New papers on paleoseismology, active tectonics, and archaeoseismology (May 2024)

We have a long list of papers this month. Many paleoseismology studies including conceptual work, historical seismology, and interesting geomorphology and tsunami papers. Enjoy reading and let me know if I’ve missed something. 

• Crosetto, S., de Montserrat, A., & Oncken, O. (2024). Uplifted Pleistocene marine terraces at active margins: Modeling reveals the effects of sea reoccupation and coseismic uplift on uplift rate calculation. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25(4), e2023GC011036.
• Wei, X., Jiang, H., Shi, W., Fan, J., Xu, H., Hu, W., … & Wang, Y. (2024). Earthquake supercycles and fault interaction over the past 32 ka in the Lake Ebinur area, Xinjiang, China. Science of The Total Environment, 172052.
• Matrau, R., Klinger, Y., Thorðarson, T., Guðmundsdóttir, E. R., Avşar, U., Parisi, L., Fittipaldi, M., & Jónsson S. (2024). Evidence for Holocene Earthquakes along the Húsavík‐Flatey Fault in North Iceland: Implications for the Seismic Behavior of Oceanic Transform Faults. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
• Hough, S. E., & Bilham, R. (2024). The 1886 Charleston, South Carolina, Earthquake: Intensities and Ground Motions. BSSA.
• Deev, E. V., Panin, A. V., Solomina, O. N., Bricheva, S. S., Borodovskiy, A. P., Entin, A. L., & Kurbanov, R. N. (2024). Large paleoearthquakes and Holocene faulting in the Southeastern Gorny Altai: implications for ongoing crustal shortening in Central Asia. International Geology Review, 1-23.
• Serpetsidaki, A., & Ganas, A. (2024). The 2022–2023 seismic sequence onshore South Evia, central Greece: evidence for activation of a left-lateral strike-slip fault and regional triggering of seismicity. Journal of Seismology, 1-24.
• Han, L., Liu-Zeng, J., Yao, W., Wang, W., Shao, Y., Liu, X., … & Tu, H. (2024). Discontinuous Surface Ruptures and Slip Distributions in the Epicentral Region of the 2021 M w7. 4 Maduo Earthquake, China. Remote Sensing, 16(7), 1250.
• Liu, F., Pan, J., Li, H., Chevalier, M. L., Sun, Z., Liu, D., … & Mi, G. (2024). Tenfold lower late quaternary throw rates in central Tibet compared to southern Tibet reflect different extensional deformation mechanisms. Journal of Structural Geology, 105116.
• Tsakalos, E., Filippaki, E., Lin, A., Kazantzaki, M., Nishiwaki, T., & Bassiakos, Y. (2024). Absolute Dating of Fault-Gouge Material Using Isothermal Thermoluminescence: An Example from the Nojima Fault Zone, SW Japan. Geosciences, 14(4), 99.
• Szymanski, E. D., Hetland, E. A., & Figueiredo, P. M. (2024). Imaging Left‐Lateral and Reverse Near‐Surface Slip of the 2020  5.1 Sparta, North Carolina, Earthquake. BSSA.
• Scolaro, S., Batlló, J., Orecchio, B., Presti, D., Stich, D., & Totaro, C. (2024). Modern Approaches for Historical Seismograms: Moment Tensor Inversion of the 1947 Squillace Basin, South Italy, Earthquake. SSA.
• Mitchell, S., Roberts, G. P., Walker, J. P. F., Iezzi, F., Sgambato, C., Robertson, J., … & Rugen, E. J. (2024). The relationship between kinematics and fault geometry for surface coseismic ruptures on across-strike faults: New observations of slip vectors and displacements along the Pisia and Skinos faults from the 1981 Eastern Gulf of Corinth, Greece earthquakes. Journal of Structural Geology, 105117.
• Ramírez-Herrera, M.T., Corona, N., Černý, J., Gaidzik, K., Sugawara, D., Forman, S. L., Machain-Castillo, M. L., & Gogichaishvili A. (2024). Tsunami deposits highlight high-magnitude earthquake potential in the Guerrero seismic gap Mexico. Commun Earth Environ 5, 198.
• Xu, W., Wang, J., & Yin, J. (2024). Late Quaternary faulted landforms and recent activity of the eastern segment of the Nanbei River–Boli Fault. Journal of Structural Geology, 105128.
• Wei, Y., ten Brink, U. S., & Atwater, B. F. (2024). Modeled Flooding by Tsunamis and a Storm Versus Observed Extent of Coral Erratics on Anegada, British Virgin Islands—Further Evidence for a Great Caribbean Earthquake Six Centuries Ago. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129(3), e2023JB028387.
• Pérez-López, R., Moragas-Segura, N., Elez, J., Silva, P. G., Giner-Robles, J. L., Rodríguez-Pascua, M. A., … & Garduño-Monroy, V. H. (2024). Teotihuacan ancient culture affected by megathrust earthquakes during the early Epiclassic Period (Mexico). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 55, 104528.
