New Zealand’s Great Alpine Fault Spring Loaded Poem by Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)

historical patterns of past earthquakes
current research on great alpine fault
indicate alpine fault is ready to rupture

294 years since last great earthquake
current pressures in tectonic plates
make it probable cue next earthquake

will occur in present next six years
probabilities tell us how unsurprised
prepared shall be when it happens

further look further into distant future
view how less likely this earthquake becomes
because it is most likely to occur now!

for more than 400 years
between pressure ruptures
half the time it may go

but scary longer it goes
without due rupture
bigger quake must be

worse are quake consequences

expect New Zealand be prepared now
for major shake in Queenstown
Wanaka through parts of Central Otago