Staff profiles
Stephen BannisterPrincipal Scientist, Seismologist
Qualifications
- PhD, Geophysics
- BSc, Geophysics
Areas of expertise
- Geophysics: Seismology
- Geophysics: Mathematical inversion techniques
- Geophysics: Seismic wave propagation
- Geophysics: Seismic tomography
- Geophysics: Modelling earthquake source processes
- Geophysics: Reservoir-induced seismicity
- Geophysics: Seismic imaging methods
Major Publications
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- Magmatic priming of a phreatic eruption sequence : the 2012 Te Maari eruptions at Mt Tongariro (New Zealand) imaged by magnetotellurics and seismicity, Geophysical Journal International 236(3): p. 1848-1862. DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggae022.
- New Zealand Fault-Rupture Depth Model v1.0 : a provisional estimate of the maximum depth of seismic rupture on New Zealands active faults, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 114(1): p. 78-94. DOI: 10.1785/0120230166.
- Imaging sub-caldera structure with local seismicity, Okataina Volcanic Centre, Taupo Volcanic Zone, using double-difference seismic tomography, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 431: article 107653. DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2022.107653.
- Attenuation in the mantle wedge beneath super-volcanoes of the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand, Geophysical Journal International 220(1): p. 703-723. DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggz455.
- Earthquake directivity, orientation, and stress drop within the subducting plate at the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand, Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth 122(12): p. 10,176-10,188. DOI: 10.1002/2017JB014935.
- Variability of earthquake stress drop in a subduction setting, the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand, Geophysical Journal International 208(1): p. 306-320. DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggw393.
- Off-axis magmatism along a subaerial back-arc rift : observations from the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand, Science Advances 2(6): article e1600288.
- 3-D imaging of the northern Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand : variations in subducted sediment, slab fluids and slow slip, Geophysical Journal International 201(2): p. 838-855. DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggv057.
- Time-dependent modeling of slow slip events and associated seismicity and tremor at the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand, Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth 119(1): p.734-753. DOI: 10.1002/2013JB010609.
- Simultaneous long-term and short-term slow slip events at the Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand : implications for processes that control slow slip event occurrence, duration, and migration, Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth 117(B11): B11402. DOI: 10.1029/2012JB009489.
- Non-volcanic tremor associated with the March 2010 Gisborne slow slip event at the Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand, Geophysical Research Letters 38: L14301. DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048400.
- Fine-scale relocation of aftershocks of the 22 February Mw 6.2 Christchurch Earthquake using double-difference tomography, Seismological Research Letters 82(6): p. 839-845. DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.82.6.839.
- Ambient noise Rayleigh wave tomography of New Zealand, Geophysical Journal International 170(2): p. 649-666. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03414.x.
- Imaging the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand, using teleseismic receiver functions : crustal fluids above the forearc mantle wedge, Geophysical Journal International 169(2): p. 602-616. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03345.x.
- Repeating earthquakes from rupture of an asperity under an Antarctic outlet glacier, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 253(1-2): p. 151-158.
- Earthquakes triggered by slow slip at the plate interface in the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand, Geophysical Research Letters 34(14): L14305. DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030511.
- Implications for intraplate volcanism and back-arc deformation in northwestern New Zealand, from joint inversion of receiver functions and surface waves, Geophysical Journal International 166(3): p. 1466-1483.
- Kinking of the subducting slab by escalator normal faulting beneath the North Island of New Zealand, Geology 34(9): DOI: 10.1130/G22594.
- Detailed fault structure highlighted by finely relocated aftershocks, Arthur's Pass, New Zealand, Geophysical Research Letters 33(18): L18315. DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027462.
- Shear wave velocity variation across the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand, from receiver function inversion, Geophysical Journal International 159(1): p. 291-310.
- Variations in crustal structure across the transition from west to east Antarctica, Southern Victoria Land, Geophysical Journal International 155(3): p. 870-884.
- Seismic velocity structure of the central Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand, from local earthquake tomography, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 122(1-2): p. 69-88. DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0273(02)00470-5.
- Three-dimensional crustal structure in the Southern Alps region of New Zealand from inversion of local earthquake and active source data, Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth 107(B10): DOI: 10.1029/2001JB000567.
- Multimode migration of scattered and converted waves for the structure of the Hikurangi slab interface, New Zealand, Tectonophysics 355(1-4): p. 227-246. DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(02)00144-0.
- Seismic activity in the Transantarctic Mountains : results from a broadband array deployment, Terra Antartica 9(1): p. 41-46.
- Determination of fault planes in a complex aftershock sequence using two-dimensional slip inversion, Geophysical Journal International 146(1): p. 134-142.
- Shear-wave velocities under the Transantarctic Mountains and Terror Rift from surface wave inversion, Geophysical Research Letters 27(2): p. 281-284.
- Uplift of the Transantarctic Mountains and the bedrock beneath the East Antarctic ice sheet, Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth 102(B12): p. 27603-27621.
- Shallow morphology of the subducted Pacific Plate along the Hikurangi margin, New Zealand, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 93(1-2): p. 3-20. DOI: 10.1016/0031-9201(95)03085-9.
- Geophysical investigations of the tectonic boundary between East and West Antarctica, Science 261(5117): p. 45-50.
- Teleseismic P coda analysed by three-component and array techniques : deterministic location of topographic P-to-Rg scattering near the NORESS array, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 80(6B): pp. 1969-1986.
- Normal faulting through subducted oceanic crust : the 19 July 1985 earthquake of Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, Tectonophysics 162(3/4): p. 303-313. DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(89)90251-5.
- Microseismicity and velocity structure in the Hawkes Bay region, New Zealand : fine structure of the subducting Pacific Plate, Geophysical journal 95(1): p. 45-62. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1988.tb00449.x.