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Picture from Dr Kate Pedley/ Caters News – (Picture shows: Huge Hadrians Wall-like fault erupting from New Zealand countryside) These incredible pictures show a massive WALL has been created by the moving earth in the New Zealand countryside created when the 7.8 magnitude quake struck the country this month. On November 14 the southern hemisphere nation was hit by the huge quake around Kaikoura located around 600 miles north of the Christchurch on New Zealands South Island. Now for the first time scientists have been allowed into the area surrounding the quake dotted in the Hobbit-like idyllic green fields around Kaikoura concentrated in the North Culverden Basin and an area called Mount Lyford. The first reconnaissance team from the University of Canterbury (UC), in New Zealand comprised UC academics Professor Jarg Pettinga, Dr Clark Fenton, Dr Anekant Wandres, and Geology PhD students Alan Bischoff and Andrea Barrier was in the field quickly after last weeks huge quake. A second reconnaissance mission on Friday November 18 saw Prof Pettinga and Dr Fenton joined by Dr Kate Pedley and Dr Narges Khajavi. SEE CATERS COPY

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