Peer reviewed scientific articles

1. Kearse, J., Stern, T., Hamling, I., Lamb, S., Hreinsdóttir, S. (2025). InSAR measurement of vertical land motion in New Zealand cities, and implications for sea-level rise projections. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 1-22, https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2025.2470435 [free access] 

2. Little, T. A., Kearse, J., Kaneko, Y., & Van Dissen, R. (2025). Geometry of curved slickenlines as a function of rupture direction, asperity durability and coseismic roughening of fault surfaces. Journal of Structural Geology, 190, 105291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2024.10529  [free access]

3. Barth, N. C., Kearse, J. R., Little, T. A., & Van Dissen, R. J. (2024). Rupture direction of paleoearthquakes on the Alpine Fault, New Zealand, as recorded by curved slickenlines. Geology, 52(12), 917-921. https://doi.org/10.1130/G52543.1 [free access] 

4. Kearse, J., Kaneko, Y., Nozuka, Y., Milliner, C., Hsu, Y. J., & Avouac, J. P. (2024). Strong asymmetry in near-fault ground velocity during an oblique strike-slip earthquake revealed by waveform particle motions and dynamic rupture simulations. Seismica, 3(2), 1-12 https://doi.org/10.26443/seismica.v3i2.1155 [free access] 

5. Aoki, T., Kaneko, Y., & Kearse, J. (2023). Dynamic simulations of coseismic slickenlines on non-planar and rough faults. Geophysical Journal International, 233(2), 1124-1143. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggac501 [free access]

6. Langridge, R. M., Clark, K. J., Almond, P., Baize, S., Howell, A., Kearse, J., Morgenstern, R., Duess, K., Nissen, E., Garcia-Mayordomo, J., & Amos, C. (2023). Late Holocene earthquakes on the Papatea Fault and its role in past earthquake cycles, Marlborough, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 66(2), 317-341. https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2022.2117829 [free access]

7. Morris, P., Little, T., Van Dissen, R., Hemphill-Haley, M., Kearse, J., Hill, M., Vermeer, J., & Norton, K. (2023). A revised paleoseismological record of late Holocene ruptures on the Kekerengu Fault following the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 66(2), 342-363. https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2022.2059766 [free access]

8. Morris, P., Little, T., Van Dissen, R., Hill, M., Hemphill-Haley, M., Kearse, J., & Norton, K. (2023). Evaluating 9 m of near-surface transpressional displacement during the Mw 7.8 2016 Kaikōura earthquake: re-excavation of a pre-earthquake paleoseismic trench, Kekerengu Fault, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 66(2), 244-262. https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2021.1954958 [free access]

9. Little, T. A., Morris, P., Hill, M. P., Kearse, J., Van Dissen, R. J., Manousakis, J., Zekkos, D., & Howell, A. (2021). Coseismic deformation of the ground during large-slip strike-slip ruptures: Finite evolution of “mole tracks”. Geosphere, 17(4), 1170-1192. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02336.1 [free access]

10. Macklin, C., Kaneko, Y., & Kearse, J. (2021). Coseismic slickenlines record the emergence of multiple rupture fronts during a surface-breaking earthquake. Tectonophysics, 808, 228834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.228834 [free access]

11. Kearse, J., & Kaneko, Y. (2020). On‐fault geological fingerprint of earthquake rupture direction. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(9), e2020JB019863. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB019863 [free access]

12. Howell, A., Nissen, E., Stahl, T., Clark, K., Kearse, J., Van Dissen, R., Villamor, P., Langridge, R., & Jones, K. (2020). Three‐dimensional surface displacements during the 2016 MW 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake (New Zealand) from photogrammetry‐derived point clouds. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(1), e2019JB018739. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB018739 [free access]

13. Kearse, J., Kaneko, Y., Little, T., & Van Dissen, R. (2019). Curved slickenlines preserve direction of rupture propagation. Geology, 47(9), 838-842. https://doi.org/10.1130/G46563.1 [free access]

14. Van Dissen, R. J., Stahl, T., King, A., Pettinga, J. R., Fenton, C., Little, T. A., Litchfield, N., Stirling, M., Langridge, R., Nicol, A., Kearse, J., Barrell, D., & Villamor, P. (2018). Impacts of surface fault rupture on residential structures during the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand. https://doi.org/10.5459/bnzsee.52.1.1-22 [free access]

15. Little, T. A., Van Dissen, R., Kearse, J., Norton, K., Benson, A., & Wang, N. (2018). Kekerengu fault, New Zealand: Timing and size of Late Holocene surface ruptures. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 108(3B), 1556-1572. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120170152 [free access]

16. Kearse, J., Little, T. A., Van Dissen, R. J., Barnes, P. M., Langridge, R., Mountjoy, J., Ries, W., Villamor, P., Clark, K., Benson, A., Lamarche, G., Hill, M., & Hemphill‐Haley, M. (2018). Onshore to offshore ground‐surface and seabed rupture of the Jordan–Kekerengu–Needles fault network during the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 108(3B), 1573-1595. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120170304 [free access]

17. Litchfield, N. J., Villamor, P., Van Dissen, R. J., Nicol, A., Barnes, P., Barrell, D. J. A., Pettinga, J., Langridge, R., Little, T., Mountjoy, J., Ries, W., Rowland, J., Fenton, C., Stirling, M., Kearse, J., Berryman, K., Cochran, U., Clark, K. J., Hemphill-Haley, M., Khajavi, N., Zinke, R. (2018). Surface rupture of multiple crustal faults in the 2016 M w 7.8 Kaikōura, New Zealand, Earthquake. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 108(3B), 1496-1520. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120170300 [free access]

18. Stirling, M. W., Litchfield, N. J., Villamor, P., Van Dissen, R. J., Nicol, A., Pettinga, J., Barnes, P., Langridge, R. M., Little, T., Barrell, D. J. A., Mountjoy, J., Ries, W., Rowland, J., Fenton, C., Hamling, I., Asher, C., Barrier, A., Benson, A., Bischoff, A., Borella, J., Carne, R., Cochran, U. A., Cockroft, M., Cox, S. C., Duke, G., Fenton, F., Gasston, C., Grimshaw, C., Hale, D., Hall, B., Hao, K. X., Hatem, A., Hemphill-Haley, M., Heron, D. W., Howarth, J., Juniper, Z., Kane, T., Kearse, J., Khajavi, N., Lamarche, G., Lawson, S., Lukovich, B., Madugo, C., Manousakis, I., McColl, S., Noble, D., Pedley, K., Sauer, K., Stah, T., Strong, D. T., Townsend, D. B., Toy, V., Villeneuve, M., Wanders, Williams, J., Woelz, S. and Zinke, R., Mountjoy, J. (2017) The Mw7. 8 2016 Kaikōura earthquake: Surface fault rupture and seismic hazard context. Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 50(2), 73-84. https://doi.org/10.5459/bnzsee.50.2.73-84 [free access]