5 Apr 2019

85 quakes follow slow-slip event off East Coast

From Checkpoint, 6:23 pm on 5 April 2019

Eighty-five small earthquakes have been detected off Gisborne and the Mahia Peninsula since Monday - all triggered by a major slow-slip event, according to scientists. Our reporter Sarah Robson spoke to GNS geo-physicist Laura Wallace about what they've detected.

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