World's largest coseismic strike-slip offset: The 1855 rupture of the Wairarapa Fault, New Zealand, and implications for displacement/length scaling of continental earthquakes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 111, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Rodgers, D W ^a   Little, T A ^b  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; DISPLACEMENT; FAULT ZONE; RUPTURE; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; WAIRARAPA;

COLUMBA;

EID: 34547900000     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JB004065     Document Type: Article

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