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Summary Two methods are suggested for linking the active transcurrent faults in the North Island and the South Island across Cook Strait. One uses the average lateral displacements along the faults, the other the location of epicentres, Both methods give the same fault pattern.
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G. J. Lensen (1958) studied this question.
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