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John Townend

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Publications

113

Citations

8.8K

H-Index

50

Active since

1993

Affiliations

Victoria University of Wellington(Current)

University of Otago

University of Auckland

University of Canterbury

John Townend is an author at Victoria University of Wellington specializing in engineering, earth science, and tectonics.

Top concepts

EngineeringEarth ScienceTectonicsSeismologyGeophysicsGeographyCivil EngineeringGeologyEarthquake HazardsSeismic Imaging

Publications per year

1993–2024

113

Publications

113

How faulting keeps the crust strong

John Townend, Mark D. Zoback · Geology · 2000 · 901 citations

Engineering, Fault Geology, Earthquake Hazards +19

Implications of hydrostatic pore pressures and high crustal strength for the deformation of intraplate lithosphere

Mark D. Zoback, John Townend · Tectonophysics · 2001 · 405 citations

Plate Tectonics, Intraplate Lithosphere, Engineering +8

Ambient noise Rayleigh wave tomography of New Zealand

Fan‐Chi Lin, M. H. Ritzwoller, John Townend et al. · Geophysical Journal International · 2007 · 302 citations · Full text

Engineering, Seismic Wave, Surface Wave +17

Calculating horizontal stress orientations with full or partial knowledge of the tectonic stress tensor

Björn Lund, John Townend · Geophysical Journal International · 2007 · 284 citations · Full text

Triggering of the Pohang, Korea, Earthquake (Mw 5.5) by Enhanced Geothermal System Stimulation

William L. Ellsworth, Domenico Giardini, John Townend et al. · Seismological Research Letters · 2019 · 264 citations

Engineering, Earthquake Hazards, Well Stimulation +22

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