New papers on paleoseismology, earthquakes, and active tectonics (Apr 2021)

Just as last month we have a veeeery long list today. Quite a number of papers deal with new data from Central Asia and S America, but of course there’s also something on the menu for connoisseurs of archaeoseismology, European, N American & African tectonics, and physics-based fault studies. Enjoy reading, stay safe and let me know if I’ve overlooked something.

• Hu, Z., Li, T., Thompson Jobe, J., & Yang, X. (2021). Lower Portion Rupture of a Thrust Fault during the 2017 Mw 6.3 Jinghe Earthquake: Implications to Seismic Hazards in the Tian Shan Region. Seismological Research Letters.
• Yu, J., Walker, R. T., Rhodes, E. J., Zhang, P., Li, C., Wang, S., … & Hao, Y. (2021). East Tacheng (Qoqek) Fault Zone: Late Quaternary Tectonics and Slip Rate of a Left‐Lateral Strike‐Slip Fault Zone North of the Tian Shan. Tectonics, 40(2), e2020TC006377.
• Howarth, J.D., Orpin, A.R., Kaneko, Y. et al. (2021). Calibrating the marine turbidite palaeoseismometer using the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake. Nat. Geosci.
• Barbot, S., & Weiss, J. R. (2021). Connecting subduction, extension, and shear localization across the Aegean Sea and Anatolia. Geophysical Journal International.
• De Masi, C., Koehler, R., Dee, S., & Keen‐Zebert, A. (2021). Early development of strike‐slip faulting: palaeoseismic study along the Petersen Mountain fault, northern Walker Lane, Nevada. Journal of Quaternary Science.
• Xie, C., Zhou, B., Yang, F., Li, Z., Cui, Y., Pang, W., & Li, W. (2021). Geological and Geomorphological Evidence for Activity along the Motuo Fault, Eastern Side of the Namche Barwa Syntaxis, Tibetan Plateau. Seismological Research Letters.
• Gunawan, E. (2021). An Assessment of Earthquake Scaling Relationships for Crustal Earthquakes in Indonesia. Seismological Research Letters.
• De Martini, P. M., Bruins, H. J., Feist, L., Goodman-Tchernov, B. N., Hadler, H., Lario, J., … & Vött, A. (2021). The Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf of Cadiz as a natural laboratory for paleotsunami research: Recent advancements. Earth-Science Reviews, 103578.
• Cheng, J., Xu, X., Yao, Q., Yang, X., & Chen, H. (2021). Seismic hazard of multi-segment rupturing for the Anninghe–Zemuhe–Daliangshan fault region, southeastern Tibetan Plateau: constraints from geological and geodetic slip rates. Natural Hazards, 1-25.
• Craig, T. J., & Jackson, J. A. (2021). Variations in the seismogenic thickness of East Africa. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2020JB020754.
• Otarola, C., Ruiz, S., Herrera, C., Madariaga, R., & Siegel, C. (2021). Dynamic rupture of subduction earthquakes located near the trench. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 562, 116842.
• Hauksson, E., Olson, B., Grant, A., Andrews, J. R., Chung, A. I., Hough, S. E., … & Valkaniotis, S. (2020). The Normal‐Faulting 2020 Mw 5.8 Lone Pine, Eastern California, Earthquake Sequence. Seismological Research Letters.
• Huang, X., Yang, H., Yang, X., Yang, H., Hu, Z., & Zhang, L. (2021). Holocene paleoeseismology of the Fodongmiao-Hongyazi Fault along the Northern Tibetan margin (Western China) and implication to intraplate earthquake rupturing pattern. Tectonophysics, 228812.
• Diederix, H., Bohórquez-Orozco, O., Gómez-Hurtado, E., Idárraga-García, J., Rendón-Rivera, A., Audemard, F., & Mora-Páez, H. (2021). Paleoseismologic trenching confirms recent Holocene activity of the major Algeciras fault system in southern Colombia. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 103263.
• Toke, N. A., Phillips, J., Langevin, C., Kleber, E., DuRoss, C. B., Hiscock, A. I., … & Horns, D. A. (2021). The Traverse Ridge Paleoseismic Site and Ruptures Crossing the Boundary Between the Provo and Salt Lake City Segments of the Wasatch Fault Zone-Utah, USA. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, 153.
• Lu, Y., Marco, S., Wetzler, N., Fang, X., Alsop, G. I., & Hubert‐Ferrari, A. (2021). A paleoseismic record spanning 2‐Myr reveals episodic late Pliocene deformation in the western Qaidam Basin, NE Tibet. Geophysical Research Letters, e2020GL090530.
• Ferranti, L., Burrato, P., Sechi, D., Andreucci, S., Pepe, F., & Pascucci, V. (2021). Late Quaternary coastal uplift of southwestern Sicily, central Mediterranean sea. Quaternary Science Reviews, 255, 106812.
• Basili, R., Brizuela, B., Herrero, A., Iqbal, S., Lorito, S., Maesano, F. E., … & Andrey, Z. (2021). The making of the NEAM Tsunami Hazard Model 2018 (NEAMTHM18). Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, 753.
