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

Today’s list is again very long. It contains a lot of really cool stuff from Central Europe and the Alps, and many interesting studies from China and Central Asia. Connoisseurs of American tectonics will also be happy I promise. Plus, quite a number of papers on methods and earthquake/fault physics in general. Enjoy reading!

• Camelbeeck, T., Knuts, E., Alexandre, P., Lecocq, T., & Van Noten, K. (2021). The 23 February 1828 Belgian earthquake: a destructive moderate event typical of the seismic activity in Western Europe. Journal of Seismology, 1-23.
• Varga, P., Győri, E., & Timár, G. (2021). The Most Devastating Earthquake in the Pannonian Basin: 28 June 1763 Komárom. Seismological Research Letters.
• Yang, H., Quigley, M., & King, T. (2021). Surface slip distributions and geometric complexity of intraplate reverse-faulting earthquakes. GSA Bulletin.
• Jackson, J., McKenzie, D., & Priestley, K. (2021). Relations between earthquake distributions, geological history, tectonics and rheology on the continents. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 379(2193), 20190412.
• Oswald, P., Strasser, M., Hammerl, C. & Moernaut, J. (2021). Seismic control of large prehistoric rockslides in the Eastern Alps. Nature Communications 12, 1059.
• Nigg, V., Wohlwend, S., Hilbe, M., Bellwald, B., Fabbri, S. C., de Souza, G. F., … & Anselmetti, F. S. (2021). A tsunamigenic delta collapse and its associated tsunami deposits in and around Lake Sils, Switzerland. Natural Hazards, 1-35.
• King, T. R., Quigley, M., Clark, D., Zondervan, A., May, J. H., & Alimanovic, A. (2021). Paleoseismology of the 2016 MW 6.1 Petermann earthquake source: implications for intraplate earthquake behaviour and the geomorphic longevity of bedrock fault scarps in a low strain‐rate cratonic region. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
• Penney, C., & Copley, A. (2020). Lateral variations in lower crustal strength control the temporal evolution of mountain ranges: examples from south‐east Tibet. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, e2020GC009092.
• Zheng, Y., & Guo, R. (2021). Earthquake potential of the seismic gap between the Wenchuan and Lushan earthquakes: Current status, thoughts, and challenges. Science China Earth Sciences, 1-4.
• Cheng, F., Zuza, A. V., Haproff, P. J., Wu, C., Neudorf, C., Chang, H., … & Li, B. (2021). Accommodation of India-Asia convergence via strike-slip faulting and block rotation in the Qilian Shan fold-thrust belt, northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of the Geological Society.
• Zhang, Y., Xu, Y., Du, P., Li, W., Chen, L., & Tian, Q. (2020). The Volume Calculation Method of Rock Collapses and Loess Landslides Triggered by the 1556 AD Huaxian M8.5 Earthquake in Shaanxi Province, China. Earthquake Research in China.
• Strelnikov, A. A., & Korzhenkov, A. M. (2021). Destruction of Medieval Archaeological Monuments by Strong Earthquakes in the Southwestern Issyk-Kul Basin, Tien Shan. Seismic Instruments, 57(1), 55-74.
• Sadeghi, Z., Wright, T. J., Hooper, A. J., Jordan, C., Novellino, A., Bateson, L., & Biggs, J. (2021). Benchmarking and Inter-Comparison of Sentinel-1 InSAR velocities and time series. Remote Sensing of Environment, 256, 112306.
• Jannat, M. R. A. (2021). Tsunami modeling in the Chabahar Bay-Iran from worst-case Makran seismic scenarios: new insights into spectral characterization, separation of the continental shelf, and topography effects. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 14(3), 1-21.
• Yang, H., Cunningham, D., & Yang, X. (2021). Quaternary crustal reactivation of the southwestern Beishan, NW China: The Liuyuan sinistral transpressional duplex. Tectonophysics, 228758.
• Ferranti, L., Burrato, P., Sechi, D., Andreucci, S., Pepe, F., & Pascucci, V. (2021). Late Quaternary coastal uplift of southwestern Sicily, central Mediterranean sea. Quaternary Science Reviews, 255, 106812.
