Resolution and uncertainties in estimates of earthquake stress drop and energy release

RE Abercrombie - … Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Our models and understanding of the dynamics of earthquake rupture are based largely on
estimates of earthquake source parameters, such as stress drop and radiated seismic …

Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis at regional and national scales: State of the art and future challenges

MC Gerstenberger, W Marzocchi, T Allen… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Seismic hazard modeling is a multidisciplinary science that aims to forecast earthquake
occurrence and its resultant ground shaking. Such models consist of a probabilistic …

Hierarchical interlocked orthogonal faulting in the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence

ZE Ross, B Idini, Z Jia, OL Stephenson, M Zhong… - Science, 2019 - science.org
A nearly 20-year hiatus in major seismic activity in southern California ended on 4 July 2019
with a sequence of intersecting earthquakes near the city of Ridgecrest, California. This …

How satellite InSAR has grown from opportunistic science to routine monitoring over the last decade

J Biggs, TJ Wright - Nature Communications, 2020 - nature.com
In the past decade, a new generation of radar satellites have revolutionised our ability to
measure Earth's surface deformation globally and with unprecedented resolution. InSAR is …

The 2016 Kaikōura, New Zealand, earthquake: preliminary seismological report

A Kaiser, N Balfour, B Fry, C Holden… - Seismological …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT The 2016 M w 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake continued a notable decade of
damaging earthquake impacts in New Zealand. The effects were wide ranging across the …

Landslides triggered by the 14 November 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand

C Massey, D Townsend, E Rathje… - Bulletin of the …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The 14 November 2016 M w 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake generated more than 10,000
landslides over a total area of about 10, 000 km 2⁠, with the majority concentrated in a …

Highly variable coastal deformation in the 2016 MW7. 8 Kaikōura earthquake reflects rupture complexity along a transpressional plate boundary

KJ Clark, EK Nissen, JD Howarth, IJ Hamling… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Coseismic coastal deformation is often used to understand slip on offshore faults in large
earthquakes but in the 2016 MW 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake multiple faults ruptured across …

Dynamic viability of the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake cascade on weak crustal faults

T Ulrich, AA Gabriel, JP Ampuero, W Xu - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
We present a dynamic rupture model of the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake to unravel the
event's riddles in a physics-based manner and provide insight on the mechanical viability of …

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 …

Coseismic rupture process of the large 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes from joint inversion of geodetic and seismological observations

C Liu, T Lay, EE Brodsky… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract On 4 and 6 July 2019, two large strike‐slip earthquakes with W‐phase moment
magnitudes MWW 6.5 (foreshock) and MWW 7.1 (mainshock) struck the Eastern California …