New papers on paleoseismology, earthquakes, and active tectonics (Feb 2020)

This is the first paper round-up of the year and I think it’s perhaps a new record. So many studies have been published, but maybe it’s just because nobody has done much in the last week of December. Whatever it is – there are some pretty interesting papers in the list. Tsunami biomarkers! Kaikoura EQ news! Historic EQs! New software! Ridgecrest & Palu! And so much more. Enjoy reading!

• Howell, A., Nissen, E., Stahl, T. A., Clark, K., Kearse, J., van Dissen, R., Villamor, P., Langridge, R. M., and Jones, K. (2020). 3D surface displacements during the 2016 M W 7.8 Kaikōura (New Zealand) earthquake from photogrammetry-derived point clouds. JGR.
• Delorme, A., Grandin, R., Klinger, Y., Pierrot‐Deseilligny, M., Feuillet, N., Jacques, E., … & Morishita, Y. (2019). Complex deformation at shallow depth during the 30 October 2016 Mw6. 5 Norcia earthquake: interference between tectonic and gravity processes?. Tectonics.
• Struble, W. T., Roering, J. J., Black, B. A., Burns, W. J., Calhoun, N. & Wetherell, L. (2020). Dendrochronological dating of landslides in western Oregon: Searching for signals of the Cascadia A.D. 1700 earthquake. GSA Bulletin.
• Chen, K., Avouac, J., Aati, S., Milliner, C., Zheng, F., & Shi, C. (2020). Cascading and pulse-like ruptures during the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes in the Eastern California Shear Zone. Nature Communications 11, 22.
• Zhang, X., Xu, L. S., Luo, J., Feng, W., Du, H. L., Li, L., … & Li, C. L. (2020). Source Characteristics of the 2017 M s 6.6 (M w 6.3) Jinghe Earthquake in the Northeastern Tien Shan. Seismological Research Letters.
• Hikima, K., & Simmura, A. (2020). Moment-Area Scaling Relationship Assuming Constant Stress Drop for Crustal Earthquakes. BSSA.
• Fonseca, J. F. B. D. (2020). A Reassessment of the Magnitude of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake. BSSA.
• Van Hinsbergen, D. J., Torsvik, T. H., Schmid, S. M., Maţenco, L. C., Maffione, M., Vissers, R. L., … & Spakman, W. (2020). Orogenic architecture of the Mediterranean region and kinematic reconstruction of its tectonic evolution since the Triassic. Gondwana Research.
• Amjadi, A. A., & Mokhtari, M. (2020). Application of wavelets for specifying tsunami from tide: A comprehensive study on the 1945 Makran tide gauge records. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 106425.
• Wang, M., & Shen, Z. K. (2019). Present‐Day Crustal Deformation of Continental China Derived from GPS and its Tectonic Implications. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2019JB018774.
• Rodríguez-Escudero, E., Martínez-Díaz, J. J., Giner-Robles, J. L., Tsige, M., & Cuevas-Rodríguez, J. (2020). Pulverized quartz clasts in gouge of the Alhama de Murcia fault (Spain): Evidence for coseismic clast pulverization in a matrix deformed by frictional sliding. Geology.
• Weidman, L., Maloney, J.M., and Rockwell, T.K. (2019). Geotechnical data synthesis for GIS-based analysis of fault zone geometry and hazard in an urban environment. Geosphere, v.15, 1999-2017. doi:10.1130/GES02098.1
• Jena, R., Pradhan, B., Beydoun, G., Al-Amri, A., & Sofyan, H. (2020). Seismic hazard and risk assessment: a review of state-of-the-art traditional and GIS models. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 13(2), 50.
• Falkenroth, M., Adolphs, S., Cahnbley, M., Bagci, H., Kázmér, M., Mechernich, S. and Hoffmann, G. (2020.) Biological Indicators Reveal Small-Scale Sea-Level Variability During MIS 5e (Sur, Sultanate of Oman). Open Quaternary, 6(1), p.1.
• Nelson, A.R., Hawkes, A.D., Sawai, Y., Engelhart, S.E., Witter, R., Grant-Walter, W.C., Bradley, L.-A., Dura, T., Cahill, N. and Horton, B., 2020. Identifying the Greatest Earthquakes of the Past 2000 Years at the Nehalem River Estuary, Northern Oregon Coast, USA. Open Quaternary, 6(1), p.2.
• Binnie, A., Binnie, S. A., Parteli, E. J. R., & Dunai, T. J. (2020). The implications of sampling approach and geomorphological processes for cosmogenic 10Be exposure dating of marine terraces. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms.
