Hauraki Fault

The Hauraki Fault is a normal fault at the North Island of New Zealand. It is along the eastern side of the still tectonically active Hauraki Rift which could have a length up to and fairly likely. The recently identified but yet to be fully characterised 25 km long Te Puninga fault is presumably an intra-rift fault which augments the active displacement of the rift accommodated by the active intra-rift Kerepehi Fault. However shallow small earthquakes have been mapped to the presumed location of the Hauraki Fault.

Geology

The fault is inferred from the sharp transition to the east from the Firth of Thames and Hauraki Plains to the Coromandel and Kaimai Ranges with hot spring activity along this line.