No worries. Kiwi's have the World's fastest Indian [Scout motorcycle]. This is fast enough to escape any volcano.
No worries. Kiwi's have the World's fastest Indian [Scout motorcycle]. This is fast enough to escape any volcano.
Welcome back, peeps. How much time until the stuff really starts going downhill?
"Not by Fire but by Ice
THE NEXT ICE AGE - NOW!"
Warns of volcanic eruption.
Irony
Wow... where to start. Probably the URL "iceagenow" should be enough. Picture shows the australian plate and the eurasian plate, but that doesn't go anywhere New Zealand. Should be the australian plate and the pacific plate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plates_tect2_en.svg
The Pacific Plate is subducting under the Indo-Australian Plate north and east of New Zealand, but the direction of subduction reverses in the south of the Alpine Fault where the Indo-Australian Plate starts subducting under the Pacific Plate.
The subduction zones can be seen to the northeast and southwest - not sure how they link this to Christchurch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zealandia-Continent_map_en.svg
If you want to find a super volcano in New Zealand, there's one that's far more obvious - scroll down to the bottom of the list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_Explosivity_Index#Examples_of_eruptions_by_VEI
Taupo is considered to be dormant rather than extinct.
