The Wellington Fault runs under California Drive in Totara Park, Upper Hutt. The road has been built extra wide with a central median to keep houses back from the fault line.
Map of active Wellington Fault traces (red)
Etymology
Duke of Wellington
Country
New Zealand
Region
Wellington Region
Cities
Wellington
Characteristics
Range
Up to 8 Mw[1]
Segments
multiple
Length
170 km (110 mi)[2]
Displacement
Up to 7.6 mm (0.30 in)/year[2]
Tectonics
Plate
Australian
Status
Active
Type
Dextral fault
Age
Miocene-Holocene
New Zealand geology database (includes faults)
Wellington Fault (blue) in context main strands of the North Island Fault System.
The Wellington Fault is an active seismic fault in the southern part of the North Island of New Zealand. It is a dextral (right-lateral) strike-slip fault with variable amounts of vertical movement causing uplift to the northwest, as expressed by a series of ranges. It forms part of the North Island Fault System, which accommodates the transfer of displacement along the oblique convergent boundary between the Indo-Australian Plate and Pacific Plate.
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The WellingtonFault is an active seismic fault in the southern part of the North Island of New Zealand. It is a dextral (right-lateral) strike-slip fault...
subduction. The faults include the Wairarapa Fault and WellingtonFault to the southwest, the Ruahine and Mohaka Faults in the central section and the Waimana...
considerable damage in Wellington. The area has high seismic activity even by New Zealand standards, with a major fault, the WellingtonFault, running through...
Ohariu Fault, WellingtonFault, Wairarapa Fault, Reikorangi Fault, Otaki Forks Fault, and Wairangi Fault in the North Island. The Wairarapa Fault has an...
This list covers all faults and fault-systems that are either geologically important[clarification needed] or connected to prominent seismic activity.[clarification...
and a major earthquake fault line (the WellingtonFault) lies along its western shore. In 2014 another fault line (the Aotea Fault) was discovered extending...
earthquake. Geology of New Zealand Geology of the Wellington Region North Island Fault System WellingtonFault Rodgers, D.W.; Little T.A. (2006). "World's largest...
The Alpine Fault is a geological fault that runs almost the entire length of New Zealand's South Island, being about 600 km (370 mi). long, and forms...
"Defining the geometric segmentation and Holocene slip rate of the WellingtonFault, New Zealand: the Pahiatua section". New Zealand Journal of Geology...
development on the Hutt Valley's western escarpment that runs along the WellingtonFault. Maungaraki translated from Māori means "northern mountain". This may...
types are normal faults, reverse faults, thrusts or thrust faults and strike-slip faults. Many faults may have acted as both normal faults at one time and...
Wellington region involves the provision of drinking water services in the Greater Wellington region of New Zealand. Water supplies to the Wellington...
active today. Aro Valley formed from fault activity. One kilometre to the west of Aro Valley is the WellingtonFault running north-east along the foot of...
Greater Wellington, also known as the Wellington Region (Māori: Te Upoko o te Ika), is a non-unitary region of New Zealand that occupies the southernmost...
Stream, which feeds the Mangatainoka River. The crush zone of the WellingtonFault probably assisted the capture. The capture has deepened the gorge cut...
(2007). "Late Holocene paleoseismicity of the Pahiatua section of the Wellingtonfault, New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 50 (3):...
side of the fault with vertical offsets of about 6 metres near the fault reducing to almost nothing on the western coast of the Wellington Peninsula. The...
are larger than usual because the site is on reclaimed land near the WellingtonFault. The bridge design also needed to take into account overhead electric...
entrenched enemy, caused lopsided British casualties.The Duke of Wellingtonfaulted Cochrane and held that the attack could have succeeded were it not...
Wellington Lifelines Group published a report in 2019 examining the potential effects on Wellington of a magnitude 7.5 earthquake on the Wellington Fault...
earthquakes on the Alpine Fault and other nearby faults. Despite the substantial uplift, most of the relative motion along the Alpine Fault is transverse, not...
moored fishing vessel in Wellington Harbour. 1 October 2004 – "30 seconds of potential disaster" after Aratere had a steering fault in the Marlborough Sounds...
city in the Wellington Region of New Zealand. Administered by the Hutt City Council, it is one of the four cities that constitute the Wellington metropolitan...
Marlborough earthquake, Awatere Fault, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 49, 375–382. "Damaged Wellington buildings (sketches by Robert...
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