The registration for the next PATA Days is now open! PATA Days are the main activity of TERPRO’s project CHAMP. The 2026 international workshop on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics, and Archeoseismology will be held in Guatemala to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1976 Guatemala M7.5 Earthquake.
Limited INQUA funding is available to support the participation of ECRs and DCRs (application deadline 15 September).
Find all information on program, deadlines, costs and much more at the conference website: https://www.pata2026.org/
More background on the PATA Days workshop series as well as download links for all previous abstract volumes and field guides can be found at http://pata-days.org/.
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This month’s list is very very long and I guess everyone will find something to their taste. Enjoy reading and don’t hesitate to drop us a note in case we’ve missed something. Also, get in touch if you want to write a short blog post about your latest project/paper/field work on paleoseismology.
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The Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, seeks to appoint a full-time Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Active Faulting and Earthquake Hazards. The post holder will report to Prof. Richard Walker, Principal Investigator on the project.
The successful candidate will work closely with Prof. Richard Walker, along with the broader COMET community, on a project sponsored by the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) aimed at providing active fault maps and information about earthquake potential and related hazards in proximity to major hydropower developments in Kyrgyzstan. The project will involve both remote-sensing and field-based observations and data collection. It will provide outputs to the World Bank CAWEP (Central Asia Water Energy Power) programme to aid the design process, leading to more resilient development. An important second aim of the project is in working with networks of institutes in central Asia to strengthen capacity, and to develop further efforts in hazard identification across the region.
Closing Date & Time: 01-Aug-2025 12:00
More details here.
This time, our list contains a lot of studies on active tectonics the Americas and on tsunami deposits, but you will also find interesting studies on Asia and the Med. Enjoy reading, don’t forget to apply sun screen, and let us know if we’ve missed something cool.
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The International Symposium on Seismic Risk, Urbanization, and Resilience (SURE-MED) 2025, will take place in Constantine, Algeria, from 27-29 October 2025. This event commemorates 40 years since the 1985 Constantine earthquake and aims to advance seismic resilience in the Western Mediterranean.
It includes a one-day, post-meeting field trip to the Tell Atlas on October 29, 2025, focusing on active faults, morphotectonics, and geohazards in the Constantine Basin (NE Algeria), including the archaeological site of Tiddis. The symposium also features dynamic sessions, hands-on workshops, and an exhibition, fostering collaboration among seismologists, engineers, and urban planners.
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Today’s list of papers includes a large number of publications on the Tibetan Plateau, but earthquake aficionados will also find interesting studies on methodological aspects of earthquake geology and case studies from Europa, the Americas, and Aotearoa / New Zealand. Enjoy reading and let us know if we’ve missed something!
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The University of Canterbury has an interesting open position in Ōtautahi / Christchurch, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Active Tectonics and Geomorphology: https://jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/ajid/wO5F9/Lecturer-Senior-Lecturer-in-Active-Tectonics-and-Geomorphology,26259.
(There are also two open positions there in Engineering Geology: https://jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/ajid/b36F9/Lecturer-Senior-Lecturer-in-Engineering-Geology,26260)
(Thanks Camilla for pointing me to those two!)
At GFZ Potsdam (Germany), there’s an open position for a postdoc on submarine tectonics: https://www.gfz.de/en/career/job-offers/details/10408
And there’s another open postdoc in active tectonics at GFZ: https://www.gfz.de/en/career/job-offers/details/10395
And they are also looking for a section head in Space Geodesy: https://www.gfz.de/en/career/job-offers/details/10285
Most studies in this month’s list deal with the active tectonics of Asia and the Mediterranean, but we have a wide variety of different methods covered. Make sure to check out the latest applications of the ESI2007 scale. There are also very interesting papers on fault interaction and fault behaviour in general, about cascading hazards, and about quakes in lakes. And of course there is the really cool “InSAR lookbook”. Enjoy reading!
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All eyes are on the horrible consequences of the Myanmar Earthquake right now. Let’s hope that on the long term, this event helps us to be better prepared for large earthquakes elsewhere. Meanwhile, lots of interesting papers have been published, among them many that deal with seismic hazard and cascading effects and actually also one on Myanmar (Sethanant et al., 2025). Let us know in the comments of there’s something missing.
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