The 2016 earthquake everyone saw. The disaster no one noticed. 🌊⚠️ 680 kilometers of ocean floor completely transformed. New high-resolution maps reveal what really happened beneath the waves during New Zealand’s Kaikōura earthquake. It changes everything we thought we knew about underwater landslides. 11 million cubic meters of seafloor vanished. Not from one massive collapse but from hundreds of tiny rapid failures happening at once. Those micro-slides unleashed a flow nearly a billion cubic

Kaikōura’s seabed shows promising signs of recovery just four years after the 2016 earthquake. The marine reserve was among the most biologically productive deep-seabed environments on the planet, but the 7.8 magnitude earthquake nearly completely wiped out some of its ecosystems. | Te Karere