Thursday, September 9, 2010

New Zealand quake photos






More spectacular photos from the Canterbury earthquake in New Zealand are flooding the intertubes. Many are reminiscent of strike slip faulting in California with right lateral shear and offsets. Note the sand boils from liquefaction.

Take a look at the more extensive photo set at izismiles.com where I found these .










Thanks to Steve Swanson for passing along the link.