New papers on paleoseismology, tsunami, and active tectonics (Dec 2016)

A continuous flow of images from the New Zealand earthquake reaches the earthquake geology community, and we’re probably all amazed by the coseismic offsets and other earthquake effects. However, the flow of papers on paleoseismology, tsunami, and active tectonics also does not stop and here is my digest for December. Enjoy reading!

• Grützner, C., Carson, E., Walker, R. T., Rhodes, E. J., Mukambayev, A., Mackenzie, D., Elliott, J. R., Campbell, G. E. & Abdrakhmatov, K. (2016). Assessing the activity of faults in continental interiors: palaeoseismic insights from SE Kazakhstan. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.11.025.
• Middleton, T. A., Walker, R. T., Rood, D. H., Rhodes, E. J., Parsons, B., Lei, Q., … & Zhou, Y. The tectonics of the western Ordos Plateau, Ningxia, China: slip rates on the Luoshan and East Helanshan Faults. Tectonics.
• Boulton, S. J., & Whitworth, M. R. (2017). Block and boulder accumulations on the southern coast of Crete (Greece): evidence for the 365 CE tsunami in the Eastern Mediterranean. In Tsunamis: Geology, Hazards and Risks. The Geological Society.
• Pousse Beltran, L., Pathier, E., Jouanne, F., Vassallo, R., Reinoza, C., Audemard, F., … & Volat, M. (2016). Spatial and temporal variations in creep rate along the El Pilar fault at the Caribbean‐South American plate boundary (Venezuela), from InSAR. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.
• Hetényi, G., Roux‐Mallouf, L., Berthet, T., Cattin, R., Cauzzi, C., Phuntsho, K., & Grolimund, R. (2016). Joint approach combining damage and paleoseismology observations constrains the 1714 AD Bhutan earthquake at magnitude 8±0.5. Geophysical Research Letters.
• Roux‐Mallouf, L., Ferry, M., Ritz, J. F., Berthet, T., Cattin, R., & Drukpa, D. (2016). First paleoseismic evidence for great surface‐rupturing earthquakes in the Bhutan Himalayas. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 121(10), 7271-7283.
• Zheng, Y., Li, H., Sun, Z., Wang, H., Zhang, J., Li, C., & Cao, Y. (2016). New geochronology constraints on timing and depth of the ancient earthquakes along the Longmen Shan fault belt, eastern Tibet. Tectonics.
• Daout, S., Barbot, S., Peltzer, G., Doin, M. P., Liu, Z., & Jolivet, R. Constraining the Kinematics of Metropolitan Los Angeles Faults with a Slip‐Partitioning Model. Geophysical Research Letters.
• Marliyani, G. I., Arrowsmith, R. J., & Whipple, K. X. (2016). Characterization of slow slip rate faults in humid areas: Cimandiri Fault zone, Indonesia. JGR: Earth Surface.
• Rutter, H. K., Cox, S. C., Dudley Ward, N. F., & Weir, J. J. Aquifer permeability change caused by a near‐field earthquake, Canterbury, New Zealand. Water Resources Research.
• Dey, S., Thiede, R. C., Schildgen, T. F., Wittmann, H., Bookhagen, B., Scherler, D., & Strecker, M. R. (2016). Holocene internal shortening within the northwest Sub‐Himalaya: Out‐of‐sequence faulting of the Jwalamukhi Thrust, India. Tectonics.
• Walker, R. T., Telfer, M., Kahle, R. L., Dee, M. W., Kahle, B., Schwenninger, J. L., … & Watts, A. B. (2016). Rapid mantle-driven uplift along the Angolan margin in the late Quaternary. Nature Geoscience.
• Lay, V., Buske, S., Lukacs, A., Gorman, A.R., Bannister, S., & Schmitt, D. R. (2016). Advanced seismic imaging techniques characterize the Alpine Fault at Whataroa (New Zealand). JGR: Solid Earth.
• Bruhat, L., & Segall, P. (2016). Coupling on the northern Cascadia subduction zone from geodetic measurements and physics‐based models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.
• Ferrarini, F., Boncio, P., de Nardis, R., Pappone, G., Cesarano, M., Aucelli, P. P., & Lavecchia, G. (2016). Segmentation pattern and structural complexities in seismogenic extensional settings: The North Matese fault system (central Italy). Journal of Structural Geology.
• Lin, A., Sano, M., Wang, M., Yan, B., Bian, D., Fueta, R., & Hosoya, T. (2016). Paleoseismic study of the Kamishiro Fault on the northern segment of the Itoigawa–Shizuoka Tectonic Line, Japan. Journal of Seismology, 1-21.

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