Contest 2012 - Final Reports
New Zealand Natural Hazards
- Great megathrust earthquake hazard (Hayward)
- Optimization and testing of hybrid earthquake forecasting models (Rhoades)
- Matauranga Maori for volcanic hazard (Procter)
- Improving tsunami warnings and real time hazard assessment in New Zealand’s ports and harbours (Power)
- Alpine Fault Earthquake Recurrence (Clark & Cochran)
- Submarine landslide-tsunami hazard (Mountjoy)
- Storm-tide hazards in estuaries (Bell & Stephens)
- Wind speed hill shape multipliers (Revell)
- EBF demand and repair (Clifton)
- Residual capacity & repairing options - Draft (Pampanin)
Lessons Learned from Christchurch
- Economic lessons from Christchurch (Timar) - Updated June 2016
- Groundwater and liquefaction (Cox)
- Reinforced concrete walls (Henry)
- Retrofit solutions for heritage URM buildings (Ingham)
- Active submarine faulting and earthquake potential: North Canterbury & Marlborough (Barnes)
- Quantifying contributions to seismic hazard (Kaiser & Bradley)
- Faster rebuilds with MRCGE (Cronin)
Great megathrust earthquake hazard
Dr Bruce Hayward /Geomarine Research / $360,000 GST ex
- See also Hayward et al (2015) Subsidence-driven environmental change in three Holocene embayments of Ahuriri Inlet, Hikurangi Subduction Margin, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, available online
- See also Hayward et al (2016) Salt-marsh foraminiferal record of 10 large Holocene (last 7500 yr) earthquakes on a subducting plate margin, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. Geol Soc America Bull, v. 128, no. 5-6, p. 896-915, available online
Optimization and testing of hybrid earthquake forecasting models
Dr David Rhoades / GNS Science / $200,000 GST ex
Matauranga Maori for volcanic hazard
Dr Jonathan Procter / Massey University / $270,000 GST ex
Improving tsunami warnings and real time hazard assessment in New Zealand’s ports and harbours
Dr William Power / GNS Science / $600,000 GST ex
Alpine Fault Earthquake Recurrence
Drs Kate Clark & Ursula Cochran / GNS Science / $311,000 GST ex
See the video from their recent public seminar (♦ Link).
Submarine landslide-tsunami hazard
Drs Joshu Mountjoy & William Power/ NIWA & GNS Science / $440,000 GST ex
- See also Power, W., Mountjoy, J., Lane, E., Popinet, S., Wang, X. (2016) Assessing landslide-tsunami hazard in submarine canyons, using the cook strait canyon system as an example Science of Tsunami Hazards, 35 (3), pp. 145-166.
Storm-tide hazards in estuaries
Drs Rob Bell & Scott Stephens / NIWA / $300,000 GST ex
Wind speed hill shape multipliers
Dr Michael Revell / NIWA / $420,000 GST ex
EBF demand and repair
A/Prof Charles Clifton / University of Auckland / $299,000 GST ex
Residual capacity & repairing options
Professor Stefano Pampanin / University of Canterbury / $450,000 GST ex
- See also Elwood K et al (2016) Draft Framework for Assessing Residual Capacity of Earthquake-Damaged Concrete Buildings, Paper No. O-12, New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering Conference, 1-3 April 2016, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Economic lessons from Christchurch
Dr Levente Timar / Motu, GNS Science / $450,000 GST ex
Working papers ahead of final report -
- 14-08. Natural selection: Firm performance following the Canterbury earthquakes. 14-08. August 2014. (♦ Link)
- 14-13. That sinking feeling: The changing price of disaster risk following an earthquake. 14-13. Nov 2014. (♦ Link)
- 15-19. Before a Fall: Impacts of earthquake regulation and building codes on the commercial building market. Oct 2015 (♦ Link)
- 16-07. Labour market dynamics following a regional disaster. May 2016 (♦ Link)
Did artesian groundwater contribute to Christchurch liquefaction and lateral spreading damage?
Dr Simon Cox / GNS Science / $490,000 GST ex
Reinforced concrete walls
Dr Richard Henry / University of Auckland / $230,000 GST ex
Retrofit solutions for heritage URM buildings
Professor Jason Ingham / University of Auckland / $300,000 GST ex
- See also 'Seismic Assessment and Retrofit of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings' - A website repository developed by Jason Ingham containing research outputs funded by the Platform.
Active submarine faulting and earthquake potential: North Canterbury & Marlborough
Dr Philip Barnes / NIWA / $280,000 GST ex
- See also 'Active Submarine Faulting and Earthquake Potential: North Canterbury and Marlborough' - Bartholomew et al (2014) Tectonics, 33 (7), pp. 1201-1218.
Quantifying contributions to seismic hazard
Dr Anna Kaiser & A/Prof Brendon Bradley / GNS Science & Univ Canterbury / $500,000
- Earthquake Ground Motions: Learning from the Canterbury Earthquakes - NHRP 'Natural Hazards 2013'
- Oth, A.; Kaiser, A.E. 2014 Pure and Applied Geophysics 171(10): 2767-2782.
- McGann, Bradley, Wotherspoon & Cox (2015) Comparison of a Christchurch-specific CPT-VS correlation and Vs derived from surface wave analysis for strong motion station velocity characterisation. Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 48 (2), pp. 81-91.
Faster rebuilds with MRCGE
Professor Shane Cronin / University of Auckland / $250,000 GST ex
- See also McDonald GW, Cronin SJ, Kim J.-H, Smith NJ, Murray CA, Procter JN (2017) Computable general equilibrium modelling of economic impacts from volcanic event scenarios at regional and national scale, Mt. Taranaki, New Zealand. Bulletin of Volcanology, 79:87
Last updated 19 April 2018