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

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!

• Robertson, J., Sgambato, C., Roberts, G., Mildon, Z., Faure Walker, J., Iezzi, F., … & Reicherter, K. (2025). Consistency Between the Slip History Implied by in Situ 36Cl Exposure Dating on an Active Normal Fault and the Timing of Holocene Coastal Notch Formation, Central Greece. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130(10), e2024JB030293.
• Dohmen, K., Blum, P., Braun, A., & Fernandez-Steeger, T. M. (2025). Landslide-triggered tsunamis–a review. Natural Hazards, 1-33.
• Brandes, C., Tanner, D. C., Igel, J., & Nicol, A. (2025). Lithological control on the geometry of strike-slip faults–insight from ground-penetrating radar (GPR) survey and analogue modelling. Tectonophysics, 230944.
• Bilal, A., Yang, R., Chen, S., Lenhardt, N., Mughal, M. S., & Kontakiotis, G. (2025). Seismically induced Soft-Sediment deformation in alluvial Fans: Mechanisms and Implications for geological evolution of the Ordos Basin (China). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 106821.
• Goldfinger, C., Beeson, J., Black, B., Vizcaino, A., Nelson, C. H., Morey, A., … & Walzcak, M. D. (2025). Unravelling the dance of earthquakes: Evidence of partial synchronization of the northern San Andreas fault and Cascadia megathrust. Geosphere.
• Zhang, Z., Ren, J., Wang, S., Yang, X., Bell, R. E., Lv, Y., … & Xu, X. (2025). Normal faults and tectonic model of the Bamei‐Kangding segment within the southern Xianshuihe Fault zone in Eastern Tibet. Tectonics, 44(10), e2025TC008925.
• Liu, X., Yuan, S., Zhang, L., Zang, K., Zhang, J., & Wu, C. (2025). Late Quaternary thrust faulting along the NW-trending Heya fault in southwestern Tian Shan, NW China. Quaternary Science Advances, 20, 100303.
• Gnesko, L., Stahl, T., Mountjoy, J. J., & Carey, J. M. (2025). Transient evidence of shallow coseismic submarine landslides shaping canyon head geomorphology: Insights from the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand. Geology.
• Chakraborty, P. P., Deep, A., & Singh, U. K. (2025). Seismically Induced Soft‐Sediment Deformation Structures and Massflow Deposits in a Paleoproterozoic Shelf Setting (Chakrata Formation, Lesser Himalaya, India). Geological Journal.
• Olaiz, A., Álvarez Gómez, J. A., de Vicente, G., Muñoz-Martín, A., Cantavella, J. V., Custódio, S., … & Heidbach, O. (2025). Onshore and offshore seismotectonics of Iberia: an updated review. Solid Earth, 16(10), 947-1024.
• Nappi, R., Silva Fragoso, A., Pischiutta, M., Alessio, G., Nave, R., Groppelli, G., … & Michetti, A. M. (2025). The Casamicciola fault system (Ischia Island, Campania region, Italy): mapping the surface trace of the 1883 and 2017 earthquake source from UAV LiDAR images and 2-D ERT profiles. Journal of Maps, 21(1), 2565358.
• Lynch, E. M., Thompson Jobe, J., Briggs, R., Tan, M. M., Ortega Díaz, V., & Hughes, K. S. (2025). Late Pleistocene Kinematics of the Great Southern Puerto Rico Fault Zone, Puerto Rico. Seismological Research Letters.
• Canari, A., Perea, H., & Martínez‐Loriente, S. (2025). Characterizing an incipient fault system: Insights from the morphometric analysis of the North‐South Faults (Alboran Sea). Tectonics, 44(10), e2024TC008705.
• Rodriguez Piceda, C., Mildon, Z., Andrews, B. J., Visini, F., Ampuero, J. P., & van den Ende, M. (2025). Spatially heterogenous Holocene slip rates drive seismic sequence variability on normal faults. Seismica, 4(2).
• Stiros, S. C. (2025). Demise of the Pilgrimage Town of Philippi (Northern Greece): Structural, Hydrogeological, Historical, and Seismological Implications of an Unrecorded, Seventh Century Strong Earthquake in a Low‐Seismicity Region. Seismological Research Letters.
• Galli, P., Muto, F., & Peronace, E. (2025). Palaeoseismic evidence of a mainshock in the Lamezia Terme area during the March 1638 seismic sequence (MW ~7, Calabria, southern Italy). Bulletin of Geophysics and Oceanography.
• Wils, K., Montalva, G., Van Daele, M., De Batist, M., & Moernaut, J. (2025). Peak Ground Velocity and Shaking Duration Control Coseismic Surficial Sediment Remobilization on Lacustrine Slopes and Emplacement of Seismoturbidites. Seismological Research Letters.
• Xu, C., & Chen, G. (2025). Late Quaternary slip rate variation of the Kuyake to Tula segment of the Altyn Tagh Fault and its regional tectonic implications. Tectonophysics, 230953.
• Koehler, R., Rowe, C., Vlaha, D., Masoch, S., Hart-Wagoner, N., Jiang, Y., … & Vlcan, J. (2025). The 09 December 2024 Mw5. 7 Parker Butte Earthquake: Orthogonal surface fracturing and associated ground disturbances near Yerington, Nevada, central Walker Lane. Seismica, 4(2).
