Towards understanding earthquake nucleation on a severely misoriented plate boundary fault, Alpine Fault, New Zealand

Carolyn J Boulton1, Dan Faulkner2, Michael John Allen2, Jamie Coussens3, Catriona Dorothy Menzies3 and Elisabetta Mariani4, (1)Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, (2)University of Liverpool, Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, Liverpool, L69, United Kingdom, (3)University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, (4)University of Liverpool, Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, Liverpool, United Kingdom