New papers on Paleoseismology and Geoethics

Several new studies have been published recently on old earthquakes and their geological footprint – time to list them and to recommend reading. Additionally, today’s paper digest also lists several articles which are not about paleoseismology, but geoethics. These papers were published in a special volume of GSL. They cover subjects that many paleoseismologists will have dealt with in the past or are likely to deal with in the future  – seismic risk perception, science communication, public outreach, and communicating uncertainties. One paper is dedicated to the L’Aquila trial. I find it very telling that this issue is not open access. Obviously, strengthening “public trust in geosciences” has still a long way to go…

Here are the latest papers:

• Malik, J. N., Sahoo, S., Satuluri, S., & Okumura, K. (2015). Active Fault and Paleoseismic Studies in Kangra Valley: Evidence of Surface Rupture of a Great Himalayan 1905 Kangra Earthquake (Mw 7.8), Northwest Himalaya, India. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
• Finn, S. P., Liberty, L. M., Haeussler, P. J., & Pratt, T. L. (2015). Landslides and Megathrust Splay Faults Captured by the Late Holocene Sediment Record of Eastern Prince William Sound, Alaska. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
• Şen, A. T., Cesca, S., Lange, D., Dahm, T., Tilmann, F., & Heimann, S. (2015). Systematic Changes of Earthquake Rupture with Depth: A Case Study from the 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule, Chile, Earthquake Aftershock Sequence. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 105(5), 2468-2479.
• Saltogianni, V., & Stiros, S. (2015). A Two‐Fault Model of the 2003 Leucas (Aegean Arc) Earthquake Based on Topological Inversion of GPS Data. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 105(5), 2510-2520.
• Gouramanis, C., Switzer, A. D., Polivka, P. M., Bristow, C. S., Jankaew, K., Dat, P. T., … & Jol, H. M. (2015). Ground penetrating radar examination of thin tsunami beds–A case study from Phra Thong Island, Thailand. Sedimentary Geology.
• Bohle, M. (2015). Simple geoethics: an essay on daily Earth science. Geoethics: the Role and Responsibility of Geoscientists. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 419.
• Cocco, M., Cultrera, G., Amato, A., Braun, T., Cerase, A., Margheriti, L., … & Todesco, M. (2015). The L’Aquila trial. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 419, SP419-13.
• Crescimbene, M., La Longa, F., Camassi, R., & Pino, N. A. (2015). The seismic risk perception questionnaire. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 419, SP419-4.
• de Rubeis, V., Sbarra, P., Sebaste, B., & Tosi, P. (2015). Earthquake ethics through scientific knowledge, historical memory and societal awareness: the experience of direct Internet information. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 419, SP419-7.
• Albarello, D. (2015). Communicating uncertainty: managing the inherent probabilistic character of hazard estimates. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 419, SP419-9.
• Solarino, S. (2015). How to strengthen public trust in geosciences. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 419, SP419-14.
• Marone, E., Camargo, R., & Salcedo-Castro, J. (2015). Communicating natural hazards: marine extreme events and the importance of variability and forecast errors. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 419, SP419-17.

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