Scientists have installed elegant borehole sensors off New Zealand’s east coast to monitor frequent slow-slip events and the potential for large earthquakes in the Hikurangi Subduction Zone. Thes sensors are designed to detect slow-slip earthquakes, which are seismic events that release energy over extended periods, typically days or weeks.according to a statement from Earth Sciences New Zealand (ESNZ), these events play a crucial role in the buildup and release of tectonic stress along major faults.

“It’s like a ripple moving across the plate interface,” stated Josh Edgington of the University of texas Institute for Geophysics in the United States, who led the project alongside Charles Williams, an ESNZ geodynamic modeler.

New data from the Hikurangi Subduction Zone, anticipated later this year, is expected to shed further light on slow-slip earthquakes and their influence on the earthquake cycle. This research aims to enhance hazard assessments for major faults within the active Pacific Ring of Fire, ESNZ reported.

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