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The 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake was one of the largest earthquakes in New Zealand’s historical record, and it generated the most significant local source tsunami to affect New Zealand since 1947. There are many unusual features of this earthquake from a tsunami perspective: the epicentre was well inland of the coast, multiple faults were involved in the rupture, and the greatest tsunami damage...
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