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by shagie 902 days ago
Out There Learning - The Greatest Ever On-Land Fault Movement - https://youtu.be/LUsIIJwxPYU (length: 4m 25s)

> Where is the world's greatest known on-land fault movement of any individual earthquake? It's at a place called Pigeon Bush near Wellington New Zealand. It is the surface trace of the Wairarapa Fault. In 1855 a magnitude 8.2 earthquake offset a small stream bed by about 18.5 metres which is the greatest single-event fault movement of any on-land fault in the globe!