It's Our Fault: Better Defining Earthquake Risk in Wellington

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University of Canterbury. Civil and Natural Resources Engineering
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2010
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Van Dissen, R.
Barnes, P.
Beavan, J.
Cousins, J.
Dellow, G.
Francois-Holden, C.
Fry, B.
Langridge, R.
Litchfield, N.
Little, T.
Abstract

The goal of the It’s Our Fault programme is to see Wellington positioned to become a more resilient city through a comprehensive study of the likelihood of large Wellington earthquakes, the effects of these earthquakes, and their impacts on humans and the built environment. Some key results to date include better definition and constraint on: 1) faulting in Cook Strait, 2) timing and size of past ruptures on the Wellington, Wairarapa, Wairau, and Ohariu faults, 3) state of locking of the subduction interface, 4) fault interactions throughout the region, in particular rupture statistics of the Wellington-Wairarapa fault-pair, and 5) conditional probability of rupture of the Wellington Fault. Current investigations are focused on characterisation of earthquake ground shaking behaviour in Wellington City and the Hutt Valley.

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Van Dissen, R., Barnes, P., Beavan, J., Cousins, J., Dellow, G., Francois-Holden, C., Fry, B., Langridge, R., Litchfield, N., Little, T., McVerry, G., Ninis, D., Rhoades, D., Robinson, R., Saunders, W., Villamor, P., Wilson, K., Barker, P., Berryman, K., Benites, R., Brackley, H., Bradley, B.A., Carne, R., Cochran, U., Hemphill-Haley, M., King, A., Lamarche, G., Palmer, N., Perrin, N., Pondard, N., Rattenberg, M., Read, S., Semmens, S., Smith, E., Stephenson, B., Wallace, L., Webb, T., Zhao, J. (2010) It's Our Fault: Better Defining Earthquake Risk in Wellington. Auckland, New Zealand: 11th IAEG Congress, 5-10 Sep 2010.
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Fields of Research::37 - Earth sciences::3706 - Geophysics::370609 - Seismology and seismic exploration
Field of Research::09 - Engineering::0905 - Civil Engineering
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