>> Rangitoto Next ???
>
> Hope it won't happen

Living 10 miles from it, I tend to agree with that. Vote "No" to
boulders through the roof and pyroclastic flows

Auckland is built on volcanoes. Like Christchurch, Pompeii
and New Orleans, at some point there will be a time when you
think, hmmm, maybe the town would've been better off up
the road a bit

Christchurch is particularly prone to liquefaction during tremors
because of the underlying geology, and that allowed for more
damage than might have happened on solid ground

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weather/2011/feb/23/new-zealand-christchurch-eart=
hquake-geology

On the surface of course it's a very nice place to live. Plains,
hills, harbours, rivers etc

You might have seen the dramatic footage of the big quake near
Anchorage in 1964, 9.2 tremor + liquefaction + tsunami

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Alaska_earthquake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DEoJLfsRvE5c and others


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