The present-day stress field of Australia

M Rajabi, M Tingay, O Heidbach, R Hillis… - Earth-Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
The unusual present-day crustal stress pattern of the Australian continent has been the
subject of scientific debate for over 25 years. The orientation of maximum horizontal present …

Continental transforms: A view from the Alpine Fault

RJ Norris, VG Toy - Journal of Structural Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
Continental transform faults are dominantly highly localized strike-slip shear zones
hundreds of kilometers long that accumulate tens to hundreds of kilometers of displacement …

Fault slip models of the 2010–2011 Canterbury, New Zealand, earthquakes from geodetic data and observations of postseismic ground deformation

J Beavan, M Motagh, EJ Fielding… - New Zealand Journal …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
We present source models derived from geodetic data for the four major Canterbury
earthquakes of 2010–2011. The September 2010 Darfield earthquake was largely right …

Slip in the 2010–2011 canterbury earthquakes, New Zealand

JR Elliott, EK Nissen, PC England… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The 3rd September 2010 Mw 7.1 Darfield and 21st February 2011 Mw 6.3 Christchurch
(New Zealand) earthquakes occurred on previously unknown faults. We use InSAR ground …

Evolution of the 2010–2012 Canterbury earthquake sequence

S Bannister, K Gledhill - New Zealand journal of geology and …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
We present an overview of the evolution of the 2010–2012 Canterbury earthquake
sequence, summarising the findings from a broad range of studies on the larger …

Three-dimensional variations in present-day tectonic stress along the Australia–Pacific plate boundary in New Zealand

J Townend, S Sherburn, R Arnold, C Boese… - Earth and Planetary …, 2012 - Elsevier
Using a newly compiled data set of 3424 focal mechanisms, we have estimated tectonic
stress parameters at 100 locations throughout central New Zealand in the largest study to …

Fault Location and Slip Distribution of the 22 February 2011 Mw 6.2 Christchurch, New Zealand, Earthquake from Geodetic Data

J Beavan, E Fielding, M Motagh… - Seismological …, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The 22 February (local time) MW~ 6.2 Christchurch earthquake occurred within the
aftershock region of the 4 September 2010 MW 7.1 Darfield (Canterbury) earthquake …

Fault orientation trumps fault maturity in controlling coseismic rupture characteristics of the 2021 Maduo earthquake

J Liu‐Zeng, Z Liu, X Liu, C Milliner… - AGU …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Fault maturity has been proposed to exert a first order control on earthquake rupture, yet
direct observations linking individual rupture to long‐term fault growth are rare. The 2021 …

Hybrid broadband ground motion simulation validation of small magnitude earthquakes in Canterbury, New Zealand

RL Lee, BA Bradley, PJ Stafford… - Earthquake …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Ground motion simulation validation is an important and necessary task toward establishing
the efficacy of physics-based ground motion simulations for seismic hazard analysis and …

Preliminary Geometry, Displacement, and Kinematics of Fault Ruptures in the Epicentral Region of the 2016  7.8 Kaikōura, New Zealand, Earthquake

A Nicol, N Khajavi, JR Pettinga… - Bulletin of the …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The M w 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake ruptured at least 17 faults for a distance of approximately
165 km across the New Zealand plate boundary zone in the northeastern South Island. In …