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

This is the latest list of papers on paleoearthquakes and related fields. Enjoy reading and let us know in case we’ve missed something. 

• Szczygieł, J., Zasadni, J., Kłapyta, P., Woszczycka, M., Gaidzik, K., Mendecki, M., Sobczyk, A., & Grützner, C. (2025). The curious case of a short fault scarp in the Podhale Basin: Implications for late Pleistocene geodynamics of the central Western Carpathians. Geomorphology.
• Wilkinson, R., Daout, S., Walker, R. T., Dodds, N., & Ischuk, A. (2025). Aseismic slip on the Ilyak Strike-slip fault (Tajikistan) and active fault and landslide hazards in and around the Tajik Basin revealed by InSAR. Tectonics, 44, e2025TC008860.
• Wang, S., Fang, L., Chevalier, M. L., Li, H., Li, J., Huang, L., … & Yao, Y. (2025). Seismogenic fault model of the 2024 Mw 7.0 Wushi earthquake, western China, from geomorphology and aftershock relocation. Geological Society of America Bulletin.
• La Greca, J., Langridge, R. M., Quigley, M. C., Morgenstern, R., Coffey, G., & Kulesza, O. (2025). Influence of structural maturity on the rupture morphology of the northern Alpine Fault, Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130(12), e2025JB031578.
• Tringali, G., Bella, D., Livio, F. A., Blumetti, A. M., Groppelli, G., Guerrieri, L., … & Michetti, A. M. (2025). New paleoseismological and morphotectonic investigations along the 2018 surface ruptures of the Fiandaca Fault, eastern flank of Etna volcano (Italy). Solid Earth, 16(12), 1473-1491.
• Aykut, T., Uysal, I. T., Yıldırım, C., Ustaömer, T., & Leonard, N. (2026). Long-term faulting history of the Central Taurides based on U-Pb dating of syn-tectonic calcites. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 675, 119763.
• Sandroni, P., Church, N. S., Coccioni, R., Frontalini, F., Mainiero, M., & Montanari, A. (2025). Reptile footprints on a pelagic seafloor as a vestige of a synsedimentary seismic event in the lower Campanian Scaglia Rossa Basin of the Umbria-Marche Apennines (Italy). Cretaceous Research, 106268.
• Chebotarev, A. A., Arzhannikova, A. V., Arzhannikov, S. G., Ritz, J. F., & Avagyan, A. V. (2025). New paleoseismological constraints on the seismic activity along the eastern Tunka Fault (SW Baikal Rift). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 106901.
• Han, J., Bi, H., Zheng, W., Qiu, H., Yang, F., Chen, X., & Yang, J. (2025). Investigating an Earthquake Surface Rupture Along the Kumysh Fault (Eastern Tianshan, Central Asia) from High-Resolution Topographic Data. Remote Sensing, 17(23), 3847.
• Li, B., Jónsson, S., Suhendi, C., Liu, J., Li, D., Delorme, A., … & Mai, P. M. (2025). Seismic gap breached by the 2025 M w 7.7 Mandalay (Myanmar) earthquake. Nature Geoscience, 1-9.
• Yen, I. C., Yen, J. Y., Huang, S. Y., Hsu, Y. C., Widiatmoko, F. R., Huang, W. J., … & Chang, C. P. (2025). Neotectonic Framework of Eastern Taiwan: Insights from Coseismic Rupture Patterns of the 2022 Chihshang Earthquake and Paleoseismic Investigations. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
• Dasent, J., Wright, V., Scharer, K., Manga, M., & Kilburn, R. (2025). Memory and jamming in fault zone sediments. Commun Earth Environ 6, 998 (2025).
• Li, J. J., Jansen, J. D., & Carling, P. A. (2025). Palaeoseismicity recorded in soft-sediment deformation structures within a 166-m-long drill core from Diexi Palaeolake, eastern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Mountain Science, 22, 12.
• Audemard, F. A., Gómez, C. E. R., Vásquez, J. R. P., Philippon, M., Sánchez, G. Q., Clouard, V., Roger, J., … & Lebrun, J. F. (2025). Gran Roque Island partly submerged by a 2500-year-old tsunami, Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela Leeward Antilles Islands. Marine Geology, 107696.
• Castro-Perdomo, N., Jónsson, S., Klinger, Y., Masson, F., Becker, T. W., & Johnson, K. M. (2025). Strain Rates along the Alpine-Himalayan Belt from a Comprehensive GNSS Velocity Field. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.
• Chuang, R. Y., Lee, Z., Chiang, C. J., Lin, L. C. J., Chen, L., Jiang, Y. W., … & Wang, I. T. (2025). Surface Ruptures of the 2022 Guanshan–Chihshang Earthquake Sequence, Eastern Taiwan: Implications for Fault Behavior and Recurrence. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
• Korbar, T., Hasan, O., Brunović, D. et al. Direct evidence of active tectonics along the offshore sector of the Dinaric Fault System. Sci Rep (2025).
• Kirkpatrick, J. D., Savage, H. M., Regalla, C., Shreedharan, S., Ross, C., Okuda, H., … & Yoshimoto, T. (2025). Extreme plate boundary localization promotes shallow earthquake slip at the Japan Trench. Science, eady0234.
• Caputo, R., Peruzza, L., Seno, S., Tibaldi, A., & Falcucci, E. (2025). Fault segmentation and seismotectonics of active thrust systems: the Northern Apennines and Southern Alps laboratories for new Seismic Hazard Assessments in northern Italy (NASA4SHA).
• Cui, F., Yang, H., Chen, J., Yao, L., Liu, J., Qin, J., … & Li, S. H. (2025). Experimental study on the resetting of IRSL and IRPL signals induced by frictional heating in rocks at seismic slip velocities. Quaternary Geochronology, 101721.
• Wang, L., Ren, Z., He, Z., Ji, H., Liu, J., Guo, L., & Li, X. (2025). Strong earthquakes of the strike‐slip Nalati fault within the Tianshan Orogenic Belt. Tectonics, 44(12), e2025TC008960.
• Fan, J., Zhang, F., Jiang, H., Xu, H., Cai, M., Cui, K., … & Xiao, J. (2025). A 25,000-yr-long integrated large earthquake record of the Xiaojiang Fault zone, southeastern Tibetan Plateau: New paleoseismic evidence from Yangzong Lake. Science China Earth Sciences, 1-19.
• Xu, W., Bai, C., Huang, C., Bürgmann, R., Shan, B., Shan, X., … & Shi, F. (2025). Northward rupture and early afterslip of two graben-bounding normal faults during the 2025 Dingri earthquake of Tibet. Communications Earth & Environment.
• Woolery, E. W., Stephenson, W. J., Woller, K., Leeds, A., Lindberg, N., Odum, J. K., … & Counts, R. (2025). Neotectonic Origins for the Meadow Bank Scarp, Wabash Valley Seismic Zone, USA. The Seismic Record, 5(4), 352-362.

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