USGS · 70176177
Earthquake-triggered landslides form lakes in New Zealand
Abstract
Eleven small lakes were formed by landslides caused by the 1929 Buller earthquake in New Zealand; four others were formed by other historic earthquakes in this country. At least nine other New Zealand lakes are dammed by landslides and were probably formed by prehistoric earthquakes. Earthquake-dammed lakes could provide an estimate of paleoseimicity for the past few hundred or thousand years.
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1981. Earthquake-triggered landslides form lakes in New Zealand. https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/70176177
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