New papers on paleoseismology, earthquakes, and active tectonics (Dec. 2021)

It’s already December and 2021 is finally coming to an end – although it felt like two years. Anyway, here’s the last list of papers for this year. It includes a great review article on paleoseismology and a new IAEA tecdoc for surface displacement hazard. Plus, lots of cool other studies. Enjoy reading!

• Kondo, H., Owens, L. A., & Figueiredo, P. M. (2021). Paleoseismological Studies. Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences.
• Xiong, W., Yu, P., Chen, W., Liu, G., Zhao, B., Nie, Z., & Qiao, X. (2021). The 2020 Mw 6.4 Petrinja earthquake: A dextral event with large coseismic slip highlights a complex fault system in northwestern Croatia. Geophysical Journal International.
• Brough, T., Nicol, A., Stahl, T., Pettinga, J. R., Van Dissen, R., Clark, D., Khajavi, N., Pedley, K., Langridge, R., & Wang, N. (2021). Paleoseismicity of the western Humps fault on the Emu Plain, North Canterbury, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics.
• Waldhauser, F., & Schaff, D. A (2021). Comprehensive Search for Repeating Earthquakes in Northern California: Implications for Fault Creep, Slip Rates, Slip Partitioning, and Transient Stress. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2021JB022495.
• Duran, İ., Sözbilir, H., Eski, S., Softa, M., Uytun, H., Yüksel, M., & Topaksu, M. (2021). Paleoseismic history of the Manisa fault zone, Western Anatolia. Turkish Journal Of Earth Sciences, 30(SI-1), 806-832.
• Kleber, E. J., DeVecchio, D. E., Arrowsmith, J. R., & Rittenour, T. M. (2021). Spatiotemporal Rates of Tectonic Deformation and Landscape Evolution above a Laterally Propagating Thrust Fault: Wheeler Ridge Anticline, California, USA. Lithosphere, 2021(Special 2), 3395719.
• Yang, Y. H., Tsai, M. C., Hu, J. C., Chen, Q., Aurelio, M., Xu, Q., … & Li, L. (2021). Assessment of the Seismic Hazards of the Marikina Valley Fault from 2019 Mw 6.1 Castillejos Earthquake and Historical Events. Seismological Research Letters.
• Williams, R. T. (2021). Poisson Behavior Leads to Bias When Testing for Periodicity in the Paleoseismic Record of Large Earthquakes. SRL.
• Brune, R., Anderson, J. G., & Brune, J. N. (2021). Unexpected Directionality of Failures in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake near Point Reyes Station. SRL.
• Hough, S. E., & Martin, S. S. (2021). Which Earthquake Accounts Matter? SRL, 92(2A), 1069-1084.
• Wald, D. J. (2021). Comment on “Which Earthquake Accounts Matter?” by Susan E. Hough and Stacey S. Martin. SRL.
• Hough, S. E., & Martin, S. S. (2021). Reply to “Comment on ‘Which Earthquake Accounts Matter?’ by Susan E. Hough and Stacey S. Martin” by David J. Wald. SRL.
• Riesner, M., Bollinger, L., Hubbard, J., Guérin, C., Lefèvre, M., Vallage, A., … & Sapkota, S. N. (2021). Localized extension in megathrust hanging wall following great earthquakes in western Nepal. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-18.
• Lozos, J. C. (2021). The effect of along-strike variation in dip on rupture propagation on strike-slip faults. Geosphere.
• Luo, Q., Li, C., Li, X., Ren, G., & Dong, J. (2021). Slip distribution and footwall topography of the Yanggao‐Tianzhen Fault (northern Shanxi Graben): implications for the along‐strike variations in fault activity and regional deformation. Tectonics, e2020TC006593.
• Felix, R. P., Hubbard, J. A., Moore, J. D. P., & Switzer, A. D. (2021). The Role of Frontal Thrusts in Tsunami Earthquake Generation. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
• Wronna, M., Baptista, M. A., & Miranda, J. M. (2021). Reevaluation of the 11 November 1858 Earthquake and Tsunami in Setúbal: A Contribution to the Seismic and Tsunami Hazard Assessment in Southwest Iberia. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 1-26.
• Luetzenburg, G., Kroon, A. & Bjørk, A.A. (2021). Evaluation of the Apple iPhone 12 Pro LiDAR for an Application in Geosciences. Sci Rep 11, 22221.
• Rouet-Leduc, B., Jolivet, R., Dalaison, M., Johnson, P. & Hulbert, C. (2021). Autonomous extraction of millimeter-scale deformation in InSAR time series using deep learning. Nat Commun 12, 6480.
• Thompson Jobe, J. A., & Chupik, C. (2021). Low‐rate faulting on the margin of the Colorado Plateau and Rio Grande Rift in north‐central New Mexico. Tectonics, e2021TC006860.
