Discovery and investigation of millennial-scale geological records of past large earthquakes
improve understanding of earthquake frequency, recurrence behaviour, and likelihood of …

Potentially active faults are exposed in the steep glaciated topography of the central
Southern Alps, New Zealand, immediately adjacent to the Alpine Fault plate boundary. Four …

Minor changes in geometry along the length of mature strike-slip faults may act as
conditional barriers to earthquake rupture, terminating some and allowing others to pass …

The Hope fault is the most active and southernmost splay of the Marlborough fault system in
the northern South Island of New Zealand. The fault consists of five geometrically defined …

A sedimentary sequence that was highly sensitive to fault rupture–driven changes in water
level and sediment supply has been used to extract a continuous record of 22 large …

Paleoseismic trenches excavated at two sites reveal ages of late Holocene earthquakes
along the Conway segment of the Hope fault, the fastest‐slipping fault within the …

Strata and fault relationships revealed in five trenches excavated across the recent trace of
the Alpine fault at the Haast, Okuru, and Turnbull Rivers, South Westland, New Zealand …

Detailed paleoseismic investigation of the Alpine Fault, South Island, New Zealand, has
been undertaken at locations which bracket the central and north sections of the fault …

The scarcity of long geological records of major earthquakes, on different types of faults,
makes testing hypotheses of regular versus random or clustered earthquake recurrence …

Understanding temporal patterns of surface‐rupturing earthquakes is critical for seismic
hazard assessment. We examine these patterns by collating elapsed time and recurrence …