Member Since 1981
Martha K. Savage
Professor, Victoria University of Wellington
President, Seismology Executive Committee; Section President, Council; Member, Paul G. Silver Award for Outstanding Scientific Service Committee; Member, Seismology Gutenberg Lecture Committee; Immediate Past President, Seismology Executive Committee
Martha Kane Savage is Professor of Geophysics at Victoria University of Wellington. She teaches Geophysics, Tectonics, and Seismology. Her research interests are seismology and its relation to tectonics, earthquake & volcanic hazards and geothermal development. Specific research contributions include determining the Earth’s velocity structure using earthquakes and seismic noise, using variations in seismic wave speed with direction.
Professional Experience
Victoria University of Wellington
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Education
Doctorate
1987
University of Wisconsin Madison
Masters
1984
Swarthmore College
Bachelors
1979
University of Wisconsin Madison
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Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2015
Citation
For groundbreaking work using seismic anisotropy to determine tectonic deformation in the crust and mantle and active deformation of volcanoes tied to their eruptive cycles.
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Publications
Spatiotemporal Evolution of Slow Slip Events at the Offshore Hikurangi Subduction Zone in 2019 Using...
Detecting crustal deformation during transient deformation events at offshore subduction zones remains challenging. The spatiotemporal evolution of...
August 22, 2024
A Novel Method to Determine Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Usi...
November 29, 2023
Earthquakes and Seismic Hazard in Southern New Caledonia, So...
December 08, 2022
AGU Abstracts
Seismic velocity changes associated with eruptions at Whakaari/White Island Volcano, New Zealand
AGU 2024
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 11 december 2024
Dagim Yoseph Mengesha, Martha K. Savage, Arthur D....
Whakaari/White Island has been the most active New Zealand volcano in the 21st century, producing small phreatic and phreatomagmatic eruptions which a...
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Seismicity and moment tensors from a dense deployment spanning slow slip earthquakes in the central Hikurangi margin, New Zealand
AGU 2024
seismology | 11 december 2024
Martha K. Savage, Stephen Kwong, Emily Warren-Smit...
To understand the relation between slow slip events (SSEs) and microseismicity at a locking transition boundary along the Hikurangi subduction zone, w...
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Testing the PLUM Earthquake Early Warning Algorithm for New Zealand Using a Physics-Based Synthetic Earthquake Catalogue
AGU 2024
seismology | 10 december 2024
Rasika Nandana Walakulu Arachchige, Caroline Franc...
Aotearoa New Zealand is an earthquake-prone country as it lies on the boundary of two major tectonic plates. However, New Zealand still needs a nation...
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Volunteer Experience
2025 - 2026
Immediate Past President
Seismology Executive Committee
2024 - 2026
Member
Seismology Gutenberg Lecture Committee
2023 - 2024
President
Seismology Executive Committee
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