Slow slip events in New Zealand

LM Wallace - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2020‏ - annualreviews.org
Continuously operating global positioning system sites in the North Island of New Zealand
have revealed a diverse range of slow motion earthquakes on the Hikurangi subduction …

Toward an integrative geological and geophysical view of Cascadia subduction zone earthquakes

MAL Walton, LM Staisch, T Dura… - Annual Review of …, 2021‏ - annualreviews.org
The Cascadia subduction zone (CSZ) is an exceptional geologic environment for recording
evidence of land-level changes, tsunamis, and ground motion that reveals at least 19 great …

Calibrating the marine turbidite palaeoseismometer using the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake

JD Howarth, AR Orpin, Y Kaneko, LJ Strachan… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Turbidite palaeoseismology has produced arguably the most comprehensive multimillennial
scale records of subduction-zone earthquakes but is underpinned by techniques that are …

Variation in slip behaviour along megathrusts controlled by multiple physical properties

D Bassett, DJ Shillington, LM Wallace, JL Elliott - Nature Geoscience, 2025‏ - nature.com
Megathrusts, faults at the plate interface in subduction zones, exhibit substantial
spatiotemporal variability in their slip behaviour. Many previous attempts to discern the …

The New Zealand paleoseismic site database, version 1.0

NJ Litchfield, J Humphrey… - Seismological …, 2024‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Site‐specific paleoseismic data are key datasets underpinning the parameterization of large
(M w∼ 7+) earthquakes on faults in seismic hazard models. For the New Zealand National …

Time-dependent recurrence of strong earthquake shaking near plate boundaries: A lake sediment perspective

J Moernaut - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Accurate probabilistic seismic hazard analysis requires a good knowledge of the recurrence
parameters of the strongest earthquakes in a region. Due to the typical short temporal span …

The occurrence and hazards of great subduction zone earthquakes

EA Wirth, VJ Sahakian, LM Wallace… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Subduction zone earthquakes result in some of the most devastating natural hazards on
Earth. Knowledge of where great (moment magnitude M≥ 8) subduction zone earthquakes …

Upper Plate and Subduction Interface Deformation Models in the 2022 Revision of the Aotearoa New Zealand National Seismic Hazard Model

RJ Van Dissen, KM Johnson… - Bulletin of the …, 2024‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
As part of the 2022 revision of the Aotearoa New Zealand National Seismic Hazard Model
(NZ NSHM 2022), deformation models were constructed for the upper plate faults and …

A maximum rupture model for the central and southern Cascadia subduction zone—reassessing ages for coastal evidence of megathrust earthquakes and tsunamis

AR Nelson, CB DuRoss, RC Witter, HM Kelsey… - Quaternary Science …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
A new history of great earthquakes (and their tsunamis) for the central and southern
Cascadia subduction zone shows more frequent (17 in the past 6700 yr) megathrust …

Late Holocene coseismic uplift of the Kaikōura coast, New Zealand

A Howell, KJ Clark - Geosphere, 2022‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The complex 2016 MW 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake ruptured> 20 faults and caused
highly variable uplift and subsidence of an~ 110 km stretch of coastline. The earthquake …