Structure and paleoearthquake records of active submarine faults, Cook Strait, New Zealand: Implications for fault interactions, stress loading, and seismic hazard

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Pondard, Nicolas ^a,b   Barnes, Philip M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b Towers Watson   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; PALEOSEISMICITY; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRESS CHANGE; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

COOK STRAIT; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 78649739084     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007781     Document Type: Article

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