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Title Earthquake Swarm Activity Beneath the Tokaanu-Waihi Geothermal System, Lake Taupo, New Zealand
Authors Hochstein M.P., Sherburn S. and Tikku J.
Year 1995
Conference New Zealand Geothermal Workshop
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Abstract The hypocentres of earthquake swarms (total of events), recorded with a local network between 1986 April and 1987 January, occur within upper crustal rocks of the deeperTokaanu-Waihi geothermal reservoir, all the events had a magnitude Most foci are aligned along two NW-trending basement fault along which young extrusions can be found. The swarm activity has been interpreted in of injections into basement fracturesof magma deeper chambers(dyke injection swarm activity).
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