Surface rupture during the 2010 Mw 7.1 darfield(canterbury) earthquake: Implications for fault rupture dynamics and seismic-hazard analysis

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-58

  Quigley, M ^a   Van Dissen, R ^b   Litchfield, N ^b   Villamor, P ^b   Duffy, B ^a   Barrell, D ^b   Furlong, K ^c   Stahl, T ^a   Bilderback, E ^a   Noble, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; CO-SEISMIC DISPLACEMENT; DATA SETS; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT RUPTURES; FAULT SYSTEM; HIGH-ACCURACY MEASUREMENTS; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; NEW ZEALAND; STATIC STRESS; STRIKE-SLIP EARTHQUAKES; SURFACE RUPTURES;

HAZARDS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

CANTERBURY [SOUTH ISLAND]; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 84855430329     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32528.1     Document Type: Article

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