John Townend

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Victoria University of Wellington

New Zealand

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Dr. John Townend is a Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His research primarily focuses on seismicity, earthquake dynamics, and geophysical responses related to volcanic activity. Notable recent articles include studies on rainfall-triggered seismicity in the Central Southern Alps and distributed acoustic sensing along the Alpine Fault. His work contributes significantly to the understanding of seismic hazards and volcanic responses in the region.

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Fault slip and ground-shaking in the coming Alpine Fault earthquake

Open Date: 2021-01-01

Close Date: 2024-01-01

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Semi-conducting fault zones: High-resolution analysis of fault segmentation and rupture

Open Date: 2019-01-01

Close Date: 2022-01-01

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The straw that didn’t break the camel’s back: what variations in stressing-rate can faults withstand?

Open Date: 2018-01-01

Close Date: 2021-01-01

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New Optical Sensors for Geophysical Applications

Open Date: 2017-01-01

Close Date: 2020-01-01

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New Optical Sensors for Geophysical Applications

Open Date: 2016-07-01

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K. Michailos

SWITZERLAND

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Rupert Sutherland

Victoria University of Wellington

NEW ZEALAND

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Julien Collot

Université de Bretagne Occidentale

FRANCE

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Bryant Chow

Assistant Professor

University of Alaska Fairbanks

UNITED STATES

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Voon Hui Lai

Australian National University

AUSTRALIA

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Nicolas Oestreicher

WSL-Institut für Schnee- und Lawinenforschung SLF

SWITZERLAND

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Carolyn Boulton

Lecturer

Victoria University of Wellington

NEW ZEALAND

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Finnigan Illsley-Kemp

Dr. at School of Geography, Environment & Earth Sciences

Victoria University of Wellington

NEW ZEALAND

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Andrew Gorman

University of Otago

NEW ZEALAND

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Yoshihiro Kaneko

准教授 / Associate Professor

Kyoto University

JAPAN

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Calum John Chamberlain

Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences

Victoria University of Wellington

NEW ZEALAND

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Stephen Bannister

NEW ZEALAND

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William Frank

Assistant Professor

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

UNITED STATES

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Martha K. Savage

Victoria University of Wellington

NEW ZEALAND

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Temporal Evolution of Seismicity in the Central Southern Alps, New Zealand: Evidence for Rainfall‐Triggered Seismicity

The South Island Seismology at the Speed of Light Experiment (SISSLE): Distributed Acoustic Sensing Across and Along the Alpine Fault, South Westland, New Zealand

Erratum to Introduction to the BSSA Special Issue and SRL Focus Section on Seismic Hazard Models

Erratum to Introduction to the BSSA Special Issue and SRL Focus Section on Seismic Hazard Models

Low‐Frequency Earthquakes Downdip of Deep Slow Slip Beneath the North Island of New Zealand

Stress State and Earthquake Triggering on the Outer Rise of the Southern Vanuatu Subduction Zone, Southern New Caledonia

Unsupervised Coherent Noise Removal From Seismological Distributed Acoustic Sensing Data

Evidence From Intermediate‐Depth Earthquakes of Slab‐Derived Fluids Beneath the Taupō Volcanic Zone

The Response of Taupō Volcano to the M7.8 Kaikōura Earthquake

Introduction to the BSSA Special Issue and SRL Focus Section on Seismic Hazard Models

Evidence for Deeply Subducted Lower‐Plate Seamounts at the Hikurangi Subduction Margin: Implications for Seismic and Aseismic Behavior

Heterogeneity in Microseismicity and Stress Near Rupture‐Limiting Section Boundaries Along the Late‐Interseismic Alpine Fault

Earthquakes and Seismic Hazard in Southern New Caledonia, Southwest Pacific

The 2001 Taupō Fault Belt Seismicity as Evidence of Magma‐Tectonic Interaction at Taupō Volcano

Strong Upper‐Plate Heterogeneity at the Hikurangi Subduction Margin (North Island, New Zealand) Imaged by Adjoint Tomography

Illuminating the Pre‐, Co‐, and Post‐Seismic Phases of the 2016 M7.8 Kaikōura Earthquake With 10 Years of Seismicity

3D Active Source Seismic Imaging of the Alpine Fault Zone and the Whataroa Glacial Valley in New Zealand

Thermal properties of the hanging wall of the central Alpine Fault, New Zealand

A Repeating Earthquake Catalog From 2003 to 2020 for the Raukumara Peninsula, Northern Hikurangi Subduction Margin, New Zealand

An automated workflow for adjoint tomography—waveform misfits and synthetic inversions for the North Island, New Zealand

Collaborators (14)

K. Michailos

Rupert Sutherland

Julien Collot

Bryant Chow

Voon Hui Lai

Nicolas Oestreicher

Carolyn Boulton

Finnigan Illsley-Kemp

Andrew Gorman

Yoshihiro Kaneko

Calum John Chamberlain

Stephen Bannister

William Frank

Martha K. Savage

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