9 Mar 2018

Mission to study NZ's largest fault line sets sail

From Morning Report, 8:44 am on 9 March 2018

An ambitious mission to lower two sub-seafloor observatories into the Hikurangi subduction zone gets underway next week. The Hikurangi subduction zone off the east coast is New Zealand's largest fault. Dr Laura Wallace of GNS Science is leading the team. She talks to Susie Ferguson.