New Zealand is an independent, self-governing country in its own right. It is in the Southern Hemisphere, within the region of Oceania, which also includes Australia, Papua New Guinea and some South Pacific islands. It is not in Australia.
New Zealand is situated on the boundary of the Australian and the Pacific Plates. The collision of these plates caused the Pacific plate to subduct underneath the Australian plate which carries the North Island. To the south of the South Island, the situation is reversed.
Subduction
atlantic
New Zealand is situated on the active boundary of the Pacific and Australian tectonic plates.
The Ruapehu volcano, and indeed all of the Taupo Volcanic Zone arises as a result of subduction of the Pacific plate under the Australian plate. Thus the volcanic activity occurs on the edge of the Australian Plate.gns.org.nz has on their website, an excellent depiction of deep earthquakes in New Zealand.
Usually in convergent plate boundary scenarios.
The Pacific Ocean and in tectonics, the Pacific Plate.
The simple reason is: New Zealand is on a continental fault line. Earthquakes and volcanic activity are the result of movement between tectonic plates. These plates constantly move as underground stresses are released through the Earth's crust. The islands of New Zealand are situated over the boundary between the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates. The Pacific "Ring of Fire" is the area where most of the world's seismic activity takes place. It is a ring encircling the Pacific Ocean in a roughly horseshoe shape, beginning at New Zealand, continuing up through the Philippines and Indonesia, through the edge of the eastern Asian countries, then down the western coast of the USA and South America. Australia, however, does not lie directly over any such fault lines. Occasional minor quakes and tremors occur from time to time (such as that which occurred in Meckering, Western Australia, in 1963). However, even Australia's largest and most devastating earthquake (Newcastle, 1989) is believed to have been triggered by 200 years of underground coal mining, not by seismic activity.
The 'South Island'. A collision boundary.
The boundary is between the Australian Plate and the Pacific Plate.
New Zealand is situated on the active boundary of the Pacific and Australian tectonic plates.
recessive plate boundary
Divergent plate boundary.
transform boundary
Divergent Boundary Plate BoundaryDivergent Boundary Plate BoundaryDivergent Boundary Plate BoundaryDivergent Boundary Plate BoundaryDivergent Boundary Plate BoundaryvDivergent Boundary Plate BoundaryDivergent Boundary Plate BoundaryDivergent Boundary Plate BoundaryDivergent Boundary Plate BoundaryDivergent Boundary Plate BoundaryDivergent Boundary Plate BoundaryDivergent Boundary Plate Boundary
The northern boundary of New Zealand is located at a latitude of 40.9 degrees south. This corresponds to the location of Cape Regina.
New York is on the north american plate
The Pacific Plate subducts beneath northern New Zealand, and the Australian Plate subducts beneath New Zealand in the South.
The 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquakes are a rare example of large earthquakes occurring in the middle of a plate, there was no plate boundary involved.
Older material