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Pages in category "Sinkholes of New Zealand" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. H. Harwoods Hole; L.
Harwoods Hole is a cave system located in the northwest of the South Island of New Zealand, in the Abel Tasman National Park. At 183 metres (600 ft), it is New Zealand's deepest vertical shaft. It was first explored in 1958, long after it was discovered.
Tākaka Hill is notable for its (now defunct) marble quarry and for many limestone caves and sinkholes, including Ngarua Caves which are open to the public [5] and feature deposits of moa bones. [6] Harwood's Hole, at one time the deepest cave in New Zealand, is also to be found on Tākaka Hill.
The sinkhole on a farm near the North Island town of Rotorua is the length of two football fields and the depth of a six-storey building.
The uplift is related to the predominantly reverse Hunters Hills fault, which defines the south eastern border of the Cannington Basin. [6] The two strand fault zone is not particularly active and has been mapped for 62 km (39 mi), with a slip rate of less than 1 mm (0.039 in)/year, an average displacement at events between 3–6 m (9.8–19.7 ft) that occur more than 10,000 years apart.
The cliffs of Peacock's Gallop were separated from the road to Sumner by shipping containers stacked two high (photo 2012).. An earthquake occurred in Christchurch on 14 February 2016 at 1:13 p.m. local time (00:13 UTC) and initially recorded as 5.9 [4] on the Richter scale, but subsequently reviewed as 5.7. [5]
Sinkholes can range in size from a few feet wide to hundreds of acres, and anywhere from 1 to 100 feet or more deep. Sinkholes can swallow up cars, parts of roads and even houses.
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