Rupturing of the Awatere Fault during the 1848 October 16 Marlborough earthquake, New Zealand: Historical and present day evidence

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 387-399

  Grapes, Rodney ^a   Little, Timothy ^a   Downes, Gaye ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

1848 earthquake; Awatere Fault; Dextral and vertical displacement; Earthquake magnitude; Historical data

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SLIP; NEOTECTONICS; PALEOSEISMICITY;

AWATERE VALLEY; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 0032413074     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.1998.9514818     Document Type: Article

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