Active faults - Cook Strait

Philip Barnes(NIWA)/It’s Our Fault(GNS)

Distribution of active faults in the Cook Strait region, with slip rates (red, in mm/y). The red arrow in the centre of the figure shows the direction and magnitude (in mm/y) of the motion of the Pacific Plate, relative to the Australian Plate. Onshore faults from GNS Science and offshore faults from NIWA.