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2019/2020 Grand Challenge:
For the 20182019/2019 2020 summer period the USER Grand Challenge is: ‘Modelling, visualising, and communicating future major earthquakes and their impacts to the New Zealand public’. QuakeCoRE researchers have recently developed models of over 500 different major earthquakes that might occur in the near future in New Zealand and undertaken advanced simulations (using NZ’s largest supercomputers) which predict how strong the ground will shake in each earthquake (e.g. such as this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c-Fwhaigc ), and the aim of the USER Grand Challenge is to:
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As part of the USER programme students will get to experience one of two field trips:
(1) ‘Looking for faults in the Canterbury region’: This field trip will involve travelling from Christchurch to the Canterbury foothills and Southern Alps to examine areas which clearly showcase active tectonics in the landscape. This fieldtrip will be led by researchers who have decades of experience in identifying and characterising faults, including research following the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake.
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