• Dielforder, A., & Hampel, A. (2021). Force‐Balance Analysis of Stress Changes during the Subduction‐Collision Transition and Implications for the Rise of Mountain Belts. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2020JB020914.
• Kelly, S., & Beaumont, C. (2021). Balanced Cross‐sections and Numerical Modelling of the Lithospheric‐scale Evolution of the Hindu Kush and Pamir. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2020JB020678..
• Elliott, A., Elliott, J., Hollingsworth, J., Kulikova, G., Parsons, B., & Walker, R. (2020). Satellite imaging of the 2015 M 7.2 earthquake in the Central Pamir, Tajikistan, elucidates a sequence of shallow strike-slip ruptures of the Sarez-Karakul fault. Geophysical Journal International, 221(3), 1696-1718.
• Valagussa, A., Frattini, P., Valbuzzi, E., & Crosta, G. B. (2021). Role of landslides on the volume balance of the Nepal 2015 earthquake sequence. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-12.
• Wen, Y., Xiao, Z., He, P., Zang, J., Liu, Y., & Xu, C. (2021). Source Characteristics of the 2020 Mw 7.4 Oaxaca, Mexico, Earthquake Estimated from GPS, InSAR, and Teleseismic Waveforms. Seismological Research Letters.
• Sulli, A., Morticelli, M. G., Agate, M., & Zizzo, E. (2021). Active north-vergent thrusting in the northern Sicily continental margin in the frame of the Quaternary evolution of the Sicilian collisional system. Tectonophysics, 228717.
• Reitman, N. G., & Molnar, P. (2021). Strain and velocity across the Great Basin derived from 15‐ka fault slip rates: Implications for continuous deformation and seismic hazard in the Walker Lane, California‐Nevada, USA. Tectonics, e2020TC006389.
• Drooff, C., & Freymueller, J. T. (2021). New Constraints on Slip Deficit on the Aleutian Megathrust and Inflation at Mt. Veniaminof, Alaska from Repeat GPS Measurements. Geophysical Research Letters, e2020GL091787.
• Kázmér, M. (2021). Repeated historical earthquakes in Sousse, Monastir and El-Jem (Tunisia) – an archaeoseismological study. Arabian Journal of Geosciences 14:214.
• Ren, G., Li, C., Wu, C., Zhang, H., Wang, S., Ren, Z., Lei, Q., & Li, X. (2021). Late Quaternary Slip Rate and Kinematics of the Baoertu Fault, Constrained by 10Be Exposure Ages of Displaced Surfaces within Eastern Tian Shan. Lithosphere 2021 (1).
• Tortorici, G., Pavano, F., Romagnoli, G., & Catalano, S. (2021). The effect of recent resurfacing in volcanic areas on the distribution of co-seismic ground deformation due to strike-slip earthquakes: new insights from the 12/26/2018 seismic event at Mt. Etna. Journal of Structural Geology, 104308.
• Mousavi, Z., Fattahi, M., Khatib, M., Talebian, M., Pathier, E., Walpersdorf, A., … & Walker, R. (2021). Constant slip-rate on the Doruneh strike-slip fault, Iran, averaged over Late Pleistocene, Holocene, and decadal timescales. Tectonics.
• Sosa-Ramírez, R. L., Paz-Martínez, E. G., & Montalvo-Arrieta, J. C. (2021). The MW 6.2 Punta Santa Elena (Coahuila-Zacatecas) earthquake of 28 April 1841, the largest documented pre-instrumental event and its implications on seismic hazard in Northeastern Mexico. Journal of Seismology, 1-9.
• Anderson, J. G., Cotton, F., & Bindi, D. (2021). A ground motion based procedure to identify the earthquakes that are the most relevant for probabilistic seismic hazard analysis. Earthquake Spectra, 8755293020981987.
• Szczygieł, J., Sobczyk, A., Hercman, H., Mendecki, M. J., & Gąsiorowski, M. (2021). Damaged Speleothems and Collapsed Karst Chambers Indicate Paleoseismicity of the NE Bohemian Massif (Niedźwiedzia Cave, Poland). Tectonics, e2020TC006459.
• Sobczyk, A., & Szczygieł, J. (2021). Paleostress reconstruction of faults recorded in the Niedźwiedzia Cave (Sudetes): insights into Alpine intraplate tectonic of NE Bohemian Massif. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 1-15.
