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» New papers on paleoseismology, active tectonics, and archaeoseismology (Oct 2025)

These are the latest papers on paleoseismology, active tectonics, and archaeoseismology (Oct 2025)
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Paleoseismic activity in the moon’s Taurus-Littrow valley inferred from boulder falls and landslides The lunar landscape has been changed by strong seismic shaking from moonquakes potentially hazardous to long-term infrastructure.

Paleoseismic activity in the moon’s Taurus-Littrow valley inferred from boulder falls and landslides: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... -> University of Maryland Geophysicist Helps Identify Moonquake Dangers that Could Threaten Future Missions: cmns.umd.edu/news-events/...

New paper by @diegosismologo.bsky.social and others out now about the 2025 M7.8 Myanmar earthquake. Includes some of the paleoseismic results from trenching we did a fews ago before the earthquake.

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Registration is open for the 2026 PATA Days in Guatemala. 1-6 February, 2026

PATA = Int'l workshop on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics, Archaeoseismology.

Short stop at gorgeous #Forsinard Flows in the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Highlands, on our way to the #Shetland Islands in search of further palaeo-storm records and #tsunami deposits. Stay tuned...

» New papers on paleoseismology, active tectonics, and archaeoseismology (Sep 2025)

New papers on paleoseismology, active tectonics, and archaeoseismology (Sep 2025)
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📢Fresh off the press
Unexpected latest Pleistocene W-dipping reverse fault-slip in the Maritimes Alps (SE France)—Insights from passage offset in Mescla Cave
Now available in J. Of Quaternary Science

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
All started from discussion on PATAdays22
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Afghan earthquake survivors refuse to return to villages, fearing landslides Haunted by the fear that aftershocks could bring rocks crashing down from the mountains, the survivors of Afghan earthquakes vowed not to return to destroyed villages but camp in fields and on riverbanks instead, even without tents to keep off the rain.

Survivors of the 1 September 2025 earthquake in Afghanistan have correctly assessed that rainfall-triggered landslides are much more likely in the aftermath of the mainshock. This illustrates how landslides extend the impact of an earthquake in time and space.
www.reuters.com/business/env...

Tom Rockwell standing on the stage in front of 4 chairs. On the left is a large projection screen showing one of his slides that includes a photomicrograph of fractured mineral grains.

A slide from Tom’s talk showing an annotated aerial view of the San Andreas Fault near Little Rock and a photomicrograph on the right showing pulverized mineral grains from a sample collected several meters from the main fault plane.

Summary slide of Tom’s talk labeled: General Summary of Physical Damage. Includes three categories: small displacement (less than 1 meter), moderate (1.5 to 2.7 meter), and large displacement (3 to 6 meters).

Tom Rockwell (Distinguished Lecture) kicking off the 2025 SCEC meeting! Small offset per event (smaller magnitude) produces narrower damage zone in nearby rocks. Serves as a proxy for max magnitude per rupture event. #scecmeet #scec2025 🧪

Tectonic and seismicity of the study area. (a) Topography of the Pamir region and its surrounding areas, along with GPS velocities relative to the stable Eurasian plate (Wang and Shen, 2020). Black and yellow rectangles represent the profile of GPS velocities and location of panel c, respectively. MPT = Main Pamir Thrust, PFT = Pamir Frontal Thrust, STST = Southern Tian Shan Thrust. (b) GPS velocity of profile A-A′ within the black rectangles in (a). (c) is a zoom of the yellow rectangular region in panel (a). Blue and purple polygons indicate the coverage areas of the KH-9 panoramic and WorldView-3 images, respectively. Red, pink focal mechanisms depict the main shock and aftershocks of 1985 Wuqia earthquake, as reported by Burtman & Molnar (1993), Fan et al. (1994) and GCMT (https://www.globalcmt.org/). Cyan dots represent magnitude < 5.0 earthquakes. Epicentres of historical magnitude ≥ 5.0 earthquakes in the period 1969–2020 from USGS (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/) and Li et al. (2019) are shown as black focal mechanisms and yellow dots. TT = Tuomuluoan Thrust, WHSL = Wuheshalu syncline, KES = Kongur Extensional System. (d) Red solid line and green dots represents the coseismic surface ruptures from field investigation (Feng et al. 1987, 1988) and red dashed line shows an inferred rupture of 1985 Wuqia earthquake from Li et al. (2019). Purple crosses correspond to the location of the GCPs for image registration in Section 3.1.

