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

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.

• Faral, A., Suryana, I. G. P. E., Lavigne, F., Chapkanski, S., Saulnier-Copard, S., Pageh, M., Made, A. D., Gomez, C., Virmoux, C., Malawani, M. N., Kesiman, M. W. A., Hadmoko, D. S., & Caron, B. (2025). Field evidence of the greatest disaster in Balinese history: The 1815 Geger Bali multi-hazard event in Buleleng. Geomorphology, 109903.
• Elliott, A., Madugo, D., & Vermeer, J. (2025). A Newly Identified Creeping Strand of the Concord Fault, San Francisco Bay Area. SRL.
• Antoniou, D., Kontogianni, V., & Stiros, S. C. (2025). Palaeoseismological Information from Church Repairs Dated by Inscriptions: Evidence from Eighteenth Century Greece. SRL.
• Yan, S., Zhou, L., Yu, S. Y., & Lu, P. (2025). A documentary record of earthquake-induced floods and risk assessment in the lower Yellow River during the past 700 years. The Holocene, 1, 9.
• Jbara, A., & Tsesarsky, M. (2025). Dynamic fragility of a slender rock pillar in a carbonate rock mass. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 25(7), 2197-2213.
• DiMonte, A. A., Ault, A. K., Shreedharan, S., & Hirth, G. (2025). Frictional behavior of the southern San Andreas fault reveals ability to host shallow slow slip events. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(12), e2025GL116498.
• Galli, P., Bello, S., Brozzetti, F., Galderisi, A., Naso, G., Pignalosa, A., … & Peronace, E. (2025). Paleoseismic evidence for the Mw∼ 7 1857 earthquake along the Caggiano fault system (southern Italian Apennines). Quaternary Science Reviews, 365, 109508.
• Shvarev, S. V., Nikolaeva, S. B., Bondar, I. V., Koroleva, A. O., & Komarov, A. O. (2025). Morphotectonics of the Imandra–Kolvitsky Fault and Parameters of the Focal Zone of Paleoearthquakes in the Luvenga Tundra (Kola Peninsula). Seismic Instruments, 1-23.
• Arora, S., Meenan, N., Srivastava, E., Cochran, D., Singh, G., Williams, A., Dhali, M., Kumaiya, M., Arrowsmith, R., Malik, J. N., & Kondo, H. (2025). Earthquake rupture variability along the central seismic gap segment (78°–82° E) of the Himalayan Frontal Thrust, Western and Central Himalaya. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 21916.
• Pucci, S., Caciagli, M., Azzaro, R., Di Manna, P., Blumetti, A. M., Poggi, V., … & Tatar, O. (2025). Examples of Rupture Patterns of the 2023, Mw 7.8 Kahramanmaraş Surface-Faulting Earthquake, Türkiye. Geosciences.
• Stephenson, W. J., Dickson, M. E., Hurst, M. D., Omidiji, J., Horton, S. L., Litchfield, N. J., … & McLean, A. D. (2025). Are Holocene coseismic marine terrace sequences complete paleoseismic records? Rapid erosion of a new marine terrace created during the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake suggests not!. Geology.
• Vega-Ruiz, A., Cortés-Aranda, J., Aguilera, R., Astudillo-Sotomayor, L., Riedel, M., Espinoza, M., … & Navarro, L. (2025). Pliocene to Holocene deformation and earthquake potential of the Mesamávida fault, West Andean Thrust System of central-southern Chile (36ºS). Tectonics.
• Rudmann, J., Wilk, J., & Kenkmann, T. (2025). Morphotectonics and tectonic evolution of the Northern Markgräflerland, southern Upper Rhine Graben, Germany; Morphotectonics and tectonic evolution of the Northern Markgräflerland, southern Upper Rhine Graben, Germany. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Geowissenschaften, 176(2), 277-299.
• Pawlik, M. P., Nguy, Q. A. T., Bernsdorf, B., Rudolph, T., Haske, B. (2025). The Use of Multisensoral Drone Monitoring to Fault’s Zones in Areas Affected by Mining Activities. Civil and Environmental Engineering Reports, 35(3), 108-135.
• Brandes, C., Steffen, H., Steffen, R., Li, T., & Wu, P. (2025). Effects of the last quaternary glacial forebulge on vertical land movement, sea‐level change, and lithospheric stresses. Reviews of Geophysics, 63(3), e2024RG000852.
