The devastating earthquake that tore through Christchurch on Tuesday is the product of a new fault line in the Earth ... thought to seismic shifts. New Zealand will now understandably be keen ...

A swarm of earthquakes along a New Zealand fault-line has prompted fears of a 'megathrust' quake and devastating tsunamis. GeoNet took to Twitter on Tuesday to warn there was a 'swarm of activity ...

Read the original article. An international team that drilled almost a kilometre deep (0.6 miles) into New Zealand's Alpine Fault, which is expected to rupture in a major earthquake in the next ...

Pressure is building along one of the most active fault lines in the world and New Zealand is in a race to be ready. The Alpine Fault runs along the country's South Island and it has a history ...

The powerful earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines around the New Zealand city of Christchurch also ripped a new fault line in the Earth's surface, a geologist ...

Railway lines were bent ... which is uncomfortably built on four major faults and where a major earthquake happens roughly every 150 years. The last was in 1855. New Zealand sits at the junction of ...