Slow slip events in New Zealand

LM Wallace - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Continuously operating global positioning system sites in the North Island of New Zealand
have revealed a diverse range of slow motion earthquakes on the Hikurangi subduction …

Teleseismic constraints on the geological environment of deep episodic slow earthquakes in subduction zone forearcs: A review

P Audet, YH Kim - Tectonophysics, 2016 - Elsevier
More than a decade after the discovery of deep episodic slow slip and tremor, or slow
earthquakes, at subduction zones, much research has been carried out to investigate the …

Along‐strike variation and migration of long‐term slow slip events in the western Nankai subduction zone, Japan

R Takagi, N Uchida, K Obara - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We detected 24 long‐term slow slip events (SSEs) in the western Nankai subduction zone,
Japan, from 1996 to 2017 using a newly developed method: grid‐based determination of …

Subduction thermal regime, petrological metamorphism and seismicity under the Mariana arc

R Qu, W Zhu, Y Ji, C Xie, D Zeng, F Zhang - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Because of the steep subduction of a highly concave slab, researchers have characterized
megathrusts under the Marianas as among the coldest and curviest plate coupling interfaces …

Fluid flowrates and compositions and water–rock interaction in the Hikurangi margin forearc, New Zealand

AG Reyes, SM Ellis, BW Christenson, S Henrys - Chemical Geology, 2022 - Elsevier
The decrease in interseismic coupling and slip rate deficit from south to north, from locked to
slipping, of the Hikurangi margin is attributed from interpretation of geophysical data to more …

Spatiotemporal variations in slow earthquakes along the Mexican subduction zone

J Maury, S Ide, VM Cruz‐Atienza… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Slow earthquakes in Mexico have been investigated independently in different areas. Here
we review differences in tremor behavior and slow slip events along the entire subduction …

Thermal regime of the northern Hikurangi margin, New Zealand

A Antriasian, RN Harris, AM Tréhu… - Geophysical Journal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present 96 new seafloor heat flow determinations, made with a 3.5-m violin-bow probe
and collocated with seismic reflection profiles, from the northern Hikurangi margin on the …

Margin-wide variations in slab dehydration in Cascadia and their relationship to slow slip

M McLellan, P Audet, JC Rosas, C Currie - Lithos, 2022 - Elsevier
Slow slip events are observed in subduction zones globally, with a wide range of variations
in behaviour, including the periodicity and magnitude of events. These variations are …

Role of warm subduction in the seismological properties of the forearc mantle: An example from southwest Japan

C Lee, YH Kim - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
A warm slab thermal structure plays an important role in controlling seismic properties of the
slab and mantle wedge. Among warm subduction zones, most notably in southwest Japan …

Spatio-temporal variability in slab temperature within dynamic 3-D subduction models

V Turino, AF Holt - Geophysical Journal International, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Spatio-temporal variability in arc geochemistry and the conditions recorded by exhumed
rocks suggest subduction zone thermal structure evolves in time and along-strike. Although …