Ecological tipping points are the<span> points where environmental problems reach threshold level causing irreversible shifts in the behavior of natural systems. These are also called thresholds where the biodiversity changes.</span>
New Zealand has had a three decade anti-nuclear campaign so it's safe to assume they are.
I think:
C. Small middle sections of the country
This is why S-waves arrive as secondary waves at the Earth's surface. There is another importantdifference between P-waves and S-waves. Although both can pass through solid rock, only P-waves can also pass through gases and liquids.