• Vittori, E., Puzzilli, L., Delmonaco, G., Traversa, F., Ruscito, V., Reba, Y. B., … & Diop, S. (2025). Ground fissures in the Central Ethiopian Rift: insights on distribution, genesis and hazard. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 105746.
• Williams, J. N., Stirling, M. W., Howell, A., Niroula, G. P., DiCaprio, C. J., McGrath, J., Gerstenberger, M. C., Coffey, G. L., Griffin, J. D., Van Dissen, R., Penney, C., & Chamberlain, C. (2025). Evaluating and Comparing Seismicity Rate Models in the Low‐Strain‐Rate Otago Region, Aotearoa, New Zealand. BSSA.
• Çetinalp, K. A., & Şengör, A. M. (2025). Byzantine views on earthquakes, seismoskopoi and the origin of the term seismology. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 1-4.
• Yanites, B. J., Clark, M. K., Roering, J. J., West, A. J., Zekkos, D., Baldwin, J. W., … & Pierce, J. (2025). Cascading land surface hazards as a nexus in the Earth system. Science, 388(6754), eadp9559.
• Thompson Jobe, J. A., Hanagan, C., Hatem, A., Barnhart, W. D., Goldberg, D. E., & Yeck, W. L. (2025). Surface Rupture from an Aftershock: Remote Observations from the January 2024 Wushi (Aykol), China, Earthquakes. SRL.
• Devendra, D., Łącka, M., Szymańska, N., Nethupul, H., Pawłowska, J., Szymczak-Żyła, M., … & Zajączkowski, M. (2025). Expanding the footprint of the Storegga tsunami through new evidence from Arctic marine sediments. Scientific Reports, 24809.
• Katsonopoulou, D., Koukouvelas, I., & Kormann, M. (2025). Earthquake Destruction and Resilience in Ancient Helike, Gulf of Corinth, Greece: A Case Study of Past Human–Environment Relationship. Land, 14(7), 1392.
• Pang, L., Lu, H., Lü, Y., Mao, Z., Zhao, J., Jiang, Y., … & Li, Y. (2025). Fold growth and lateral propagation across the Xihu anticline documented by fluvial terraces in the northern Chinese Tian Shan foreland. Tectonics, 44(7), e2024TC008388.
• Milliner, C., Avouac, J. P., Dolan, J. F., & Hollingsworth, J. (2025). Localization of inelastic strain with fault maturity and effects on earthquake characteristics. Nature Geoscience, 1-8.
• Meyer, A. F., Stirling, M. W., Griffin, J. D., Tarling, M. S., Stirling, T. W., & Thomsen, J. M. (2025). Paleoseismology of the Long Valley Fault, Central Otago, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 1-8.
• Coca, O., Ramírez-Herrera, M. T., Gaidzik, K., Forman, S. L., Vargas-Espinosa, V., Velázquez-Maldonado, L. R., … & Ruiz-Fernández, A. C. (2025). Reconstructing Holocene seismic and tsunami history along the Rio Grande coast, Oaxaca, Mexico. Marine Geology, 107617.
• Kalligeris, N., Synolakis, C., England, P., Jackson, J., & Walker, R. (2025). Implications of the 9 July 1956 MS∼ 7.2 Amorgos earthquake for tsunami hazard in the Aegean. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(14), e2025GL115297.
• Pousse-Beltran, L., Lallemand, T., Audin, L., Lacan, P., Nuñez-Meneses, A. D., & Giffard-Roisin, S. (2025). ScarpLearn: an automatic scarp height measurement of normal fault scarps using convolutional neural networks. Seismica, 4(2).
• Koçbulut, F., Akgün, E., Softa, M., Koşaroğlu, S., & Tatar, O. (2025). Paleoseismological analysis of the Palu Segment within the East Anatolian fault system: Implications for seismic hazard assessment. Journal of Mountain Science, 22(7), 2332-2355.
• 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.
• Gihm, Y. S., Cheon, Y., & Ko, K. (2025). Down-sagging fine-grained sediments into coarse-grained substrate: A new category of soft-sediment deformation structures and its paleoseismological implications. Sedimentary Geology, 106936.
• de Pro Díaz, Y., Díaz, J. J. M., & Catalán, C. C. (2025). The 1804 Alborán seismic series: Search for the source using seismic scenarios and static stress interactions. Seismica, 4(2).
