Special Issue in JSAES: Hazardous Faults in Latin America

A new Special Issue has just been published in the Journal of South American Earth Sciences: Hazardous Faults in Latin America. The issue contains 16 research papers and an editorial. It was edited by Carlos Costa and Laurence Audin. The issue collects highly interesting contributions from all across the continent. Although subduction megaquakes on the Chilean Trench come with the highest magnitudes, onshore faults pose a significant hazard and historical events have had catastrophic consequences. Also, studying crustal earthquakes and faults is a pre-requisite for understanding crustal deformation, mountain building, and the landscape response to tectonics. Read the Special Issue now, because all papers are free to access via ScienceDirect until 20 Jan 2022.

List of contents

• Costa, C., & Audin, L. (2021). Introduction to the special issue on hazardous faults in Latin America. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 103569.
• Costa, C., Alvarado, A., Audemard, F., Audin, L., Benavente, C., Bezerra, F. H., … & Garro, H. (2020). Hazardous faults of South America; compilation and overview. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 104, 102837.
• de Menezes, E. A. S., do Nascimento, A. F., Neto, H. L., Sousa, M. O. L., Fonseca, J. A. S., Ferreira, J. M., & Bezerra, F. H. R. (2021). Seismicity in a low-strain area: Example of the Iraucuba fault in NE Brazil. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 106, 103034.
• Martínez-Díaz, J. J., Álvarez-Gómez, J. A., Staller, A., Alonso-Henar, J., Canora, C., Insúa-Arévalo, J. M., … & Mixco, L. (2021). Active faults of El Salvador. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 105, 103038.
• Ramos, G. V., de Castro, D. L., Bezerra, F. H., Ferreira, J. M., do Nascimento, A. F., de Oliveira, P. H., & Nogueira, F. C. (2021). Seismicity in the equatorial margin of Brazil reactivates the Precambrian basement fabric. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 106, 103084.
• Aguirre, E., Benavente, C., Audin, L., Wimpenny, S., Baize, S., Rosell, L., … & Palomino, A. (2021). Earthquake surface ruptures on the altiplano and geomorphological evidence of normal faulting in the December 2016 (Mw 6.1) Parina earthquake, Peru. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 106, 103098.
• Meneses, A. N., Lacan, P., Zúñiga, F. R., Audin, L., Ortuño, M., Elguera, J. R., … & Márquez, V. (2021). First paleoseismological results in the epicentral area of the sixteenth century Ameca earthquake, Jalisco–México. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 107, 103121.
• Gómez-Vasconcelos, M. G., Avellán, D. R., Soria-Caballero, D., Macías, J. L., Velázquez-Bucio, M. M., Jiménez-Haro, A., … & Cardona-Melchor, S. (2021). Geomorphic characterization of faults as earthquake sources in the Cuitzeo Lake basin, central México. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 109, 103196.
• Cortés-Aranda, J., González, R., Fernández, V., Astudillo, L., Miller, M., Molina, D., & Oviedo, A. (2021). Neotectonic evidence for Late Quaternary reverse faulting in the northern Chile outer forearc (22.5° S-23° S): Implications for seismic hazard. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 109, 103219.
• 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, 109, 103263.
• Gaidzik, K., & Więsek, M. (2021). Seismo-lineaments and potentially seismogenic faults in the overriding plate of the Nazca-South American subduction zone (S Peru). Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 109, 103303.
• Costa, C. H., Owen, L. A., Johnson, W. J., & Kirby, E. (2021). Quaternary activity and seismogenic potential of the Sierra Chica Fault System, Pampean Ranges of Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 110, 103328.
• Velázquez-Bucio, M. M., Garduño-Monroy, V. H., Benente, L., Filonzi, S., Norini, G., Michetti, A. M., & Groppelli, G. (2021). Effects of Pleistocene to Holocene seismicity on the landforms and fluvial-lacustrine sequences of the Ixtlahuaca paleobasin, and their possible relation with the Acambay graben: Implications for the seismic hazard assessment of central Mexico. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 110, 103336.
• Jomard, H., Saqui, D., Baize, S., Alvarado, A., Bernard, B., Audin, L., … & Segovia, M. (2021). Interactions between active tectonics and gravitational deformation along the Billecocha fault system (Northern Ecuador): Insights from morphological and paleoseismological investigations. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 111, 103406.
• do Nascimento, A. F., Fonsêca, J. A., Bezerra, F. H., Sousa, M. O., & Ferreira, J. M. (2021). Multi-fault segments in the Pernambuco Lineament, Brazil: Implications for fault architecture in intraplate areas. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 111, 103494.
• Ortiz, G., Goddard, A. L. S., Fosdick, J. C., Alvarado, P., Carrapa, B., & Cristofolini, E. (2021). Fault reactivation in the Sierras Pampeanas resolved across Andean extensional and compressional regimes using thermochronologic modeling. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 112, 103533.
• Onorato, M. R., Perucca, L. P., Coronato, A., Prezzi, C., Blanc, P. A., López, R., & Magneres, I. (2021). Morphotectonic characterization along the eastern portion of the main trace of Magallanes-Fagnano Fault System in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 112, 103550.

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