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dc.creatorFry, Bill
dc.creatorBannister, Stephen
dc.creatorBeavan, John
dc.creatorBland, Lara
dc.creatorBradley, Brendon
dc.creatorCox, Simon
dc.creatorCousins, Jim
dc.creatorGale, Nora
dc.creatorHancox, Graham
dc.creatorHolden, Caroline
dc.creatorJongens, Richard
dc.creatorPower, William
dc.creatorPrasetya, Gegar
dc.creatorReyners, Martin
dc.creatorRistau, John
dc.creatorRobinson, Russell
dc.creatorSamsonov, Sergey
dc.creatorWilson, Kate
dc.creatorGeoNet team
dc.date2010-03-31
dc.identifierhttps://bulletin.nzsee.org.nz/index.php/bnzsee/article/view/288
dc.identifier10.5459/bnzsee.43.1.24-40
dc.descriptionThe Mw 7.6 Dusky Sound earthquake of July 15th, 2009, was the largest magnitude earthquake in New Zealand since the devastating 1931 Hawke’s Bay event (Ms 7.8). The earthquake was sufficiently large to generate at least a 2.3 m wave at Passage Point. Despite its large magnitude, this event resulted in relatively minimal damage when compared to worldwide events of a similar size. This can be explained as a fortunate combination of the sparse population of the area and the specific physical characteristics of the earthquake. Centroid Moment Tensor (CMT) solutions define the rupture surface as a low-angle plane and finite fault inversions confirm the slip occurred on the interface between the eastward-subducting Australian plate and overriding Pacific plate, initiating at about 30 km depth and rupturing upward and southwestward to about 15 km depth. The oceanward rupture directivity likely contributed to the lower intensity of measured ground motion than might be expected for such a large, shallow event. The amount of radiated seismic energy from the earthquake was relatively small, and far fewer landslides were triggered from this event than from the 2003 Mw 7.2 Fiordland event.en-US
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dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNew Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineeringen-US
dc.relationhttps://bulletin.nzsee.org.nz/index.php/bnzsee/article/view/288/274
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2010 Bill Fry, Stephen Bannister, John Beavan, Lara Bland, Brendon Bradley, Simon Cox, Jim Cousins, Nora Gale, Graham Hancox, Caroline Holden, Richard Jongens, William Power, Gegar Prasetya, Martin Reyners, John Ristau, Russell Robinson, Sergey Samsonov, Kate Wilson, GeoNet teamen-US
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en-US
dc.sourceBulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering; Vol 43 No 1 (2010); 24-40en-US
dc.source2324-1543
dc.source1174-9857
dc.titleThe Mw 7.6 Dusky Sound earthquake of 2009en-US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
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dc.typeArticleen-US


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