Spatiotemporal clustering of great earthquakes on a transform fault controlled by geometry

JD Howarth, NC Barth, SJ Fitzsimons… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
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 …

A plate boundary earthquake record from a wetland adjacent to the Alpine fault in New Zealand refines hazard estimates

UA Cochran, KJ Clark, JD Howarth, GP Biasi… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Discovery and investigation of millennial-scale geological records of past large earthquakes
improve understanding of earthquake frequency, recurrence behaviour, and likelihood of …

Interdependence of fault displacement rates and paleoearthquakes in an active rift

A Nicol, J Walsh, K Berryman, P Villamor - Geology, 2006 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Paleoearthquakes at Earth's surface often generate faults with variable displacement rates
over short time intervals (eg,< 18 ky). The nature and origin of these variations and the …

Normal fault interactions, paleoearthquakes and growth in an active rift

A Nicol, JJ Walsh, P Villamor, H Seebeck… - Journal of Structural …, 2010 - Elsevier
Fault interactions are an essential feature of all fault systems on timescales of individual
earthquakes to millions of years. We examine the role of these interactions in the …

High-resolution record of displacement accumulation on an active normal fault: implications for models of slip accumulation during repeated earthquakes

JM Bull, PM Barnes, G Lamarche, DJ Sanderson… - Journal of Structural …, 2006 - Elsevier
The spatial and temporal accumulation of slip from multiple earthquake cycles on active
faults is poorly understood. Here, we describe a methodology that can determine the time …

World's largest coseismic strike‐slip offset: The 1855 rupture of the Wairarapa Fault, New Zealand, and implications for displacement/length scaling of continental …

DW Rodgers, TA Little - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We used detailed microtopographic surveys to measure fault offset along the southern trace
of the Wairarapa fault, near Wellington, New Zealand, which most recently experienced a …

Major earthquakes occur regularly on an isolated plate boundary fault

KR Berryman, UA Cochran, KJ Clark, GP Biasi… - Science, 2012 - science.org
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 …

Surface-rupturing historical earthquakes in Australia and their environmental effects: New insights from re-analyses of observational data

TR King, M Quigley, D Clark - Geosciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
We digitize surface rupture maps and compile observational data from 67 publications on
ten of eleven historical, surface-rupturing earthquakes in Australia in order to analyze the …

Potentially active faults in the rapidly eroding landscape adjacent to the Alpine Fault, central Southern Alps, New Zealand

SC Cox, MW Stirling, F Herman, M Gerstenberger… - …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Geometric controls on cascading rupture of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake doublet

Y Zhang, X Tang, D Liu, T Taymaz, T Eken, R Guo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
How fault geometry controls the rupture propagation and segmentation of a strike-slip event
is an open question. Deciphering the relationship between the geometric fault complexity …