M. K. Savage

Research interests

Publications

• Global quieting of high-frequency seismic noise due to COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures

  Science · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abd2438

• Complex rupture process of the Mw 7.8, 2016, Kaikoura earthquake, New Zealand, and its aftershock sequence

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2017 · 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.08.024

• Extreme hydrothermal conditions at an active plate-bounding fault

  Nature · 2017 · 10.1038/nature22355

• A seismic reflection image for the base of a tectonic plate

  Nature · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14146

• Silver and Chan revisited

  Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth · 2013 · 10.1002/jgrb.50386

• Distinguishing between stress-induced and structural anisotropy at Mount Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2011 · 10.1029/2011jb008308

• Automatic measurement of shear wave splitting and applications to time varying anisotropy at Mount Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2010 · 10.1029/2010jb007722

• Ambient noise Rayleigh wave tomography of New Zealand

  Geophysical Journal International · 2007 · 10.1111/j.1365-246x.2007.03414.x

• Stress and crustal anisotropy in Marlborough, New Zealand: evidence for low fault strength and structure-controlled anisotropy

  Geophysical Journal International · 2005 · 10.1111/j.1365-246x.2005.02783.x

• Seismic Anisotropy Beneath Ruapehu Volcano: A Possible Eruption Forecasting Tool

  Science · 2004 · 10.1126/science.1103445

• Changes in Seismic Anisotropy After Volcanic Eruptions: Evidence from Mount Ruapehu

  Science · 2001 · 10.1126/science.1063463

• Seismic anisotropy and mantle deformation: What have we learned from shear wave splitting?

  Reviews of Geophysics · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1029/98rg02075

• Continuous Deformation Versus Faulting Through the Continental Lithosphere of New Zealand

  Science · 1999 · 10.1126/science.286.5439.516

• Lower crustal anisotropy or dipping boundaries? Effects on receiver functions and a case study in New Zealand

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1998 · 10.1029/98jb00795

• Shear-wave velocity structure in the northern Basin and Range province from the combined analysis of receiver functions and surface waves

  Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America · 1997 · 10.1785/bssa0870010183

• Frequency‐dependent anisotropy in Wellington, New Zealand

  Geophysical Research Letters · 1997 · 10.1029/97gl03274

• Shear‐wave splitting beneath western United States in relation to plate tectonics

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1995 · 10.1029/95jb00715

• The Interpretation of Shear-Wave Splitting Parameters In the Presence of Two Anisotropic Layers

  Geophysical Journal International · 1994 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246x.1994.tb04027.x

• Mantle deformation and tectonics: constraints from seismic anisotropy in the western United States

  Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors · 1993 · 10.1016/0031-9201(93)90156-4

• Shear wave anisotropy and stress direction in and near Long Valley Caldera, California, 1979–1988

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1990 · 10.1029/jb095ib07p11165

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