I have just been on a field trip to some key sites in the Southern Wairarapa to get some hands-on experience of geology in the field. The rocks and landscape of of the area show its geological history spanning hundreds of millions of years. I have been learning how to "read the rocks".
In 1855 a huge earthquake with a magnitude of 8+ rocked the area and caused the ground to move 18 metres horizontally and 9 metres vertically at this spot. If you look carefully at the photo you can see the bed of a stream that was cut off from its source and now intersects with a high bank.
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