• Roud, S. C., Wack, M. R., Gilder, S. A., Kudriavtseva, A., & Sobel, E. R. (2021). Miocene to early Pleistocene depositional history and tectonic evolution of the Issyk‐Kul Basin, central Tian Shan. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, e2020GC009556.
• Orecchio, B., Scolaro, S., Batlló, J., Neri, G., Presti, D., Stich, D., & Totaro, C. (2021). New Results for the 1968 Belice, South Italy, Seismic Sequence: Solving the Long‐Lasting Ambiguity on Causative Source. Seismological Research Letters.
• Gasperini, L., Stucchi, M., Cedro, V., Meghraoui, M., Ucarkus, G., & Polonia, A. (2021). Active fault segments along the North Anatolian Fault system in the Sea of Marmara: implication for seismic hazard. Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews, 1-16.
• Regard, V., Martinod, J., Saillard, M., Carretier, S., Leanni, L., Audin, L., & Pedoja, K. (2021). Late Miocene-Quaternary forearc uplift in southern Peru: new insights from 10Be dates and rocky coastal sequences. Journal of South American Earth Sciences.
• Maldonado, V., Contreras, M., & Melnick, D. (2021). A comprehensive database of active and potentially-active continental faults in Chile at 1: 25,000 scale. Scientific Data, 8(1), 1-13.
• Szczygieł, J., Sobczyk, A., Hercman, H., Mendecki, M. J., & Gąsiorowski, M. (2021). Damaged speleothems and collapsed karst chambers indicate paleoseismicity of the NE Bohemian Massif (Niedźwiedzia Cave, Poland). Tectonics, e2020TC006459.
• Goodall, H. J., Gregory, L. C., Wedmore, L. N. J., McCaffrey, K. J. W., Amey, R. M. J., Roberts, G. P., … & Hooper, A. (2021). Determining histories of slip on normal faults with bedrock scarps using cosmogenic nuclide exposure data. Tectonics.
• Kázmér, M. (2021). An unknown destructive earthquake in Transylvania in the 1660s – archeoseismology of the Inlăceni Unitarian church (Harghita county, Romania). Romanian Journal of Physics 66(1-2), 804, 8 p. 
• Kázmér, M., škrgulja, R. (2021): The 4^th century Siscia (Croatia) earthquake – archaeoseismological evidence. In: Lakušić, J., Atalić, J. (eds): Proceedings of the 1^st Croatian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 1CroCEE, Zagreb, Croatia, March 22-24, 2021, pp. 257-266
• Meletti, C., Marzocchi, W., D’Amico, V., Lanzano, G., Luzi, L., Martinelli, F., Pace, B., … & Visini, F. (2021). The new Italian Seismic Hazard model (MPS19). Annals of Geophysics.
• Martin, F. F. et al. (2021). Images of ancient Calabrian-Sicilian earthquakes from a stereoscopic viewer of the early 20th century. The ethics behind a natural disaster photo-gallery. Annals of Geophysics.
• He, P., Wen, Y., Li, S., Ding, K., Li, Z., & Xu, C. (2021). Present-day orogenic processes in the western Kalpin nappe explored by interseismic GNSS measurements and coseismic InSAR observations of the 2020 Mw 6.1 Kalpin event. Geophysical Journal International.
• Stevens, V. L., & Avouac, J. P. (2021). On the relationship between strain rate and seismicity in the India-Asia collision zone: Implications for probabilistic seismic hazard. Geophysical Journal International.
• Khalili, M., & Dilek, Y. (2021). The April 9, 2013, Kaki Earthquake (Mw= 6.3) in SW Iran Occurred along a Blind Backthrust in the Fars Geological Province of the Zagros Fold & Thrust Belt. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 501.
• Papathanassiou, G., Valkaniotis, S., & Ganas, A. (2021). Spatial patterns, controlling factors, and characteristics of landslides triggered by strike-slip faulting earthquakes: case study of Lefkada island, Greece. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 1-19.
• Rossetti, D. F., Bezerra, F. H., Valeriano, M. M., & Molina, E. C. (2021). Late Pleistocene–Holocene stress in the South American intraplate evidenced by tectonic instability in central Amazonia. Quaternary Research, 1-17.
• Milliner, C., Donnellan, A., Aati, S., Avouac, J. P., Zinke, R., Dolan, J. F., … & Bürgmann, R. (2020). Bookshelf Kinematics and the Effect of Dilatation on Fault Zone Inelastic Deformation: Examples from Optical Image Correlation Measurements of the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2020JB020551.
• Astudillo-Sotomayor, L., Jara-Muñoz, J., Melnick, D. et al. (2021). Fast Holocene slip and localized strain along the Liquiñe-Ofqui strike-slip fault system, Chile. Sci Rep 11, 5970.
• Hu, G., Chen, J., Zhang, W., Di, N., Li, Y., & Li, S. H. (2021). Out‐of‐sequence backthrusting since the Middle Pleistocene revealed by the Jiangnanmiao thrust fault along the northern Tian Shan, China. Tectonics, e2020TC006662.
