학술논문

Surface rupture of the Hundalee Fault during the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake
Document Type
Academic Journal
Source
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 108(3B):1540-1555
Subject
19|Seismology
Australasia
digital terrain models
earthquakes
faults
global navigation satellite systems
Global Positioning System
great earthquakes
Hundalee Fault
InSAR
Kaikoura
Kaikoura earthquake 2016
Marlborough New Zealand
New Zealand
radar methods
remote sensing
rupture
SAR
South Island
Language
English
ISSN
0037-1106
Abstract
The Hundalee fault is one of at least 20 faults that ruptured during the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake in the northeast of the South Island of New Zealand. Here, we document a 12-km onshore section of the Hundalee fault that exhibited surface rupture from this event. To the northeast of our observations, the fault crosses the coast, and independent seabed surveys show that the 2016 rupture continued at least 2 km offshore. No surface rupture was observed across the southwestern section of the Hundalee fault, which crosses hilly vegetated terrain and poorly consolidated valley-floor sediment. However, previous Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) analyses suggest that a 9-km-long section of the fault did rupture. Hence, the minimum length of the 2016 rupture along the Hundalee fault is 23 km. Field measurements indicate oblique dextral-reverse slip along northeast-trending Hundalee fault sections and reverse-sinistral slip along north to north-northeast-trending sections. This is consistent with the regional principal horizontal shortening direction. Maximum vertical and horizontal offset measurements are 2.5±0.5 and 3.7±0.5 m, respectively. The discontinuous and irregular surface ruptures we observed are characteristic of a structurally immature fault, yet previous geological mapping indicates that the Hundalee fault is a regionally significant fault with >1-km late Cenozoic throw. Furthermore, a 60-m-wide sequence of fault rocks exposed by the rupture indicates that slip has localized into