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The flight from Singapore finally departed at 7:45 PM and arrived in Christchurch at 9:25 AM (SQ 297). I am in Christchurch airport. We are about to take a road trip around New Zealand which will highlight some of the geographic features of New Zealand. New Zealand has a transform plate boundary running through it. This is when two plates move in opposite directions and are next to each other. In this case the plates are the Pacific plate and the Indo-Australian plate. Here is a diagram of a transform boundary:
The flight from Singapore finally departed at 7:45 PM and arrived in Christchurch at 9:25 AM (SQ 297). I am in Christchurch airport. We are about to take a road trip around New Zealand which will highlight some of the geographic features of New Zealand. New Zealand has a transform plate boundary running through it. This is when two plates move in opposite directions and are next to each other. In this case the plates are the Pacific plate and the Indo-Australian plate. Here is a diagram of a transform boundary:
In New Zealand the plates rub against each other at a slight angle which causes the Southern Alps. One of the two plates is above the other so part of the Southern Alps is higher than the other side.There is a lot of tectonic activity due to plate movement here. There were 21 earthquakes above magnitude 6 in New Zealand which indicates very high tectonic activity. In the past 5 years there were 3 earthquakes above magnitude 7. In 2011 there was a magnitude 6.3 earthquake which killed 185 people. In 1931 there was a magnitude 7.8 earthquake which killed 256 people. This was the second worst disaster in New Zealand's history. The first was an airplane accident. There many volcanoes in New Zealand, mostly on its northern island. There are mostly small eruptions spaced a few years apart. There are no major eruptions like in Iceland.
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