• Kufner, S. K., Kakar, N., Bezada, M., Bloch, W., Metzger, S., Yuan, X., … & Schurr, B. (2021). The Hindu Kush slab break-off as revealed by deep structure and crustal deformation. Nature Communications, 12(1), 1-11.
• Hecker, S., DeLong, S. B., & Schwartz, D. P. (2021). Rapid strain release on the Bear River fault zone, Utah–Wyoming—The impact of preexisting structure on the rupture behavior of a new normal fault. Tectonophysics, 228819.
• Xu, Q., Hetzel, R., Hampel, A., & Wolff, R. (2021). Slip rate of the Danghe Nan Shan thrust fault from 10Be exposure dating of folded river terraces: implications for the strain distribution in northern Tibet. Tectonics, e2020TC006584.
• Carlino, S., Pino, N. A., Tramelli, A., De Novellis, V., & Convertito, V. (2021). A common source for the destructive earthquakes in the volcanic island of Ischia (Southern Italy): insights from historical and recent seismicity. Natural Hazards, 1-25.
• Macklin, C., Kaneko, Y., Kearse, J. (2021). Coseismic slickenlines record the emergence of multiple rupture fronts during a surface-breaking earthquake. Tectonophysics, 228834.
• Agata, R., Kasahara, A., & Yagi, Y. (2021). A Bayesian inference framework for fault slip distributions based on ensemble modelling of the uncertainty of underground structure: with a focus on uncertain fault dip. Geophysical Journal International, 225(2), 1392-1411.
• Rimando, J., Schoenbohm, L. M., Ortiz, G., Alvarado, P., Venerdini, A., Owen, L. A., et al. (2021). Late Quaternary intraplate deformation defined by the Las Chacras Fault Zone, West‐Central Argentina. Tectonics, 40, e2020TC006509
• Faure Walker, J., Boncio, P., Pace, B. et al. (2021). Fault2SHA Central Apennines database and structuring active fault data for seismic hazard assessment. Sci Data 8, 87.
• Rezaeian, S., Powers, P. M., Shumway, A. M., Petersen, M. D., Luco, N., Frankel, A. D., … & McNamara, D. E. (2021). The 2018 update of the US National Seismic Hazard Model: Ground motion models in the central and eastern US. Earthquake Spectra, 8755293021993837.
• Blisniuk, K., Scharer, K., Sharp, W. D., Burgmann, R., Amos, C. & Rymer, M. (2021). A revised position for the primary strand of the Pleistocene-Holocene San Andreas fault in southern California. Science Advances 7, 13, eaaz5691
• Yazıcı, M., Zabcı, C., Natal’in, B. A., Sançar, T., & Akyüz, H. S. (2020). Palaeoseismic behaviour of strike-slip faults in slowly deforming regions: palaeoearthquakes and long-term slip history of the Ovacık Fault (eastern Turkey). Journal of Seismology, 1-18.
• Diaz, J. (2020). Church bells and ground motions. Journal of Seismology, 1-10.
• Olivotos, S., Niedermann, S., Flügel, T., Mouslopoulou, V., Merchel, S., Cotterill, F., … & Seiler, M. (2021). Quaternary landscape evolution in a tectonically active rift basin (paleo-lake Mweru, south-central Africa). Geomorphology, 107669.
• Esat, K., Seyitoğlu, G., Aktuğ, B., Kaypak, B., & Ecevitoğlu, B. (2021). The Northwest Central Anatolian Contractional Area: A neotectonic deformation zone bounded by major strike-slip fault zones in the Anatolian Plate. Tectonophysics, 228776.
• Pang, L., Lu, H., Wu, D., Guan, X., Zhao, J., Zheng, X., & Li, Y. (2021). Late Pleistocene uniform rate of thrusting along the fault’s strike: A case study from the northern Tian Shan foreland. Tectonics, e2021TC006726.
• Ribot, M., Klinger, Y., Jónsson, S., Avsar, U., Pons‐Branchu, E., Matrau, R., & Mallon, F. L. (2020). Active faults’ geometry in the Gulf of Aqaba, southern Dead Sea fault, illuminated by multi beam bathymetric data. Tectonics, e2020TC006443.
• Prizomwala, S. P., Tandon, A., Joshi, N., & Makwana, N. (2021). Reconstructing the catalogue for extreme wave events from the Gujarat coastline (Western India) and their implications to coastal settlers during the last 6000 years. Quaternary International.
• Zhang, Y., Shan, X., Gong, W., & Zhang, G. (2021). The ambiguous fault geometry derived from InSAR measurements of buried thrust earthquakes: a synthetic data based study. Geophysical Journal International, 225(3), 1799-1811.
• De Pascale, G.P., Froude, M., Penna, I. et al. (2021). Liquiñe-Ofqui’s fast slipping intra-volcanic arc crustal faulting above the subducted Chile Ridge. Sci Rep 11, 7069.
• Pascale, G. P. D. (2021). Comment on “Crustal faults in the Chilean Andes: geological constraints and seismic potential” by Santibáñez et al. (2019), Andean Geology 46 (1): 32-65. Andean geology, 48(1), 175-183.

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