Earthquake-triggered landslides form lakes in New Zealand

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.