The Greatest Ever On-Land Fault Movement

A stream bed offset along a fault by an earthquake in 1855 is a world record breaker.
Here is a link to the science paper with details of how the offsets on this fault were measured: "World's largest coseismic strike-slip offset: The 1855 rupture of the Wairarapa Fault, New Zealand"
https://tinyurl.com/3t2xc4xj

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