• Acuña, F., Montalva, G. A., Melnick, D. (2021). How Good is a Paleoseismic Record of Megathrust Earthquakes for Probabilistic Forecasting?. Seismological Research Letters.
• Felix, R. P., Hubbard, J. A., Moore, J. D., & Switzer, A. D. (2021). The Role of Frontal Thrusts in Tsunami Earthquake Generation. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
• Prada, M., Galvez, P., Ampuero, J.-P., Sallarès, V., Sánchez-Linares, C., Macías, J., & Peter, D. (2021). The influence of depth-varying elastic properties of the upper plate on megathrust earthquake rupture dynamics and tsunamigenesis. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.
• Silva, P. G., Elez, J., Pérez-López, R., Giner-Robles, J. L., Gómez-Diego, P. V., Roquero, E., Rodríguez-Pascua, M. Á., & Bardají, T. (2021). The AD 1755 Lisbon Earthquake-Tsunami: Seismic source modelling from the analysis of ESI-07 environmental data. Quaternary International.
• Steffen, R., & Steffen, H. (2021). Reactivation of non‐optimally orientated faults due to glacially induced stresses. Tectonics, e2021TC006853.
• Hergarten, S. (2021). The influence of sediment transport on stationary and mobile knickpoints in river profiles. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, e2021JF006218.
• Alfonsi, L. L., & Cinti, F. R. (2021). Earthquake effects and insights on fault activity at the Beatrice Cenci cave (Abruzzo, Central Apennines). Ann. Geophys. 64(4):SE435.
• Li, Z., Xu, X., Tapponnier, P., Chen, G., Li, K., Luo, J., … & Kang, W. (2021). Post‐20 ka earthquake scarps along NE‐Tibet’s Qilian Shan Frontal thrust: Multi‐millennial return, ∼Characteristic co‐seismic slip, and geological rupture control. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2021JB021889.
• Aksoy, M. E., Meghraoui, M., Polonia, A., Çağatay, M. N., Yavuzoğlu, A. Z., Önder, Ş., … & Gasperini, L. (2021). Subaqueous fault scarps of the North Anatolian Fault in the Gulf of Saros (NE Aegean); where is the western limit of the 1912 Mürefte-Şarköy earthquake rupture?. Geophysical Journal International.
• Wang, M., Wang, F., Jiang, X., Tian, J., Li, Y., Sun, J., & Shen, Z. K. (2021). GPS determined coseismic slip of the 2021 Mw7.4 Maduo, China, earthquake and its tectonic implication. Geophysical Journal International.
• Ferrarini, F., Arrowsmith, J. R., Brozzetti, F., de Nardis, R., Cirillo, D., Whipple, K. X., & Lavecchia, G. (2021). Late Quaternary Tectonics along the Peri-Adriatic Sector of the Apenninic Chain (Central-Southern Italy): Inspecting Active Shortening through Topographic Relief and Fluvial Network Analyses. Lithosphere, 2021(1), 7866617.
• Barreca, G., Gross, F., Scarfì, L., Aloisi, M., Monaco, C., & Krastel, S. (2021). The Strait of Messina: Seismotectonics and the source of the 1908 earthquake. Earth-Science Reviews, 103685.
• Pino, N. A., Palano, M., & Ventura, G. (2021). Comment on the paper by Barreca et al.: “The Strait of Messina: Seismotectonics and the source of the 1908 earthquake” (Earth-Science Reviews 218, 2021, 103685). Earth-Science Reviews, 103865.
• Barreca, G., Gross, F., Scarfì, L., Aloisi, M., Monaco, C. & Krastel, S. (2021). Reply to: Comment on the paper by Barreca et al.: “The Strait of Messina: Seismotectonics and the source of the 1908 earthquake” by G. Barreca, F. Gross, L. Scarfì, C. Monaco, S. Krastel (Earth-Science Reviews 218, 2021, 103685), Earth-Science Reviews, 103866.
• Plattner, C., Parizzi, A., Carena, S., Rieger, S. M., Friedrich, A. M., Abolghasem, A. M., & DeZan, F. (2021). Long-lived afterslip of the 2013 Mw 6.1 Minab earthquake detected by Persistent Scatterer Interferometry along the Irer fault (western Makran-Zagros transition zone, Iran). Geophysical Journal International.
• Lang, J., Baker, J., Williams, P., Rowland, J., Clark, K., Howarth, J., … & Goded, T. (2021). Macro-characterisation of cave damage for palaeoseismological investigations in regions of low strain: A case study from central–western North Island (Waitomo caves), New Zealand. Quaternary Science Reviews, 272, 107202.
• D’Amico, M., Castelli, V., & Maugeri, M. (2021). Rethinking the seismic history of the Gulf of Patti (NE Sicily, Italy): new insights from the local historical archives. Seismological Research Letters.
• Ercoli, M., Cirillo, D., Pauselli, C., Jol, H. M., & Brozzetti, F. (2021). Ground-penetrating radar signature of Quaternary faulting: a study from the Mt. Pollino region, southern Apennines, Italy. Solid Earth, 12(11), 2573-2596.
