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

Here are the latest papers on active tectonics and paleoseismology. Happy 2025 everyone! 

• Yang, H., Lin, D., Yang, X., Cunningham, D., Hu, Z., Huang, X., et al. (2024). Strain partitioning and strike-slip faulting in the Nanjieshan, North Tibetan Foreland: Progressive widening of the Altyn Tagh Fault system with implications for regional earthquake hazards. Tectonics, 43, e2024TC008262.
• Pinzon, N., Klinger, Y., Xu, X., Tapponnier, P., Liu‐Zeng, J., Van Der Woerd, J., … & Gao, M. (2024). Spatiotemporal Clustering of Large Earthquakes Along the Central‐Eastern Sections of the Altyn Tagh Fault, China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129(12), e2024JB028912.
• Fukushima, Y., Ishimura, D., Takahashi, N., Iwasa, Y., Malatesta, L. C., Takahashi, T., Tang, C.-H., Yoshida, K., & Toda, S. (2024). Landscape changes caused by the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake in Japan. Sci. Adv. 10, eadp9193.
• Lemot, F., Sabatier, P., Chevalier, M.-L., Develle, A.-L., Fang, Z., Rioual, P., et al. (2024). Building a multilake paleoseismometer for the Xianshuihe fault (Tibetan Plateau, China). Tectonics, 43, e2024TC008508.
• Pena-Castellnou, S., Hürtgen, J., Baize, S., Jomard, H., Cushing, E. M., Abbas, W. & Reicherter, K. (2025). Active faulting of the southern segment of the Rhine River Fault, southern Germany: Geomorphological and paleoseismological evidence. Quaternary International, 716, 109589.
• Kázmér, M., Major, B., Al-Tawalbeh, M., & Gaidzik, K. (2024). Destructive intraplate earthquakes in Arabia – The archaeoseismological evidence. In: Abd el-aziz Khairy Abd el-aal, Abdullah Al-Enezi, Qusaie E. Karam (eds), Environmental Hazards in the Arabian Gulf Region. Assessments and Solutions. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research 54, 31-49. Springer.
• Kázmér, M., & Gaidzik, K. (2024). Seismic activity along the Periadriatic and Sava Faults in the past two millennia – an archaeoseismological assessment. Geosciences 14, 331.
• Morgenstern, R., Litchfield, N. J., Langridge, R. M., Heron, D. W., Townsend, D. B., Villamor, P., … & Easterbrook-Clarke, L. H. (2024). New Zealand Active Faults Database: the high-resolution dataset v2.0. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 1-16.
• Wu, C. H., Cui, P., Klinger, Y., Tan, X. B., Yi, S. J., & Li, Y. S. (2024). Pre-existing off-fault damage can impede coseismic on-fault slip. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL111198.
• Du, P., Li, L., Kopf, A., Wang, D., Chen, K., Shi, H., … & Zhang, P. (2024). Earthquake-induced Submarine Landslides (EQISLs) and a comparison with their Terrestrial Counterparts: Insights from a New Database. Earth-Science Reviews, 105021.
• Sarkawi, G.M., Feng, L., McCaughey, J.W. et al. (2024). Insights into tectonic hazards since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. Nat Rev Earth Environ.
• Morey, A. E., & Goldfinger, C. (2024). A 2700-year record of Cascadia megathrust and crustal/slab earthquakes from Acorn Woman Lakes, Oregon. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 24(12), 4563-4584.
• Mere, A. M., Barth, N. C., Schwartz, J. J., & Kylander‐Clark, A. (2024). Slip history, tectonic evolution, and fault zone structure along the southern Alpine Fault, New Zealand. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25(11), e2024GC011839.
• Liu, S., Lan, H., Strom, A., Li, L., & Bao, H. (2024). Spatial segmentation of Jiali Fault’s Holocene activity in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. npj Natural Hazards, 1(1), 1-12.
• Ghasemi, M., Ghaffarian, S., Karimzadeh, S., Matsuoka, M., Miura, H., & Feizizadeh, B. (2024). Evaluating Multi-Hazard Preparedness for a Major Earthquake: A Case Study of Tabriz City (NW Iran). International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 105086.
• Jiménez-Bonilla, A., Martegani, L., Rodríguez-Rodríguez, M., Gázquez, F., Díaz-Azpíroz, M., Martos, S., … & Expósito, I. (2024). The role of neotectonics and climate variability in the Pleistocene-to-Holocene hydrological evolution of the Fuente de Piedra playa lake (southern Iberian Peninsula). Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 28(23), 5311-5329.
• Hughes, L., Lane, E. M., Power, W., Savage, M. K., Arnold, R., Howell, A., … & Nicol, A. (2024). Effects of Subduction Interface Locking Distributions on Tsunami Hazard: a Case Study on the Hikurangi/Tonga-Kermadec Subduction Zones. Geophysical Journal International, ggae441.
• Antoine, S. L., Klinger, Y., Wang, K., & Bürgmann, R. (2024). Coseismic shallow slip deficit accounted for by diffuse off-fault deformation. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL110798.
• Yu, Z., Min, W., Zhang, P., Qiu, C., Wang, W., Kang, J., & Liu, S. (2024). Holocene activities and tectonic implications of the Da’an-Dedu Fault Zone in the Songliao Basin, NE China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 106464.
• Urrejola-Sanhueza, J. T. G., Sepúlveda, S. A., Pinto, L., & Moreiras, S. M. (2025). Linking large-volume landslides with potential neotectonic activity of the Pocuro fault system, Central Andes (32°-33° S). Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 152, 105320.
• Neefs, B., Van Noten, K., Vanneste, K., Camelbeeck, T. (2024). The Belgian traditional macroseismic (BTM) database of the twentieth century. J Seismol.
• Niu, P., Han, Z., Guo, P., Ma, S., & Ma, H. (2024). New Evidence of Holocene Faulting Activity and Strike-Slip Rate of the Eastern Segment of the Sunan–Qilian Fault from UAV-Based Photogrammetry and Radiocarbon Dating, NE Tibetan Plateau. Remote Sensing, 16(24), 4704.
• Simpson, E. L., Wizevich, M. C., & Fillmore, D. L. (2024). Seismites of the Late Triassic Lockatong Formation, Pennsylvania, USA: implications for Newark Basin border fault movement. Journal of Palaeogeography.
• Heydari, M., & Ghassemi, M. R. (2024). Revisiting the Dip-Slip Rate of the North Tehran Fault (Northern Iran) Through Luminescence Dating of Faulted Materials and Geomorphic Markers. Tectonophysics.
• Mammarella, L., Visini, F., Boncio, P., Baize, S., Scotti, O., Beauval, C., … & Thompson, S. (2024). Conditional probability of surface rupture: A numerical approach for principal faulting. Earthquake Spectra, 87552930241293570.
• Vega‐Ruiz, A., Victor, P., Reicherter, K., Binnie, A., Evenstar, L., González, G., & Binnie, S. A. (2025). New insights into active tectonics and landscape evolution of the northernmost Chilean central depression. Tectonics, 44(1), e2024TC008335.
  

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