Historic Earthquakes
The Alpine Fault and its northern offshoots have experienced sizeable earthquakes in historic times:
- 1848 - Marlborough, estimated magnitude = 7.5
- 1888 - North Canterbury, estimated magnitude = 7.3
- 1929 - Arthur's Pass, estimated magnitude = 7.1
- 1929 - Murchison, estimated magnitude = 7.8
- 1968 - Inangahua, estimated magnitude = 7.1
- 2003 - Fiordland, estimated magnitude = 7.1
- 2009 - Fiordland, estimated magnitude = 7.8
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