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Ruapehu is located in the centre of the North Island of New Zealand, 23 km (14 mi) northeast of Ohakune, New Zealand and 23 km (14 mi) southwest of the southern shore of Lake Taupō, within Tongariro National Park. Ruapehu is the largest and southernmost volcano in the national park, with an estimated volume of 110 km 3. [5]
Ruapehu District is a territorial authority in the centre of New Zealand's North Island. It has an area of 6,734 square kilometers and the district's population in June 2024 was 13,550. [ 2 ]
[2] [12] The structure of the southern Ruapehu magma system is however unknown and evidence exists for at least in the case of the northern Ohakune volcanic complex an approximately 16–18 km (9.9–11.2 mi) depth for the originating magma reservoir, fair magma ascent rates and that the magma conduit may be independent of the main feeder ...
Mount Ruapehu, the tallest mountain in the North Island, is a 150 km 3 (36 cu mi) andesite cone surrounded by a 150 km 3 (36 cu mi) ring-plain. [40] This ring plain is formed from numerous volcanic deposits created by slope failure, eruptions, or lahars.
The seismically active southern end of the Taupō Rift beyond Mount Ruapehu has a number of mainly east to west orientated termination faults where the western wall Raurimu Fault and eastern wall Rangipo Fault (Desert Road Fault) terminate in the Ruapehu Graben, of the central North Island of New Zealand. [3]
Ruapehu may refer to: Mount Ruapehu , an active volcano, the highest mountain in the North Island of New Zealand Ruapehu District , the local government area that covers much land generally west and south of Mount Ruapehu, mostly in the headwaters of the Whanganui River
Ohakune is located in the Ruapehu District and the Manawatū-Whanganui region, to the immediate south-west of the slopes of the Mount Ruapehu stratovolcano. The associated Ohakune volcanic complex is just to the north of the town and the small maar lakes Rangatauanui and Rangatauaiti are to the south of the town.
The Rangipo Fault (also known in the past as Desert Road Fault, Whangaehu River Fault, 'Whangaehu Fault [1]) is the eastern Taupō rift-bounding north–south striking normal fault complex of the Ruapehu Graben, a seismically active area of the central North Island of New Zealand to the west of Mount Ruapehu.