Subduction structure of the Hikurangi Plateau, from travel-time inversion of OBS data, offshore of the Wellington region, the southern North Island, New Zealand


Kimihiro Mochizuki1, Stuart A Henrys2, Rupert Sutherland3, David A Okaya4, Tomoaki Yamada5, Masanao Shinohara6, Takaya Iwasaki7, Hiroshi Sato6, Ryuta Arai8, Gou Fujie9, Yojiro Yamamoto9, Yukihiro Nakatani10, Shuichi Kodaira11, Daniel H N Barker12, Dan Bassett12, Harm J Van Avendonk13 and Nathan L Bangs14, (1)University of Tokyo, Earthquake Research Institute, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (2)Earth Sciences New Zealand, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (3)Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, (4)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (5)ERI, TheUniversity of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (6)Univ Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (7)the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (8)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States, (9)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama, Japan, (10)Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (11)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan, (12)GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (13)University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, (14)Univ Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States