Shallow subduction tectonics in the Raukumara Peninsula, New Zealand, as illuminated by earthquake focal mechanisms

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 104, Issue B2, 1999, Pages 3025-3034

  Reyners, Martin ^a   McGinty, Peter ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; FOCAL MECHANISM; SUBDUCTION;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; RAUKUMARA PENINSULA;

EID: 0033540637     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998jb900081     Document Type: Article

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