The Southern Alps is a mountain range located in the South Island of New Zealand. The range stretches for approximately 500 kilometers along the western side of the island, and it is the highest ...

Changes in water levels beneath Earth’s surface caused by glacier snowmelt and rainfall could be responsible for triggering small but frequent earthquakes in New Zealand’s central Southern Alps, ...

So much so that we've called a bunch of other mountain ranges all over the world the Alps as well (Southern Alps, Oregon Alps, etc.). But just why are these mountains so important? And how did the ...