• Jinzhao, L., Dewen, L., Chong, Z., Haoxuan, Z., Gaojian, M., & Zhenming, L. (2025). Late Quaternary Strike-slip Rate and Holocene Paleo-earthquake Events of the Longmu Co-Dulishihu Fault (Longmu Co Segment) in the Western Tibetan Plateau. In Doklady Earth Sciences (Vol. 525, No. 1, pp. 1-15).
• Pisarska-Jamroży, M., Belzyt, S., Bitinas, A., Börner, A., Bronikowska, M., Damušytė, A., Hang, T., Hüneke, H., Jusienė, A., Kenzler, M., Krievans, M., Lamsters, K., Nartišs, M., Obst, K., Putkinen, N., Rosentau, A., Rother, H., Salwowska, A., Steffen, H., Steffen, R., Sutinen, R., Świątek, S., Van Loon, A.J., Woronko, B. & Woźniak, P.P. (2025). Seismicity of the Fennoscandian ice sheet reconstructed from liquefaction features in seismites of the southern Baltic Sea region. Quaternary Science Reviews 369.
• Watters, T. R., & Schmerr, N. C. (2025). Paleoseismic activity in the moon’s Taurus-Littrow valley inferred from boulder falls and landslides. Science Advances, 11(31), eadu3201.
• Li, Y., Li, Z., Zhou, B., Ma, J., & Han, M. (2025). Late Quaternary Fault Activity Along the Eastern Margin Fault of the Daxing Uplift, Southeast Beijing, China, and Implications for the Rupture Behavior of Intraplate Earthquakes. Seismological Research Letters.
• Weon, H. J., Choi, J. H., Han, R., Gu, D., Hong, Y. M., & Kim, C. M. (2025). Dating fault rocks using optically stimulated luminescence: Insights from the northern Yangsan Fault, Korean Peninsula. Tectonophysics, 230956.
• Kilbourne, K. H., Weil‐Accardo, J., Feuillet, N., Deschamps, P., Xu, Y. Y., Shen, C. C., … & Atwater, B. F. (2025). Dating a Medieval Tsunami With Uranium‐Series Techniques on Caribbean Corals. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(19), e2024GL114448.
• Cruz, A., Ghasemi, M., Karimzadeh, S., Karimzadeh, S., Askan, A., Matuoka, M., & Lourenço, P. B. (2025). 28 March 2025 Myanmar Earthquake: Strong Ground Motions, Macroseismic Intensity, Liquefaction, and ALOS‐2 ScanSAR Remote Sensing Damage Observations. Seismological Research Letters.
• Weon, H. J., Choi, J. H., Han, R., Gu, D., Hong, Y. M., & Kim, C. M. (2025). Dating fault rocks using optically stimulated luminescence: Insights from the northern Yangsan Fault, Korean Peninsula. Tectonophysics, 230956.
• Liou. I., & Abrahamson, N. A. (2025). Nonergodic Probabilistic Fault‐Displacement Hazard Analysis. BSSA.
• Iezzi, F., Sgambato, C., Roberts, G., Mildon, Z., Robertson, J., Walker, J. F., … & Vittori, E. (2025). Structural controls on simultaneous earthquake clustering and normal fault synchronization. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 671, 119686.
• Ma, J., Li, Z. F., Zhou, B. G., Wang, M. M., & Motagh, M. (2025). Spatial slip rate partitioning along the Xianshuihe Fault Zone, eastern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Palaeogeography, 100297.
• Alsop, G. I., Marco, S., Weinberger, R., & Levi, T. (2025). A catalogue of extensional and contractional structures generated along gravity-driven detachments. Journal of Structural Geology, 105561.
• Pérez-López, R., Moragas-Segura, N., Elez, J., Silva, P. G., Giner-Robles, J. L., Rodríguez-Pascua, M. A., … & Garduño-Monroy, V. H. (2025). Reply to comment by Suárez et al., did Teotihuacán collapse due to a major earthquake? On “Teotihuacan ancient culture affected by megathrust earthquakes during the early Epiclassic period (Mexico)”. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 105433.
• Sun, X., Shao, Y., Zheng, W., Zhang, D., Bi, H., & Du, J. (2025). Paleoearthquake sequence in the eastern segment of the Serteng Shan frontal fault (Hetao graben, North China) during the last 50 ka. Tectonophysics, 230894.
• Johnson, B. W. W., Kulikova, G., Bergman, E. A., Krueger, F., Pierce, I. K., Hollingsworth, J., & Walker, R. T. (2025). Rupture of the 1949 Khait earthquake on a cryptic fault: Implications for earthquake hazard. Tectonics, 44, e2024TC008777.
• Cox, R., Bourke, M. C., Engel, M., Kennedy, A. B., Lau, A., Suanez, S., … & Watanabe, M. (2025). Understanding extreme-wave hazards on high-energy coasts requires a standardised approach to field data collection: Analysis and recommendations. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences.
• Lazos, I., Sboras, S., Kokkalas, S., Karastathis, V., Xiroudakis, G., Iordanidou, K., … & Pavlides, S. (2025). Seismotectonic implications for the Peloponnese (SW Greece) region based on geodetic crustal deformation analysis. Tectonophysics, 230969.

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