Source parameters of large historical (1918-1962) earthquakes, South Island, New Zealand

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Dec 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999geoji.139..769d&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Journal International, Volume 139, Issue 3, pp. 769-794.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Earthquakes, Focal Mechanisms, New Zealand, Seismotectonics, South Island

Scientific paper

We present the results of body waveform modelling studies for 17 earthquakes of Mw>=5.7 occurring in the South Island, New Zealand region between 1918 and 1962, including the 1929 Ms=7.8 Buller earthquake, the largest earthquake to have occurred in the South Island this century. These studies confirm the concept of slip partitioning in the northern South Island between strike-slip faulting in southwestern Marlborough and reverse and strike-slip faulting in the Buller region, but indicate that the zone of reverse faulting is quite localized. In the central South Island, all historical earthquakes appear to be associated with strike-slip faulting, although recent (post-1991) reverse faulting events suggest that slip partitioning also occurs within this region. The difference between historical and recent seismicity in the central South Island may also reflect stress readjustment occurring in response to the 1717 ad rupture along the Alpine fault. Within the Fiordland region (southwestern South Island) none of the historical earthquakes appears to have occurred along the Australian/Pacific plate interface, but rather they are associated with complex deformation of the subducting plate as well as with deformation of the upper (Pacific) plate. Two earthquakes in the Puysegur Bank region south of the South Island suggest that strike-slip deformation east of the Puysegur Trench is playing a major role in the tectonics of the region.

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