Upper-Mantel Earthquakes in the Australia–Pacific Plate Boundary Zone and the Roots of the Alpine Fault

Carolin Morag Boese1, Emily Warren-Smith2, John Townend2, Tim A Stern3 and Simon Henry Lamb4, (1)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, (3)Victoria University of Wellington, School of Earth Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand, (4)Victoria University of Wellington, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand