New papers on paleoseismology, active tectonics, and archaeoseismology (Oct 2026)

This time we have two whole books in our list that will be surely of interest. One is about Himalayan Hazards, the other one is about the geomorphological impact of earthquakes. A rather large number of studies deals with faults, tsunamis, and earthquakes in Europe. Of course we also have plenty of papers covering other regions and methodological studies.
Enjoy reading!

• Davies, T., Densmore, A., & Fan, X. (2026). Geomorphic Impacts of Earthquakes. Elsevier.
• Tiwari, V. M. (Ed.) (2026). Himalayan Natural Hazards. Springer Singapore, 418 pp.
• Szrek, J., Crosetto, S., Metzger, S., Gomba, G., Faccenna, C., & Jolivet, R. (2026). Aseismic slip along the evaporite‐rich strike‐slip Katouna‐Stamna Fault in Greece. Geophysical Research Letters, 53(18), e2026GL126477.
• Rossato, S., Martin, S., Ivy-Ochs, S., Viganò, A., Monegato, G., Prosser, G., … & Rigo, M. (2026). Landslide clusters in the Tovel Valley (Brenta Dolomites, N Italy) triggered by far field earthquakes?. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 114180.
• Szczygieł, J., Dąbrowski, M., Fernandez, O., Hellstrom, J., & Grasemann, B. (2026). Built to last: Long-term stability of steep deglaciated slopes of alpine karst plateaus (Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria). Engineering Geology, 108924.
• Kundu, S., Mandal, S. K., & Scherler, D. (2026). Base‐level‐driven erosional and tectonic controls on drainage divide asymmetry in fold‐thrust belts. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 131(8), e2026JF009139.
• Meridi, A., Métois, M., Lasserre, C., Doin, M.-P., & Durand, P. (2026). Present-day kinematics of continental Greece and Balkans revealed by Sentinel-1 InSAR data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 131, e2026JB033831.
• Mihevc, A., Haeuselmann, P., & Fiebig, M. (2026). Timing of uplift at the Periadriatic Line evidenced by cave sediments. Acta Carsologica, 55(1), 37-43.
• Shnizai, Z., Liu, Z., Walker, R. T., Waizy, H., & Hussain, E. (2026). Seismotectonic aspects of the 2025 Kunar earthquake, Afghanistan: Insights from field observations and InSAR-based remote sensing. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 107341.
• Torabi, A. H., Kandregula, R. S., Naik, S. P., Shnizai, Z., Ghildiyal, D., Chufal, V. S., & Kim, Y. S. (2026). Evidence for distributed transpressional deformation and seismic hazard implications from the 2025 Mw 6.0 Asadabad-Kunar earthquake, Eastern Afghanistan. Natural Hazards, 122(18), 624.
• Yeo, T., Ujiie, K., Inoue, K., Nagaya, T., & Hirauchi, K. I. (2026). Coseismic dislocation creep and recrystallization in a shallow carbonate-hosted active fault. Geology.
• Niederstätter, M., Wils, K., Molenaar, A., Benischke, S., Moreno Allende, V., Van Daele, M., Konzett, J., Gastineau, R., Sabatier, P, Evrard, O., Nicolas Haas, J., Doom, L., Guzmán-Marín, P., Araya-Cornejo, C., Ortler, M., Raiber, S., Griesser, A., Lisson, K., Herreman, J., Pynaert, N., Fontijn, K., Melnick, D., De Batist, M., Urrutia, R., Pino, M., & Moernaut, J., (2026). Multi-lake turbidite records of Chilean megathrust earthquakes: Refining the use of turbidite volume as paleoseismic proxy. Quaternary Science Reviews, 392, 110272.
• Torabi, M., Fattahi, M., Amini, H., Ghassemi, M. R., Büdel, C., Koochi, Z. R., & Fuchs, M. (2026). Constraining the late quaternary left-lateral slip rate of the western Doruneh fault system, central Iran, based on OSL chronology of faulted playa deposits. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 107322.
• Park, K., Moon, S. W., Noh, J., Naik, S. P., Seo, Y. S., Kang, S. S., & Kim, Y. S. (2026). Seismic Stability Assessment of a Tunnel Crossing an Active Fault: Numerical Analysis Based on Paleoseismic Trench Data. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 1-23.
• Zou, J., Shi, F., He, H., Wei, Z., Shao, Z., Deng, Y., … & Li, W. (2026). Extraction of knickpoint series based on high-resolution DEM and identification of paleo-earthquakes: A case study of the Yuguang Basin Boundary Fault in the Shanxi Rift, China. Geomorphology, 110540.
• Gioia, D., Corrado, G., Contillo, L., Minervino Amodio, A., & Schiattarella, M. (2026). Lithological, geomorphological and tectonic control on landslide processes in Southern Italy: insights from a regional inventory and metrics of landscape evolution. Natural Hazards, 122(18), 610.
• Haider, R., Javed, H., Gardezi, S.A.H., Ali, S., Hoffmann, G., & Reicherter, K. (2026). Tsunami amplification and time-delay mechanism; an insight into the case study of the 1945 tsunami event, Makran coast, Pakistan. Nat Hazards 122, 634.
• Takahashi, T., Ogura, T., Iizuka, K. et al. (2026). Rapid fluvial response to meter-scale coseismic coastal uplift during the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake. Commun Earth Environ 7, 742.
• Chen, H., Du, S., Luo, F., Yan, Y., Li, Y., & Ha, G. (2026). Paleoseismic record on the Menshi segment of the Karakorum fault zone, southwestern Tibetan Plateau and its tectonic implications. Geomorphology, 110536.
• Del Sole, L., Aldega, L., Liu‐Zeng, J., Sun, Z., Moretto, V., Pizzati, M., … & Viola, G. (2026). Fluidized Gouge Injections Record Fluid Overpressure Transients and Seismic Slip in Clay‐Rich Fault Zones. Seismological Research Letters.
• Coca, O., Ramírez-Herrera, M. T. (2026). Far-Field Tsunami Observations of the 29 July 2025 Mw 8.8 Kamchatka Earthquake and Comparison with other Far-Field Tsunamis on the Mexican Pacific Coast. Pure Appl. Geophys.
• He, P., Wen, Y., Deng, D., Liu‐Zeng, J., Craig, T. J., Guo, S., … & Xu, C. (2026). Multisensor Observations of Shallow Rupture and Surface Deformation of the 2025 M w 5.4 Xinlong Earthquake on a Previously Unmapped Normal Fault in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau. Seismological Research Letters.
• Mäntyniemi, P., & Persson, L. (2026). Consequences of Small‐to‐Moderate (⁠4.0–5.5) Earthquakes: Examples from the Fennoscandian Shield in 1882 and 1904. SRL.
• Wood, J., Bell, R. E., Whittaker, A. C., Coveney, S. M., Chanier, F., Caroir, F., … & Ganas, A. (2026). Fault Migration and Basin Evolution During Complex Rifting: Examples From the Western North Gulf of Evia, Greece. Basin Research, 38(4), e70127.
• Bonatis, P., Karakostas, V., Foumelis, M., Papadimitriou, E., Kaplon, J., Kaviris, G., & Pikridas, C. (2026). Post-seismic deformation associated with the 2020 MW7.0 Samos (Aegean Sea) earthquake constrained by InSAR and GNSS observations. Geodesy and Geodynamics.
• Llamas, D. C. E., Perez, J., Buhay, D. J. J., Managahas-Flores, R., Dizon, M., Grutas, R. N., … & Del Rio, A. B. G. (2026). Source Fault, Impacts, and Seismotectonic Implications of the 2025 Magnitude (MW) 6.9 Northern Cebu Earthquake, Philippines. Frontiers in Earth Science, 14, 1920046.
• Gong, Z., Li, H., Tang, F., Wang, S., & Li, C. (2026). Growth of an evolving fault zone: coseismic deformation, fault zone structure, and fault rocks of the 2023 Mw 7.8 Pazarcik earthquake (East Anatolian Fault). Journal of Structural Geology, 105807.
• Li, Z., Wu, Z., Huang, F., Huang, X., & Wang, S. (2026). Fault-Displaced Paleolandslide Constraints on the Late Quaternary Left-Lateral Slip Rate of the Qina Segment of the Chenghai Fault Zone. Quaternary, 9(5), 62.
• Re, G., Caciagli, M., Pucci, S., Di Vincenzo, G., & Del Carlo, P. (2026). Tephra deposits as chronostratigraphic markers in active tectonic basins (Val d’Agri, Southern Apennines, Italy). Quaternary International, 784, 110466.
