Rapid deployment of seismic instruments around Wellington, NZ, following the November 13, 2016, magnitude 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake

该项目的目的是在新西兰北岛的惠灵顿地区部署10个临时地震台站。记录的地震活动将有助于限制发生在新西兰北部的凯库拉7.8级地震的破裂区域。2016年11月13日，在南岛。在该地区部署仪器的主要动机是地震可能向北迁移，或被位于惠灵顿地区下方的俯冲巨型逆冲断层和/或穿过新西兰首都周围地区的地壳断层所触发。应力变化计算表明，惠灵顿附近地区遭受了地震引起的压力增加。该计划是在2009-2011年SAHKE项目之前使用的地点部署临时地震仪器，重点是在原阵列的西南部分重新部署。这将产生平均站间距约12公里。我们将直接与惠灵顿维多利亚大学的合作伙伴一起制定选址计划，我们将利用他们与土地所有者的关系来促进许可。我们预计这些电台将运行6个月左右。一旦仪器被移走并运回美国，数据将被转换为标准存档格式，并在一个月内连同元数据一起提供给IRIS数据管理中心。

The purpose of this project is to deploy ten temporary seismic stations in the Wellington region on New Zealand's North Island. The recorded seismicity will help constraint the rupture area of the Kaikoura Mw= 7.8 earthquake that occurred in the northern part of New Zealand?s South Island on November 13, 2016. The main motivation for deploying instruments in this region is the potential for earthquakes migrating northwards onto or being triggered on the subduction megathrust located beneath the Wellington area and/or on crustal faults that cut through the region surrounding the capital of New Zealand.Stress change calculations show that the area near Wellington has been subjected to an increase in earthquake-causing stress. The plan is to deploy the temporary seismic instruments at sites previously used in the 2009-2011 SAHKE project, concentrating on redeploying in the southwestern part of the former array. This will yield an average station spacing of about 12 km. We will work directly with our collaborators in Victoria University of Wellington on the siting plan, and we will take advantage of their landowner connections for facilitating permitting. We expect to run the stations for about 6 months. Once the instruments are removed and shipped back to the U.S., the data will be converted to a standard archive format and provided to the IRIS Data Management Center, along with the metadata, within one month.