• Li, Y., Bürgmann, R., & Zhao, B. (2020). Evidence of Fault Immaturity from Shallow Slip Deficit and Lack of Postseismic Deformation of the 2017 M w 6.5 Jiuzhaigou Earthquake. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
• Bilham, R., & Castillo, B. (2020). The July 2019 Ridgecrest, California, Earthquake Sequence Recorded by Creepmeters: Negligible Epicentral Afterslip and Prolonged Triggered Slip at Teleseismic Distances. Seismological Research Letters.
• Sokos, E., Gallovič, F., Evangelidis, C. P., Serpetsidaki, A., Plicka, V., Kostelecký, J., & Zahradník, J. (2020). The 2018 M w 6.8 Zakynthos, Greece, Earthquake: Dominant Strike‐Slip Faulting near Subducting Slab. Seismological Research Letters.
• Satake, K., Tsuruoka, H., Murotani, S., & Tsumura, K. (2020). Analog Seismogram Archives at the Earthquake Research Institute, the University of Tokyo. Seismological Research Letters.
• Muir, J. B., & Tsai, V. C. (2020). Did Oldham Discover the Core After All? Handling Imprecise Historical Data with Hierarchical Bayesian Model Selection Methods. Seismological Research Letters.
• Patria, A., & Putra, P. S. (2020). Development of the Palu–Koro Fault in NW Palu Valley, Indonesia. Geoscience Letters, 7(1), 1-11.
• Cook, G. T., Dunbar, E., Tripney, B. G., & Fabel, D. (2020). Using carbon isotopes to fight the rise in fraudulent whisky. Radiocarbon, 1-12.
• Wolff, R., Hetzel, R., Dunkl, I., Anczkiewicz, A. A., & Pomella, H. (2020). Fast cooling of normal-fault footwalls: Rapid fault slip or thermal relaxation?. Geology, 48.
• Milliner, C. & Donnellan, A. (2020). Using Daily Observations from Planet Labs Satellite Imagery to Separate the Surface Deformation Between the July 4th Mw 6.4 Foreshock and July 5th Mw 7.1 Mainshock During the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequences. SRL.
• Vasyura‐Bathke, H., Dettmer, J., Steinberg, A., Heimann, S., Isken, M. P., Zielke, O., Mai, P. M., Sudhaus, H. & Jónsson, S. (2020). The Bayesian Earthquake Analysis Tool. SRL.
• Iezzi, F., Roberts, G., & Walker, J. F. (2020). Throw-rate variations within linkage zones during the growth of normal faults: Case studies from the Western Volcanic Zone, Iceland. Journal of Structural Geology, 103976.
• Zondervan, J. R., Whittaker, A. C., Bell, R. E., Watkins, S. E., Brooke, S. A., & Hann, M. G. (2020). New constraints on bedrock erodibility and landscape response times upstream of an active fault. Geomorphology, 351, 106937.
• Litchfield, N. J., Clark, K. J., Cochran, U. A., Palmer, A. S., Mountjoy, J., Mueller, C., Morgenstern, R., Berryman, K. R., McFadgen, B. C., Steele, R., Reitman, N., Howarth, J., & Villamor, P. (2020). Marine Terraces Reveal Complex Near‐Shore Upper‐Plate Faulting in the Northern Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand. BSSA.
• Rabinowitz, H. S., Savage, H. M., Polissar, P. J., Rowe, C. D., & Kirkpatrick, J. D. (2020). Earthquake slip surfaces identified by biomarker thermal maturity within the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake fault zone. Nature Communications.
• Herak, D., Živčić, M., Vrkić, I., & Herak, M. (2020). The Međimurje (Croatia) Earthquake of 1738. SRL.
• Morishita, Y., Lazecky, M., Wright, T. J., Weiss, J. R., Elliott, J. R., & Hooper, A. (2020). LiCSBAS: An Open-Source InSAR Time Series Analysis Package Integrated with the LiCSAR Automated Sentinel-1 InSAR Processor. Remote Sensing.
• Metzger, S., Ischuk, A., Deng, Z., Ratschbacher, L., Perry, M., Kufner, S. K., … & Moreno, M. (2020). Dense GPS profiles across the northwestern tip of the India‐Asia collision zone: Triggered slip and westward flow of the Peter the First Range, Pamir, into the Tajik Depression. Tectonics.
• Lei, J., Li, Y., Oskin, M. E., Wang, Y., Xiong, J., Xin, W., … & Liu, F. (2020). Segmented Thrust Faulting: Example from the Northeastern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.
• Borella, J., Quigley, M., Riley, M., Trutner, S., Jol, H., Borella, M., … & Gravley, D. (2020). Influence of anthropogenic landscape modifications and infrastructure on the geological characteristics of liquefaction. Anthropocene, 100235.

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