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DOI	10.1016/j.tecto.2019.228205
	Detailed spatiotemporal analysis of the tectonic stress regime near the central Alpine Fault, New Zealand
	Michailos K.; Warren-Smith E.; Savage M.K.; Townend J.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	00401951
卷号	775
英文摘要	We construct a new data set of 845 focal mechanisms derived from microseismicity recorded between late 2008 and early 2017, to investigate the state of stress near the central Alpine Fault, a major obliquely convergent plate boundary fault. We obtain an average maximum horizontal compressive stress orientation, SHmax, of 121 ± 11°, which is uniform to first-order along the length of the central Southern Alps. We also make use of the local magnitudes of the earthquakes with focal mechanisms to examine the spatial patterns of seismic moment release and obtain a relatively uniform cumulative seismic moment release distribution adjacent to the central Alpine Fault, which appears to be independent of both the perpendicular and parallel distances to the fault. We observe an average angle between SHmax and the Alpine Fault of 66°, which is consistent with previous observations in the northern and southern sections of the Alpine Fault. This result implies that central Alpine Fault is not optimally oriented for reactivation. Detailed temporal investigations using two different approaches did not show any systematic change of the stress parameters with time. We also examine the distribution of the shear to normal stress ratio on the fault and do not observe any significant spatial variation along the Alpine Fault. This lack of variation combined with the high angle between the fault strike and SHmax implies that the fault is unfavourably oriented for slip. © 2019 Elsevier B.V.
关键词	Alpine Fault Focal mechanisms New Zealand Southern Alps Stress inversion
英文关键词	Compressive stress; Earthquakes; Spatial distribution; Alpine Faults; Focal mechanism; New zealand; Southern Alps; Stress inversion; Faulting; data set; earthquake magnitude; focal mechanism; plate boundary; seismic moment; seismicity; spatiotemporal analysis; stress analysis; tectonics; Alpine Fault Zone; New Zealand; South Island; Southern Alps
语种	英语
来源期刊	Tectonophysics
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/207831
作者单位	School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand; GNS Science, PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt, 5040, New Zealand
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Michailos K.,Warren-Smith E.,Savage M.K.,et al. Detailed spatiotemporal analysis of the tectonic stress regime near the central Alpine Fault, New Zealand[J],2020,775.
APA	Michailos K.,Warren-Smith E.,Savage M.K.,&Townend J..(2020).Detailed spatiotemporal analysis of the tectonic stress regime near the central Alpine Fault, New Zealand.Tectonophysics,775.
MLA	Michailos K.,et al."Detailed spatiotemporal analysis of the tectonic stress regime near the central Alpine Fault, New Zealand".Tectonophysics 775(2020).