title: Investigating Rupture Cascades on the Alpine Fault and Marlborough Fault System Using Lacustrine Paleoseismology
abstract: &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rupture cascade describes a pattern of earthquake occurrence whereby a high-magnitude earthquake on one fault hastens the occurrence of failure on nearby faults, potentially resulting in sequences of large earthquakes on timescales of years to decades. Earthquake simulations and paleoseismic data suggest that rupture cascades may be a prevalent behaviour of the interconnected Alpine Fault and Marlborough Fault System (A-MFS), and that large earthquakes on the Alpine Fault 