This is a non-peer reviewed preprint submitted to EarthArXiv 1 The 1987 to 2019 Tennant Creek, Australia, earthquake sequence: a 2 protracted intraplate multi-mainshock sequence 3 4 Tamarah R. King 5 School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia 6
[email protected] 7 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9654-2917 8 Mark Quigley 9 School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia 10
[email protected] 11 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4430-4212 12 Dan Clark 13 Geoscience Australia, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia 14 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5387-4404 15 Sotiris N. Valkaniotis 16 Koronidos 9, 42131 Trikala, Greece 17 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0003-2902 18 Hiwa Mohammadi 19 School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia 20 William Barnhart 21 Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Iowa, USA 22 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0498-169 23 24 This document presents a review of available literature related to 1989 Tennant Creek surface 25 rupturing earthquakes, and new data describing the 2019 Tennant Creek earthquake. 26 We intend to produce a second iteration of this report which extends the analysis and interpretation st 27 for the 1 August 2019 Mw 5.0 aftershock including additional Coulomb stress modelling, fault source 28 modelling, and geophysical analysis. 29 The review section of this document supplements a manuscript reviewing all Australian surface 30 rupturing earthquakes, submitted to Geosciences in August 2019. 31 Please contact authors on the content presented herein; we welcome constructive feedback.