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Why is there volcanic activity in the NZ's North Island but not in the South?
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1 . Because the North Island and South Island of New Zealand span different Plates.
2 . Their characteristics (or attributes) are therefore dissimilar.
3 . The North Island is on the Thinner Pacific Plate .(volcanoes)
4 . The South Island West of the 500km Southern Alpine fault is on the Thicker Australian Plate. They meet at the southern alps-more or less. Alps are pushed westward and up about 7mm per year. (therefore more earthquakes than volcanoes)
add. But in the past there has been volcanic activity in the S Island.
Banks Peninsula, and a large area from about Oamaru south to near Milton, including the Dunedin Volcanics, and some on the Kakanui Range. Most recently however, some tens of millions of years.
BTW all the 'hot springs' in the S Island are on the East of the Alpine Fault, and are caused by the land uplifting faster than it cools.
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