PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS OF THE 2010 DARFIELD (CANTERBURY) EARTHQUAKES: AN INTRODUCTION

This Bulletin of the NZSEE presents preliminary observations of the Darfield earthquake sequence and impacts, with papers authored by members of the NZGS, the SESOC, as well as NZSEE, together with associates from New Zealand and from overseas, including representatives of Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), Australian Earthquake Engineering Society (AEES), Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER), Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance Association (GEER), and Japanese Geotechnical Society (JGS).