Hope Fault, South Island, New Zealand in 1888.

Result of a magnitude 7.3 earthquake on the Hope Fault, South Island, New Zealand in 1888. During the earthquake, the two sides of the fault slid over two meters past each other with little or no vertical displacement. This type of faulting is called strike-slip faulting and this was one of the first places it was recognized.

If you look carefully you can see the offset of the fencing.

(Source: http://www.civil.canterbury.ac.nz/postgrads/cfrancois.html. Photographer: Alexander McKay.)

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