• Dalaison, M., Jolivet, R., van Rijsingen, E. M., & Michel, S. (2021). The interplay between seismic and aseismic slip along the Chaman fault illuminated by InSAR. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2021JB021935.
• Griffin, J. D., Stirling, M. W., Barrell, D. J. A., van den Berg, E. J., Todd, E. K., Nicolls, R., & Wang, N. (2021). Paleoseismology of the Hyde Fault, Otago, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics.
• IAEA (2021). An Introduction to Probabilistic Fault Displacement Hazard Analysis in Site Evaluation for Existing Nuclear Installations. IAEA-TECDOC-1987, 144 p. 978-92-0-138321-1
• Subedi, S., & Hetényi, G. (2021). Precise Locating of the Great 1897 Shillong Plateau Earthquake Using Teleseismic and Regional Seismic Phase Data. The Seismic Record, 1(3), 135-144.
• Schlupp, A., Sira, C., Maufroy, E., Provost, L., Dretzen, R., Bertrand, E., Beck, E. & Schaming, M. (2021). EMS98 intensities distribution of the “Le Teil” earthquake, France, 11 November 2019 (Mw 4.9) based on macroseismic surveys and field investigations. Comptes Rendus. Géoscience, 1-28.
• Irmak, T. S., Toker, M., Yavuz, E., Şentürk, E., & Güvenaltın, M. A. (2021). New insight into the 24 January 2020, Mw 6.8 Elazığ earthquake (Turkey): An evidence for rupture-parallel pull-apart basin activation along the East Anatolian Fault Zone constrained by Geodetic and Seismological data. Annals of Geophysics, 64(4), SE439-SE439.
• Faivre, S., Bakran-Petricioli, T., Herak, M., Barešić, J., & Borković, D. (2021). Late Holocene interplay between coseismic uplift events and interseismic subsidence at Koločep island and Grebeni islets in the Dubrovnik archipelago (southern Adriatic, Croatia). Quaternary Science Reviews, 274, 107284.
• Rashidi, A., Dutykh, D., Keshavarz, N., & Audin, L. (2021). Regional tsunami hazard from splay faults in the Gulf of Oman. Ocean Engineering, 110169.
• Liang, Z., Wei, Z., Sun, W., & Zhuang, Q. (2021). Surface Slip Distribution and Earthquake Rupture Model of the Fuyun Fault, China, Based on High-Resolution Topographic Data. Lithosphere, 2021(Special 2), 7913554.
• Bloom, C. K., Howell, A., Stahl, T., Massey, C., & Singeisen, C. (2021). The influence of off-fault deformation zones on the near-fault distribution of coseismic landslides. Geology.
• Salomon, G. W., New, T., Muir, R. A., Whitehead, B., Scheiber-Enslin, S., Smit, J., … & Sloan, R. A. (2021). Geomorphological and geophysical analyses of the Hebron fault, SW Namibia: Implications for stable continental region seismic hazard. Geophysical Journal International.
• Maselli, V., Micallef, A., Normandeau, A., Oppo, D., Iacopini, D., Green, A., & Ge, Z. (2021). Active faulting controls bedform development on a deep-water fan. Geology, 49(12), 1495-1500.
• Lü, L., Li, T., Chen, Z., Chen, J., Jobe, J. T., & Fang, L. (2021). Active structural geometries and their correlation with moderate (M 5.5‐7.0) earthquakes in the Jiashi‐Keping region, Tian Shan southwestern front. Tectonics, e2021TC006760.
• Patyniak, M., Landgraf, A., Dzhumabaeva, A., Baikulov, S., Williams, A. M., Weiss, J. R., … & Strecker, M. R. (2021). The Pamir Frontal Thrust fault: Holocene full‐segment ruptures and implications for complex segment interactions in a continental collision zone. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2021JB022405.
• Gorbatov, E. S., Kolesnikov, S. F., Korzhenkov, A. M., & Vardanyan, H. A. (2021). Structural and Lithological Comparison of Convolutions in Lacustrine Complexes (Q3-4) of the Baltic Shield, Northern Yakutia, Tien Shan. Seismic Instruments, 57(6), 714-729.
• Korzhenkov, A. M., Mordvintseva, V. I., Ovsyuchenko, A. N., Strelnikov, A. A., & Larkov, A. S. (2021). Seismic Deformations at Archaeological Sites, in Sediments, and the Relief of Mt. Opuk, Crimea. Seismic Instruments, 57(6), 637-672.
• Baker, J., Bradley, B., & Stafford, P. (2021). Seismic hazard and risk analysis. Cambridge University Press.
• Pandey, A. K., & Kumar, D. (2021). CSIR-NGRI’s Quest for Understanding Earth Surface Processes and Liquefaction Based Paleoseismology in the Himalaya and Adjoining Region. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 97(10), 1152-1156.

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