• McKay, L., Lunn, R. J., Shipton, Z. K., Pytharouli, S., & Roberts, J. J. (2021). Do intraplate and plate boundary fault systems evolve in a similar way with repeated slip events?. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 559, 116757.
• Vannoli, P., Martinelli, G., & Valensise, G. (2021). The Seismotectonic Significance of Geofluids in Italy. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9.
• Counts, R. C., Van Arsdale, R., Woolery, E., Murari, ;. K., Owen, L. A., Beck, E. G., Mahan, S., & Durbin, J. (2021). Late Holocene Deformation near the Southern Limits of the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone of Kentucky and Indiana, Central United States, with Seismic Implications. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
• Heit, B., Cristiano, L., Haberland, C., Tilmann, F., Pesaresi, D., Jia, Y., Hausmann, H., Hemmleb, S., Haxter, M., Zieke, T., Jaeckl, K.-H., Schloemer, A., & Weber, M. (2021). The SWATH‐D Seismological Network in the Eastern Alps. Seismological Research Letters.
• Lease, R. O., Haeussler, P. J., Witter, R. C., Stockli, D. F., Bender, A. M., Kelsey, H. M., & O’Sullivan, P. B. (2021). Extreme Quaternary plate boundary exhumation and strike slip localized along the southern Fairweather fault, Alaska, USA. Geology.
• Bello, S., Scott, C.P., Ferrarini, F. et al. (2021). High-resolution surface faulting from the 1983 Idaho Lost River Fault M_w 6.9 earthquake and previous events. Sci Data 8, 68.
• Zhang, L., Yang, X., Huang, W., Yang, H., & Li, S. (2021). Fold segment linkage and lateral propagation along the Qiulitage anticline, South Tianshan, NW China. Geomorphology, 107662.
• Kaub, C., Geoffroy, L., Bollinger, L., Perrot, J., Le Roy, P., & Authemayou, C. (2021). Is the machecoul fault the source of the∼ M6 1799 Vendée earthquake (France)?. Geophysical Journal International.
• Tavani, S., Granado, P., Corradetti, A., Camanni, G., Vignaroli, G., Manatschal, G., … & Parente, M. (2021). Rift inheritance controls the switch from thin-to thick-skinned thrusting and basal décollement re-localization at the subduction-to-collision transition. GSA Bulletin.
• Pajang, S., Cubas, N., Letouzey, J., Le Pourhiet, L., Seyedali, S., Fournier, M., … & Mokhtari, M. (2021). Seismic hazard of the western Makran subduction zone: Insight from mechanical modelling and inferred frictional properties. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 562, 116789.
• Olivotos, S., Niedermann, S., Flügel, T., Mouslopoulou, V., Merchel, S., Cotterill, F., … & Seiler, M. (2021). Quaternary landscape evolution in a tectonically active rift basin (paleo-lake Mweru, south-central Africa). Geomorphology, 107669.
• Barchi, M. R., Carboni, F., Michele, M., Ercoli, M., Giorgetti, C., Porreca, M., … & Chiaraluce, L. (2021). The influence of subsurface geology on the distribution of earthquakes during the 2016–2017 Central Italy seismic sequence. Tectonophysics, 228797.
• Minchev, A., Korzhenkov, A. M., Ovsyuchenko, A. N., Dimitrov, O. V., Larkov, A. S., Ranguelov, B. K., … & Andreeva, N. V. (2020). Deformations in the Episcopal Basilica in Varna: Evidences of Strong Historical Earthquakes in Northwestern Bulgaria. Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, 56(10), 1202-1217.
• Dal Zilio, L., Hetényi, G., Hubbard, J. et al. (2021). Building the Himalaya from tectonic to earthquake scales. Nat Rev Earth Environ (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-021-00143-1
• Lu, Y., Moernaut, J., Bookman, R., Waldmann, N.D., Wetzler, N., Agnon, A., Marco, S., Alsop, I., Strasser, M., and Hubert-Ferrari, A. (2021). A new approach to constrain the seismic origin for prehistoric turbidites as applied to the Dead Sea Basin. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL090947.

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