A new month, a new list. Those who attended the PATA Days in Guatemala (a report will follow!) will recognise the first three papers. There is a lot more interesting science to read this time. Enjoy and let us know if we’ve missed something. Oh – and many thanks to all of you who send links to their papers once published.

Several Special Issues (SI) are currently open for contributions in paleoseismology, active tectonics, and related fields:

BSSA: Quantifying the Long-term Prehistoric Earthquake Record: Advances and Applications. Deadline: 1 June, 2026. Guest editors: Rich Briggs, Alex Hatem, Yann Klinger, Nicola Litchfield, Dee Ninis, & Mark Stirling. https://www.seismosoc.org/publications/calls-papers/bssa-call-for-papers-10/

BSSA: Complex Multi-Fault Earthquakes. Deadline: 1 July, 2026. Guest editors: Ryo Ando, Zoë Mildon, Kevin Milner, Vasiliki Mouslopoulou, & Andy Nicol. https://www.seismosoc.org/publications/calls-papers/bssa-call-for-papers-11/

Earthquake Research Advances: Active Tectonics of the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Case Studies on Earthquake, Volcano and Tsunami Induced Hazards. Deadline: 31 March, 2026. Guest editors: Tuncay Taymaz, Aldo Zollo, Hongfeng Yang, Teng Wang, Andrea Billi, Daniele Cheloni. https://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/earthquake-research-advances/call-for-papers/active-tectonics-of-the-eastern-mediterranean-region-case-studies-on-earthquake-volcano-and-tsunami-induced-hazards/

Here at the PATA Days meeting in Guatemala, Franz Livio talked about a huge paleoseismology project targeting the Rieti Basin in Italy. He said we’d have to read the paper in order to appreciate all the details, and here we are – the paper has just been published. Of course there are many more really interesting studies that came out recently. Enjoy reading!

By Jacek and Christoph

Paleoseismology was developed in places where faults behave well. In California, Anatolia, or along major plate-boundary faults, earthquakes repeatedly break the surface in rather short recurrence intervals, and they form long scarps. In such settings, tectonic geomorphology, subsurface data, and empirical scaling laws between rupture lengths and offset tend to point in the same direction. These regions have been essential for developing paleoseismic methods—but they have also shaped our expectations in ways that are not always transferable to other settings.
Mature orogens and slowly deforming mountain belts are different. Fault slip rates are low and earthquake recurrence intervals are long, often tens of thousands of years. Erosion, solifluction, soil creep, and other types of mass movements modify the landscape faster than tectonics can do. This is especially true in areas that are glaciated during the ice ages. As a result, the geological record of faulting is incomplete by default. Scarps are degraded, stratigraphic markers are rare, and the link between surface morphology and fault kinematics is often ambiguous. None of this means that these regions are tectonically inactive. It means that their activity is harder to read.

This is the latest list of papers on paleoearthquakes and related fields. Enjoy reading and let us know in case we’ve missed something. 

This time we have studies from all over the world, among them a surprisingly large number of papers on historical data. Enjoy reading and let us know in case we’ve missed something.

This time there are a lot of papers on the active tectonics of the Mediterranean region in our list, but we also have interesting studies from Central and Eastern Asia, the Caribbean, and N America. Plus, a couple of methodological papers. Enjoy reading!

This month we have a nice variety of topics and methods, including interesting tsunami studies and lake paleoseismology. Enjoy reading!

What a long list we have today! Perhaps a bit more seismic hazard-focussed than usual, but there’s even a study on active faulting and seismic hazard on the moon. Apart from that there are many papers on Asia this time. Enjoy reading and please let us know about your new research for next month’s list.

Jacek Szczygieł is looking for a colleague to work on speleothems as seismometers for two years in the research project NCN SONATA BIS  „Enhancing paleoseismological record through multi-methods cave deformation analysis tested in diverse Hellenides tectonic regimes”.

Responsibilities:

• conducting research in the discipline of earth and environmental sciences as a part of the project led by Jacek Szczygieł
• participation in field works in the selected caves in Greece,
• participation in the laboratory works in the Institute of Earth Sciences of the University of Silesia in Katowice,
• coordination and acquisition of output data for the analysis conducted using the Finite Element Method and carrying out FEM modelling of the speleothems,
• participation in preparation of the publications that will be the result of the research conducted as a part of the project,
• completion of necessary administrative tasks in accordance with the Individual Assignment of Duties.

Deadline: 31 October, 2025.

See all details here: https://skk.erecruiter.pl/Offer.aspx?oid=4597384&cfg=0596d66a80b044cea9e98c4a71799d37&fromSkk=1755093159973&ejoId=467154&ejorId=193334&comId=20067605