• Buforn, E., Fernández‐Fraile, J., Cesca, S., Sanz de Galdeano, C., Martínez‐Solares, J. M., Udías, A., … & Márquez‐Reviriego, D. (2025). The 1884 Andalusian Earthquake, Spain: Re‐evaluation of Seismic Intensities and Source Determination. Seismological Research Letters.
• Kearse, J., & Kaneko, Y. (2025). Curved fault slip captured by CCTV video during the 2025 Mw 7.7 Mandalay earthquake. The Seismic Record, 5 (3): 281–288.
• Cihat Alçiçek, M., Brogi, A., Capezzuoli, E., Lazarev, S., & Celal Şengör, A. M. (2025). Multiple coseismic soft-sediment deformation reveal abrupt sedimentation change in Lower Pleistocene lacustrine deposits of the Denizli Basin (Western Türkiye). Journal of the Geological Society, jgs2025-076.
• Castelli, V., & Stucchi, M. (2025). The hypothesis of the 1513/1514 very large earthquake in the East Anatolian Fault Zone: rise and weakness. Journal of Seismology, 1-12.
• Ren, G., Li, C., Wu, C., Sun, K., Luo, Q., Zhang, X., & Zou, B. (2025). Geometry and Kinematics of the North Karlik Tagh Fault: Implications for the Transpressional Tectonics of Easternmost Tian Shan. Remote Sensing, 17(14), 2498.
• Uski, M., Oinonen, K., Lund, B., Soosalu, H., Ottemöller, L., Sørensen, M. B., … & Korja, A. (2025). FENCAT-An Update of the Fennoscandian Earthquake Catalogue. Geophysical Journal International, ggaf242.
• Bazzucchi, C., Crosetto, S., Ballato, P., Wittmann, H., Faccenna, C., Scherler, D., et al. (2025). Building topography in a continental subduction orogen: Insights from geomorphic analysis and ¹⁰Be denudation rates of the Albanides. Tectonics, 44, e2024TC008642.
• Çağatay, M. N., Biltekin, D., Yakupoğlu, N., Güngör, E., Güngör, N., Uçarkuş, G., … & Sabuncu, A. (2025). Long–term sedimentary earthquake records along the northern branch the North Anatolian Fault in the Sea Marmara (NW Türkiye). Marine Geology, 107630.
• Manta, K., Rousakis, G., Geraga, M., Papatheodorou, G., Sakellariou, D., Patiris, D., … & Karageorgis, A. P. (2025). Sedimentological characteristics of Mass Transport Deposits (MTDs) triggered by the Amorgos 1956 earthquake: sediment provenance and geochemical elements. Geo-Marine Letters, 45(3), 1-17.
• Bai, Z., Shi, X., Chen, H., Shu, Y., Wang, J., Liu, X., … & Hilley, G. (2025). Consistent cumulative slip rates but shifting fault strand activity in the Xiaojiang Fault Zone, southeastern Tibetan Plateau, across decadal and millennial timescales. Tectonics, 44(8), e2025TC008905.
• Rizza, M., Pousse, L., Fleury, J., Dubois, C., Baikulov, S., & Abdrakhmatov, K. (2025). Rethinking the 1946 Chatkal earthquake: Contributions of Pléiades and UAV images to a surface-rupturing event along the Talas-Fergana Fault. Tectonophysics, 230863.
• Moernaut, J., Boes, E., Melnick, D., Carvajal, M., Niederstätter, M., Schmidt, S., … & De Batist, M. (2025). A continuous 500‐year sediment record of inundation by local and distant tsunamis in South‐Central Chile (40.1° S). The Depositional Record.
• Li, K., Wang, H., Chen, L., Deng, L., Xue, H., Wen, X., & Cai, J. (2025). Late Quaternary slip rates and paleoseismicity on the western segment of the Jiali fault zone and implications for tectonic deformation and slip partitioning in the central Tibetan Plateau. Tectonics, 44(7), e2025TC009002.
• Hough, S. E., Lamontagne, M., Ebel, J., & Baise, L. (2025). Reflections on a Trio of North American Earthquakes in 1925. Seismological Research Letters.
• Fernández, F. J., Pérez Valera, F., & Escuder-Viruete, J. (2025). Soft-sediment deformation structures in Holocene coastal gravel deposits reveal two 1.8–2.0 ka old Mw> 7.0 earthquakes in southern-central Hispaniola. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 26793.

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