Published in #GJI Geophysical Journal International: "Geometric control of the 1985 Wuqia Earthquake Rupture: insights from optical image correlation", Zhang et al. This is Fig. 1: for the caption & to read the paper please visit academic.oup.com/gji/article/... @royalastrosoc.bsky.social

Southern California’s San Fernando Valley has high earthquake hazard. A new #SRL study reveals the basin’s geometry and unmapped faults at depth. ⚒️

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Subaquatic #paleoseismology is a great tool to reconstruct past #earthquakes! But which components of #shaking are the #turbidites we study actually recording? 🤔

💡📢 Find out in my latest #publication ⏬ @seismosocam.bsky.social

Another step closer to #quantitative paleoseismology! 👩‍🔬🥳

Excited to see this product from our Cascadia Paleoseismology Working Group (CPAL) out! Huge shoutout to Lydia Staisch for spearheading this effort along with lots of input from the coastal paleoseismology community. Check it out for all of your paleoseismic dataset needs!

Grad student Aubrey LaPlante publishes results of mapping that tracks variations in paleo earthquake surface ruptures in Eastern California #ECSZ #paleoseismology #EDMAP #AGeS #NAU_geology, #SES_publications, #SES_students @rengellia.bsky.social pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsw/lithosph...

Trapped Charge Techniques Pinpoint Past Fault Slip - Eos Scientists combine two novel dating techniques on fault gouge to better pinpoint the timing and nature of past fault activity in the Eastern Alps.

Trapped Charge Techniques Pinpoint Past Fault Slip eos.org/editor-highl...

Deadline for travel grant application: 15 September
Deadline for registration and short abstract: 31 October 2025
Deadline for extended, four-page abstracts: 1 December

A bird's eye view of a paleoseismological trench

An optional pre-conference field trip will explore the plate boundary between N America and the Caribbean, including visits to paleoseismological trenches.

Agua volcano at night, a city in the foreground

The workshop will be held in Antigua Guatemala, including talks and posters as well as walking tours to see earthquake damage in the city.

PATA 2026 PATA 2026 Antigua Guatemala

Website: www.pata2026.org

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Registration is open for the 2026 PATA Days in Guatemala. 1-6 February, 2026

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Assistant Professor in the group of research staff (post-doc) 51/2024/NA/WNP/INoZ/pd/02​, Uniwersytet Śląski, Sosnowiec Job offer Assistant Professor in the group of research staff (post-doc) 51/2024/NA/WNP/INoZ/pd/02​, Uniwersytet Śląski, Sosnowiec

We're hiring! 2-year #PostDoc in #speleothem #seismic vulnerability from FEM modeling to enhance @paleoseismicity.bsky.social of Hellenides (Greece)
Part of @ncn.gov.pl project at the University of Silesia, Poland
Deadline: 31th October 2025
Details 👇

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Recruiting: Senior Geomorphologist post to work on the rivers in stunning North & Mid Wales on offer from
@NatResWales

Please share naturalresources.wales/about-us/job...

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@ciwem.bsky.social @afonyddcymru.bsky.social @scottishepa.bsky.social

PATA 2026 PATA 2026 Antigua Guatemala

PATA Days 2026 in Guatemala – Registration open! www.pata2026.org

The 2026 international workshop on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics, and Archeoseismology will be held in Guatemala to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1976 Guatemala M7.5 Earthquake.

» New papers on paleoseismology, active tectonics, and archaeoseismology (Aug 2025)

These are the latest papers on paleoseismology, active tectonics, and archaeoseismology (Aug 2025)
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Why the Russian Earthquake Didn’t Cause a Huge Tsunami Russia’s magnitude 8.8 earthquake spawned serious tsunami warnings, but waves have been moderate so far. Here’s the geological reason why

CRESCENT'S Diego Melgar was featured in a Scientific American article about the recent magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Russia.

Check it out here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

Kamchatka 8.8 magnitude earthquake

It appears that the Mw8.8 of yesterday triggers outer-rise extensional #earthquakes 👇.

Outer-rise earthquakes break the oceanic plate seaward from the trench. They may be large. Little more south, the Mw8.1 of Jan 2007 (outer-rise) followed the Nov 2006 Mw8.3 #Kuril #megathrust #earthquake. ⚒️ 1/2

Sorry, only in german: Heute - mitten in der Nacht mein Interview zum Erdbeben auf Kamtschatka und folgenden Tsunami im Pazifik im RTL Nachtjournal Spezial 👇 . Gibt es in der RTL-Mediathek oder (auf email Anfrage) bei mir zum Download.

When #cave columns are compressed and a bunch of fallen stalactites are lying around, one knows something more than just a gravity breakdown happened 😁
Hunting for #earthquakes traces in caves on Crete with @christospennos.bsky.social
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Here’s some action 😉
A bit cringe #gopro clip from the fieldwork in Dadulas #cave nearby Siti #fault zone in eastern Crete: looking for the broken #speleothems
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