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Martin Reyners

Martin Reyners

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Earth Science

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Citations
6167
World Ranking
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National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Overview

Martin Reyners is affiliated with GNS Science in New Zealand and has contributed extensively to Earth and Planetary Sciences with a focus on Geophysics and Artificial Intelligence. Their research spans various subfields including Oceanography and Geology. The main topics of their work are seismic waves and analysis, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, seismology and earthquake studies, earthquake and tectonic studies, as well as geophysics and gravity measurements.

Recent publications by Martin Reyners cover a range of research pertinent to New Zealand's seismic and tectonic environment. These works include:

  • New Zealand Wide model 2.2 seismic velocity and Qs and Qp models for New Zealand, 2020, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • New Zealand Fault-Rupture Depth Model v.1.0: A Provisional Estimate of the Maximum Depth of Seismic Rupture on New Zealand's Active Faults, 2023, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • The Influence of Basement Terranes on Tectonic Deformation: Joint Earthquake Travel-Time and Ambient Noise Tomography of the Southern South Island, New Zealand, 2022, Tectonics
  • Catalogue of 2001-2011 New Zealand earthquakes relocated with 3-D seismic velocity model and comparison to 2019-2020 auto-detected earthquakes in the sparsely instrumented southern South Island, 2022, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
  • New Zealand Wide model 2.3 seismic velocity model for New Zealand, 2022, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Martin Reyners has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • Tectonics
  • New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Collaborations have been a significant part of their work, with frequent coauthors including Donna Eberhart-Phillips, Stephen Bannister, Sandra Bourguignon, Susan Ellis, and Bill Fry.

Martin Reyners was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2008.

Best Publications

  • National Seismic Hazard Model for New Zealand: 2010 Update

    Mark Stirling;Graeme McVerry;Matthew Gerstenberger;Nicola Litchfield

  • Imaging subduction from the trench to 300 km depth beneath the central North Island, New Zealand, with Vp and Vp/Vs

    Martin Reyners;Donna Eberhart-Phillips;Graham Stuart;Yuichi Nishimura

  • Characterizing the seismogenic zone of a major plate boundary subduction thrust: Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand

    Laura M. Wallace;Martin Reyners;Ursula Cochran;Stephen Bannister

  • Revised Interface Geometry for the Hikurangi Subduction Zone, New Zealand

    Charles A. Williams;Donna Eberhart‐Phillips;Stephen Bannister;Daniel H. N. Barker

  • The Darfield (Canterbury, New Zealand) Mw 7.1 Earthquake of September 2010: A Preliminary Seismological Report

    Ken Gledhill;John Ristau;Martin Reyners;Bill Fry

  • Continental subduction and three-dimensional crustal structure: The northern South Island, New Zealand

    Donna Eberhart-Phillips;Martin Reyners

  • Establishing a Versatile 3-D Seismic Velocity Model for New Zealand

    Donna Eberhart-Phillips;Martin Reyners;Stephen Bannister;Mark Chadwick

  • A three-dimensional image of shallow subduction: crustal structure of the Raukumara Peninsula, New Zealand

    Martin Reyners;Donna Eberhart-Phillips;Graham Stuart

  • Tracking repeated subduction of the Hikurangi Plateau beneath New Zealand

    Martin Reyners;Donna Eberhart-Phillips;Donna Eberhart-Phillips;Stephen Bannister

  • Microseismicity but no tremor accompanying slow slip in the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand

    E.J. Delahaye;J. Townend;M.E. Reyners;G. Rogers

  • Plate coupling and the hazard of large subduction thrust earthquakes at the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand

    Martin Reyners

  • A microearthquake study of the plate boundary, North Island, New Zealand

    Martin Everardus Reyners

  • Submarine hydrothermal activity along the mid‐Kermadec Arc, New Zealand: Large‐scale effects on venting

    C. E. J. de Ronde;E. T. Baker;G. J. Massoth;J. E. Lupton

  • The role of fluids in lower-crustal earthquakes near continental rifts

    Martin Reyners;Donna Eberhart-Phillips;Donna Eberhart-Phillips;Graham Stuart

  • Fine structure of the dipping seismic zone and subduction mechanics in the Shumagin Islands, Alaska

    Martin Reyners;Kenneth S. Coles

  • Crustal heterogeneity and subduction processes: 3-D Vp, Vp/Vs and Q in the southern North Island, New Zealand

    Donna Eberhart-Phillips;Martin Reyners;Mark Chadwick;Jer-Ming Chiu

  • The central role of the Hikurangi Plateau in the Cenozoic tectonics of New Zealand and the Southwest Pacific

    Martin Reyners

  • Tsunami Hazard Posed to New Zealand by the Kermadec and Southern New Hebrides Subduction Margins: An Assessment Based on Plate Boundary Kinematics, Interseismic Coupling, and Historical Seismicity

    William Power;Laura Wallace;Xiaoming Wang;Martin Reyners

  • The transition from subduction to continental collision: crustal structure in the North Canterbury region, New Zealand

    Martin Reyners;Hugh Cowan

  • Small earthquakes provide insight into plate coupling and fluid distribution in the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand

    Martin Reyners;Donna Eberhart-Phillips;Donna Eberhart-Phillips

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham Stuart
Graham Stuart University of Leeds
John Beavan
John Beavan GNS Science
Laura M. Wallace
Laura M. Wallace The University of Texas at Austin
Stuart Henrys
Stuart Henrys University of Auckland
John Townend
John Townend Victoria University of Wellington
Sergey Samsonov
Sergey Samsonov Natural Resources Canada
Susan Ellis
Susan Ellis GNS Science
Robert McCaffrey
Robert McCaffrey Portland State University

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