The central New Britain earthquake of May 10, 1985: tensional stresses in the frontal arc

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Sep 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987pepi...48...73m&link_type=abstract

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 48, Issue 1-2, p. 73-78.

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Aftershocks of the Ms 7.1 central New Britain earthquake show a shallow fault 0 to 20 km in depth, dipping steeply (75°-85°) toward the south and extending for about 50 km in an east-west direction. This is consistent with the focal mechanism which can be interpreted as left-lateral motion on a nodal plane oriented N100°E and dipping 80° to the south-southwest. The orientation of the principal stress axes indicates that this frontal arc region is under tensional stresses.

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