DONATIONS . Kaikoura Earthquake and Tsunami Post Event Report (14 November 2016) 4 May 2017 3 SUMMARY OF THE EVENT At 0002 NZDT on Monday 14 November 2016, amagnitude 7.8 earthquake occurred northeast of Culverden. Surveying at a coastal uplift site near Half Moon Bay, on the southern side of the Hope Fault, uplift here is 2.1 – 2.4 m. Earthquake geologists from GNS Science and marine biologists from University of Canterbury surveying coastal uplift. From GeoNet tsunami gauges and Lyttelton Port Company and PrimePort Timaru tide gauges. Thanks LINZ and EQC! The 2016 Kaikoura earthquake was a magnitude 7.8 (M w) earthquake in the South Island of New Zealand.It happened two minutes after midnight on 14 November 2016 NZDT (11:02 on 13 November UTC). M 7.8 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake Our team including the broader GNS seismology team provided not only timely response information to NZ decision makers (NZ government, Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management, Engineering communities etc) but also contributed critical science information: caused extensive coastal uplift, widespread landslides and landslide dams, as well as slow-slip 'silent' earthquakes. A large number of landslides occurred on the coastal cliffs starting just south from Cape Campbell, becoming more intense south of the Clarence River, with several larger (100,000 – 500,000 m3) Jo-Anne Mackinnon died because of the Kaikoura earthquake. Kaikoura earthquake business claims reach $900 million, Insurance Council of New Zealand. 2, Risk Frontiers. The two sides of the trench are now about nine metres apart. Shortly after midnight on 14 November 2016 a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the South Island of New Zealand, 95 kilometres from Christchurch. At the beginning of 2016, the priority focus was to complete the civic centre. licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand License. with modern instruments (research article). Scientists consider it one of the more complex earthquakes on record. 5, Risk Frontiers (PDF 972KB). Insert CleverPhrase Here 13:25, 13 November 2016 (UTC) Merge with November 2016 New Zealand earthquakes At 12.02 a.m., on Monday 14 November 2016 NZDT, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck 15 km north-east of Culverden, North Canterbury, starting near the town of Waiau. Because of this valuable network and data, we are able to understand the geological process and inform New Zealanders. Aftershocks have continued to rumble through the night. - New Zealand earthquake live updates. The first wave arrived within 10 minutes with 6.9m run up measured in Goose Bay. New Zealand’s Earthquake Commission (EQC) says 88% of residential building settlements from the 2016 Kaikoura catastrophe were completed at the end of last month. ... media caption The earthquake caused damage in Kaikoura and Culverden. The Elms Homestead in Kaikoura collapsed following the magnitude 7.5 earthquake at 12.02am, and rescuers spent hours searching for the three residents. Uplifted coastal platform and bull kelp (_Durvillaea antarctica_). Along many parts of the coast the uplift was evident from decaying subtidal bull kelp (Durvillaea antarctica) on exposed rocky platforms. At: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11848670The New Zealand Herald 2016, 'Live: 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes near Hanmer Springs in South Island - two killed, Kaikoura isolated, Wellington CBD damaged,' The New Zealand Herald, 14 November 2016. I know that submarine landslides off of Kaikoura could trigger quite large Tsunami as well, so it isn't just the earthquakes people should be worried about. Details; History; Story; Technical; Tsunami Photo by Tim Little, Field measurements of offset fences (orange line). industries (research article, research article). On November 14, 2016, an earthquake measuring 7.8 magnitude on the Richter scale struck the northeastern Kaikoura region on the South Island of New Zealand.It produced more than 20 fault ruptures, with some 112 miles (180 kilometers) of surface ruptures. The Kaikoura Mw7.8 earthquake struck at 12.03 am local time on 14th November 2016 (UTC: 11.03 am 13th November 2016) – a shallow (15 km) magnitude 7.8 earthquake (Mw), with an epicentre located near Waiau in North Canterbury (Kaiser et al, 2017), and strongly shook the North Canterbury and Marlborough regions of NZ. The largest valley-blocking landslide has an approximate volume of 23 (±2) M m3 and the debris travelled up to 2.7 km down slope forming a dam on the Hapuku River. The Mw 7.8 14 November Hanmer Springs earthquake occurred on or near the interface between the Pacific Plate and the Australian plate. Information about emergencies, disasters and disaster resilience comes from many sources. 3, Risk Frontiers. Damaged buildings in Wellington: Nearly 50 earthquake-damaged buildings in Wellington have been inspected by engineers, with some likely to be closed for weeks or longer, and one may require demolition. The earthquake left coral and seabed exposed above the ocean in a matter of minutes. ... 14 November 2016. A detailed map of active faults in the northeast South Island, from Stirling et al. Kaikōura businesses 'within 6-8 weeks of collapse', Radio NZ. Thousands of people were affected with significant damage landslides. USGS map of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake in New Zealand on November 13, 2016. The M w 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake struck just after midnight on 14 November, with an epicenter ~20 … The magnitude 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake that struck the South Island of New Zealand last November was the largest on-land recorded earthquake in the country's history. (Click for a bigger map.). Some Kaikōura businesses are within six to eight weeks of collapse as visitor numbers dwindle, a new group set up to advocate for earthquake-affected traders and retailers says. A powerful earthquake has struck New Zealand near the ... Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee after flying over the coastal town of Kaikoura, ... Zealand's South Island, November 14, 2016. The impacts of the Kaikōura earthquake were wide-ranging. At: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/90773348/kaikoura-earthquake-tsunami-was-as-high-as-7-metres-at-one-spotEvans K 2017, 'In the wake of the quake,' New Zealand Geographic 143: Jan - Feb 2017Howie C 2017, ''It was just a freak thing' - Partner of Kaikoura earthquake victim,' The New Zealand Herald, 6 May 2017. Since the Kaikōura earthquake there have been a total of 21 new earthquake monitoring installations. The epicentre where shaking started was about 15 kilometres (9 mi) north-east of Culverden and 60 kilometres (37 mi) south-west of the tourist town of Kaikoura. On November 14th 2016, the earthquake hit, rattling Culverdon through to Seddon. New drone footage has revealed the extent of a massive landslip triggered by the November 2016 Kaikoura earthquake in New Zealand. (Most faults don't constantly slip - the slip rate is a measure of the movement on a fault over thousands of years. The November 13, 2016 M 7.8 earthquake in North Canterbury, New Zealand, occurred as the result of shallow oblique-reverse faulting on or near the boundary between the Pacific and Australia plates in South Island, New Zealand. One of the worst hit towns was Kaikoura, which lies close to the epicenter of the earthquake. A tsunami followed the earthquake; at the time of the tsunami, the maximum run-up height was 6.9 metres above tide level. Shortly after midnight on Monday 14th November 2016, the 7.8 magnitude Kaikoura earthquake rocked New Zealand. The majority of claims lodged are for building damage only (71%), 10% for building and contents, 9% contents only and 10% land damage. Offshore, amid the kelp, seals raised a … Between these systems is a zone of strike-slip (where the plates slide laterally past each other) and compression, where the plate motion is taken up on a complex network of numerous faults in the northern South Island. Wellington Earthquake National Initial Response Plan version 1.1 now available Results of the Disaster Preparedness Survey for 2017 now available The Mw 7.8 November 14, 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake, Briefing No. In one area, the uplift was a remarkable 5.5 meters (18 feet). Coastal uplift from the massive Kaikōura earthquake may have saved the local council from having to spend millions of dollars protecting the town from erosion. The earthquake caused two fatalities: one man was killed in the collapse of the Kaikoura Elms Homestead; one woman died following the impact of the event on the Mount Lyford log cabin where she lived. At: https://www.icnz.org.nz/media-resources/media-releases/single/item/kaikoura-earthquake-business-claims-reach-900-million/Morton J 2016, 'The Big Read: Unravelling the quirks of the Kaikoura Earthquakes,' The New Zealand Herald, 21 November 2016. The height was approximately 5.3 metres at Oaro; a survey team located various marine flora and fauna as far as 250 metres inland of the high tide mark. The forgotten impact: Kaikoura earthquake: Wellington still paying the price, Deloitte. By February 2017, business insurance claims exceeded NZ$900 million, broken down as follows (correct 1 February 2017): Satellite imagery indicated that as a result of the earthquake: This incident was included in the Major Incidents Report 2016-17 (Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience, 2017). Attribution 3.0 New Zealand License, Hikurangi Subduction Earthquakes and Slip Behaviour, Earthquake M 7.8 Kaikōura Mon, Nov 14 2016. This includes 9 GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System), 9 strong motion (measures really strong shaking), 2 short-period (for smaller shaking) and 1 repeater (information transfer). Overall, the damage along the Kaikōura coast from the tsunami was minor because the tsunami arrived at mid to low tide, much of the Kaikōura coastline was uplifted during the earthquake, and the beaches along the coastline here are steep. At: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11747414The New Zealand Herald 2016, 'Tragic rescue: 100-year-old pulled from rubble after son killed in devastating quake,' The New Zealand Herald, 14 November 2016. Kaikoura: state of emergency declared in town cut off by New Zealand Earthquake, The Guardian. Kaikoura Earthquake Nov 14th 2016 Just after midnight on the 14th of November 2016 Kaikoura was hit by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that has been described as the most complex ever studied. More than 200 landslides blocked rivers and generated landslide dams. The most likely scenario is that the aftershocks will continue to decrease in frequency (and in line with forecasts) over the next year and no aftershock of magnitude 7 or larger will occur. Since the Kaikoura Earthquake almost two weeks ago there has been a lot of comparison to the Canterbury Earthquake sequence. This led to the closure of state highway routes and the main railway line (read here). I wonder if they have triggered the warning alarms in Sumner? The Kaikoura earthquake shook New Zealand. A 100-year-old woman and her daughter-in-law were rescued from the rubble of an historic homestead, while her son tragically did not make it. Starting in Culverdon , 70km south of Kaikōura , the quake ripped across several fault … Field surveys and comparison of pre- and post-earthquake airborne lidar measurements show variable vertical coastal displacements, ranging from -2.5m to 6.5m. 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