• Rizza, M., Rixhon, G., Valla, P. G., Gairoard, S., Delanghe, D., Fleury, J., … & Groleau, S. (2024). Revisiting a proof of concept in quartz-OSL bleaching processes using sands from a modern-day river (the Séveraisse, French Alps). Quaternary Geochronology.
• Vassallo, R., Martinod, J., Roy, S., Sue, C., & Astrade, L. (2024). Along‐strike variation of fault slip rate of a transform plate boundary in Tierra del Fuego (South Patagonia). Terra Nova.
• Forlin P, Reicherter K, Gerrard CM, Bailiff I, García Porras A (2024). Recovering a lost seismic disaster. The destruction of El Castillejo and the discovery of the earliest historic earthquake affecting the Granada region (Spain). PLoS ONE 19(4): e0300549.
• Jamšek Rupnik, P., Atanackov, J., Horn, B., Mušič, B., Zajc, M., Grützner, C., Ustaszewski, K., Tsukamoto, S., Novak, M., Milanič, B., Markelj, A., Ivančič, K., Novak, A., Jež, J., Žebre, M., Bavec, M., & Vrabec, M. (2024). Revealing Subtle Active Tectonic Deformation: Integrating Lidar, Photogrammetry, Field Mapping and Geophysical Surveys to Assess the Late Quaternary Activity of the Sava Fault (Southern Alps, Slovenia). Remote Sensing.
• Albertengo, M., del Papa, C., & Lapiana, A. (2024). Conductos de arena (sand pipes) como potenciales indicadores de sismicidad en la Formación Casa Grande, Noroeste Argentino. Latin American Journal of Sedimentology and Basin Analysis, 31.
• Zhong, N., Bai, Y., Xu, H., Shi, W., Fan, J., Wei, X., … & Jiang, H. (2024). A continuous 18.6–10 ka record of seismic events revealed by Xinmocun lacustrine sediments at Diexi, eastern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 106152.
• Kundu, B., Zwaan, F., & Senapati, B. (2024). Unfolding rotational tectonics and topographic evolution from localized verses diffuse plate boundary counterparts. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 8199.
• Chousianitis, K., Sboras, S., Mouslopoulou, V., Chouliaras, G., & Hristopulos, D. T. (2024). The upper crustal deformation field of Greece inferred from GPS data and its correlation with earthquake occurrence. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129, e2023JB028004
• Van Balen, R. T., Lapperre, R. E., Woolderink, H. A. G., Wallinga, J., & Kasse, C. (2024). Magnitudes and surface rupture lengths of paleo-earthquakes at the NW-part of the Peel Boundary fault zone, Roer Valley Rift System. Tectonophysics, 230322.
• Huang, J.-Y., Abrahamson, N. A., Sung, C.-H., & Chao, S.-H. (2024). New Empirical Source‐Scaling Laws for Crustal Earthquakes Incorporating Fault Dip and Seismogenic‐Thickness Effects. Seismological Research Letters.
• Dawood, R., Matmon, A., Benedetti, L., ASTER Team, & Siman‐Tov, S. (2024). Multi‐segment earthquake clustering as inferred from 36Cl exposure dating, the Bet Kerem fault system, northern Israel. Tectonics, 43(5), e2023TC007953.
• Merschat, A. J., Carter, M. W., Lynn, A., Stewart, K. G., Figueiredo, P. M., Odom, W. E., … & Holm-Denoma, C. S. (2024). Mesoproterozoic to Paleozoic tectonics, Pleistocene landforms, and Holocene seismicity in the Blue Ridge: Results from integrated studies of the 9 August 2020, Mw 5.1 earthquake area near Sparta, North Carolina, USA. GSA Field Guide.
• Wu, C., Huang, K., Yin, A., Zhang, J., Zuza, A. V., Haproff, P. J., & Ding, L. (2024). Tectonic geomorphology and Quaternary slip history of the Fuyun fault, southwestern Altai Mountains, central Asia. Geosphere.
• Nixon, C. W., McNeill, L. C., Gawthorpe, R. L., Shillington, D. J., Michas, G., Bell, R. E., … & de Gelder, G. (2024). Increasing fault slip rates within the Corinth Rift, Greece: A rapidly localising active rift fault network. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 636, 118716.
• Caracciolo, C. H. (2024). Macroseismic data in Italy. Early questionnaires and postcards: a brief history and commentary (19th and 20th centuries). Bulletin of Geophysics and Oceanography.
• Hill, E.M., McCaughey, J.W., Switzer, A.D. et al. (2024). Human amplification of secondary earthquake hazards through environmental modifications. Nat Rev Earth Environ.
• Zhang, Y., Wimpenny, S., Dal Zilio, L., & Shan, X. (2024). Strain partitioning and fault kinematics in the Northern Qilian Shan (NE Tibet) determined from Bayesian inference of geodetic data. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(9), e2023GL107324.

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