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IUGG XXIV General Assembly July 2-13, 2007 Perugia, Italy<br />

(S) - <strong>IASPEI</strong> - International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's<br />

Interior<br />

JSS005 Oral Presentation 1918<br />

Variable paleoearthquake recurrence intervals arising from fault<br />

interactions, Taupo Rift, New Zealand<br />

Dr. Andy Nicol<br />

Geohazards solution Section GNS Science<br />

Paleoearthquakes at the Earth’s surface often produce variable recurrence intervals on individual faults.<br />

The origin of these variations and the extent to which they result from systematic processes is<br />

unresolved. To address this question we analyse displacements of geomorphic surfaces and of tephra<br />

horizons in 29 trenches excavated across normal faults in the Taupo Rift, . Each trench typically yields<br />

information on 3-6 paleoearthquakes that ruptured the surface over the last 16-23 kyr. Recurrence<br />

intervals on 25 faults, which are distributed across the 15 km wide rift and record ca. 30-40% of the<br />

total extension, were constrained by geochemical fingerprinting and radiocarbon dating of up to 12<br />

stratigraphic layers. Recurrence intervals range from ca.

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