• Rashidi, A., Solaymani-Azad, S., Rashidi, A., Shafieibafti, S., Nemati, M., Abbaspour, R., & Derakhshani, R. (2026). Strain partitioning across the Sabzevaran–Jiroft fault system at the Zagros–Central Iran–Makran transition. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 107344.
• Olita, F., Giano, S. I., Bentivenga, M., Messina, S., Piccarreta, M., & Prosser, G. (2026). Quaternary Fluvial Terraces as Markers of Climate and Tectonics in the Bradanic Foredeep, Southern Italy. Water, 18(17), 2106.
• Thompson Jobe, J., Briggs, R., Diaz, V. O., Lynch, E. M., Hughes, K. S., Pratt, T., … & Gray, H. (2026). The Parguera Fault System: Possible Quaternary Reactivation of Bedrock Faults in Southwest Puerto Rico. Tectonics, 45(9), e2026TC009355.
• McCreary, M. E., Moore, J. R., Jensen, E. K., Gischig, V. S., Staley, D. M., & Collins, B. D. (2026). Numerical Modelling of Late Pleistocene to Holocene Earthquake‐Induced Progressive Rock Slope Damage in the Paraglacial Serpentine Valley, Prince William Sound, Alaska. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 51(9), e70399.
• O’Kane, A., & Copley, A. (2026). Regional-Scale Controls on Earthquake Ground Motions and their Implications for Assessing Historical Earthquake Magnitudes. BSSA.
• Kázmér, M., Nur Faqih An Nahar, R., & Gaidzik, K. (2026). Disaster history of the Prambanan temple complex (Java, Indonesia) – an archaeoseismological study. Quaternary International 784, 110468.
• Schwichtenberg, B., Berger, A., Schrank, C., Jones, M. W., Kewish, C. M., Neuenschwander, T., & Herwegh, M. (2026). Coupled mechanical deformation and fluid–rock interactions drive cyclic healing in carbonate faults: Insights from a paleoseismic system. Journal of Structural Geology, 105816.
• Lyazidi, A., Azennoud, K., Gartit, J., Louaya, A., Alaoui, B. L., Hakam, O., … & Baali, A. (2026). Climate and paleoseismicity co-recorded in a tectono-karstic Lake: a multi-proxy late Pleistocene–Holocene record from Lake Iffer (Middle Atlas, Morocco). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 114236.
• Gibbons, S. J., Bondevik, S., Kurjanski, B., de la Asunción, M., Magni, V., Sánchez, J. M., … & Løvholt, F. (2026). Propagation of the Storegga tsunami in the southeastern North Sea. Quaternary Science Advances, 100345.
• Şahiner, E., Koralay, T., Söğüt, B., Sezgin, T., & Kadıoğlu, Y. K. (2026). Bayesian archaeoseismic chronology of the Stratonikeia Frigidarium from construction to seismic collapse. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 18(10), 203.
• Whitehead, S. J., Yeager, K. M., McGlue, M. M., Thigpen, J. R., Schindler, K. J., & Woolery, E. W. (2026). Investigation of paleoseismic deposits in Jackson Lake, WY associated with the far afield 1959 Mw 7.2 Hebgen Lake earthquake (MT, USA). Sedimentary Geology, 107129.
• Litchfield, N., Marshall, J., McKinney, E., Hamel, J., Miller, C., Coffey, G., Howell, A., Morgenstern, R., & Clark, K. (2026). Untangling Upper‐Plate Fault and Subduction Earthquakes Using Holocene Marine Terraces, Cape Kidnappers Coast, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. BSSA.
• Gaidzik, K., Tyc, A., Mendecki, M., Romański, P., Ciesielczuk, J., Benavente, M., … & Kázmér, M. (2026). Repeated settlement abandonment and relocation in the Upper Colca Region (Peru): An archaeoseismological perspective. Journal of Archaeological Science, 195, 106703.
• Zhou, Y., Zhang, S., Xu, Q., Qian, J., Tang, M., Zhao, W., … & Chen, Y. (2026). Fatality outcomes in the 2025 Ms 6.8 Tingri earthquake: Roles of seismic hazard, structural damage, and human behavioral response. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 106437.

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