The 2003 Mw 7.2 Fiordland subduction earthquake, New Zealand: Aftershock distribution, main shock fault plane and static stress changes on the overlying Alpine Fault

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 579-592

  Mcginty, Peter ^a,b   Robinson, Russell ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b Statistics New Zealand   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Aftershocks; Alpine Fault; Fiordland; Induced stress; New Zealand; Stress inversion

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT; MODELING; P-WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; STRESS FIELD; SUBDUCTION; THRUST;

AUSTRALASIA; FIORDLAND; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHLAND;

EID: 34247218748     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03336.x     Document Type: Article

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