New papers on paleoseismology, tsunami, and active tectonics (June 2018)

These are the latest papers on active tectonics, paleoseismology, and tsunami. Lots of new studies from New Zealand and Greece this time, plus an intense discussion on tsunami in the Mediterranean. Enjoy!

• Zhuang, J., Peng, J., Xu, C., Li, Z., Densmore, A., Milledge, D., … & Cui, Y. (2018). Distribution and characteristics of loess landslides triggered by the 1920 Haiyuan Earthquake, Northwest of China. Geomorphology.
• Ferrario, M. F., & Livio, F. (2018). Characterizing the Distributed Faulting During the 30 October 2016, Central Italy Earthquake: A Reference for Fault Displacement Hazard Assessment. Tectonics.
• Stirling, M. W., & Anderson, J. G. (2018). Magnitude as a Function of Rupture Length and Slip Rate for Recent Large New Zealand Earthquakes. BSSA.
• Nicol, A., Khajavi, N., Pettinga, J. R., Fenton, C., Stahl, T., Bannister, S., … & Ristau, J. (2018). Preliminary Geometry, Displacement, and Kinematics of Fault Ruptures in the Epicentral Region of the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikoura, New Zealand, EarthquakePreliminary Geometry, Displacement, and Kinematics of Fault Ruptures in the Epicentral Region. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
• Bastin, S. H., Ogden, M., Wotherspoon, L. M., van Ballegoo, S., Green, R. A. & Stringer, M. (2018). Geomorphological Influences on the Distribution of Liquefaction in the Wairau Plains, New Zealand, Following the 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake. BSSA.
• Khajavi, N., Nicol, A., Quigley, M. C., & Langridge, R. M. (2018). Temporal slip-rate stability and variations on the Hope Fault, New Zealand, during the Late Quaternary. Tectonophysics.
• Liao, Y.-W., Ma, K.-F., Hsieh, M.-C., Cheng, S.-N., Kuo‐Chen, H., & Chang, C.-P. (2018). Resolving the 1906 Mw 7.1 Meishan, Taiwan, Earthquake from Historical Seismic Records. SRL.
• Zhong, X., Escalona, A., Sverdrup, E., & Bukta, K. E. (2018). Impact of fault evolution in Gilbert-type fan deltas in the Evrostini area, south-central Gulf of Corinth, Greece. Marine and Petroleum Geology.
• Costa, C. H., Owen, L. A., Ricci, W. R., Johnson, W. J., & Halperin, A. D. (2018). Holocene activity and seismogenic capability of intraplate thrusts: Insights from the Pampean Ranges, Argentina. Tectonophysics.
• Zhang, T., Fang, X., Wang, Y., Song, C., Zhang, W., Yan, M., … & Zhang, D. (2018). Late Cenozoic tectonic activity of the Altyn Tagh range: Constraints from sedimentary records from the Western Qaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau. Tectonophysics.
• Gilligan, A., & Priestley, K. (2018). Lateral variations in the crustal structure of the Indo-Eurasian collision zone. Geophysical Journal International.
• Gunderson, K. L., Anastasio, D. J., Pazzaglia, F. J., & Kodama, K. P. (2018). Intrinsically variable blind thrust faulting. Tectonics.
• Howarth, J. D., Cochran, U. A., Langridge, R. M., Clark, K., Fitzsimons, S. J., Berryman, K., Villamor, P. & Strong, D. T. (2018). Past large earthquakes on the Alpine Fault: paleoseismological progress and future directions. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics.
• Shao, Y., Liu‐Zeng, J., Oskin, M. E., Elliott, A. J., Wang, P., Zhang, J., … & Li, Z. (2018). Paleoseismic investigation of the Aksay restraining double‐bend, Altyn Tagh fault, and its implication for barrier‐breaching ruptures. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.
• Pallikarakis, A., Triantaphyllou, M. V., Papanikolaou, I., Dimiza, M. D., Reicherter, K., & Migiros, G. (2018). Age Constraints and Paleoenvironmental Interpretation of a Borehole Sedimentary Sequence along the Eastern Part of the Corinth Isthmus, Greece. Journal of Coastal Research, 34(3), 602-617.
• Resor, P. G., Cooke, M. L., Marshall, S. T., & Madden, E. H.  (2018). Influence of Fault Geometry on the Spatial Distribution of Long‐Term Slip with Implications for Determining Representative Fault‐Slip Rates. BSSA.
• Teofilo, G., Antoncecchi, I., & Caputo, R. (2018). Neogene-Quaternary evolution of the offshore sector of the southern Apennines accretionary wedge, Gulf of Taranto, Italy. Tectonophysics.
• Li, Z., Zhang, P., Zheng, W., Jia, D., Hubbard, J., Almeida, R., … & Li, T. (2018). Oblique thrusting and strain partitioning in the Longmen Shan fold‐and‐thrust belt, eastern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.
• Dahm, T., Heimann, S., Funke, S., Wendt, S., Rappsilber, I., Bindi, D., … & Cotton, F. (2018). Seismicity in the block mountains between Halle and Leipzig, Central Germany: centroid moment tensors, ground motion simulation, and felt intensities of two M≈ 3 earthquakes in 2015 and 2017. Journal of Seismology, 1-19.
• Hintersberger, E., Decker, K., Lomax, J., & Lüthgens, C. (2018). Implications from palaeoseismological investigations at the Markgrafneusiedl Fault (Vienna Basin, Austria) for seismic hazard assessment. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 18(2), 531.
• Yang, H., Yang, X., Zhang, H., Huang, X., Huang, W., & Zhang, N. (2018). Active fold deformation and crustal shortening rates of the Qilian Shan Foreland Thrust Belt, NE Tibet, since the Late Pleistocene. Tectonophysics.
• Li, T., Chen, J., Thompson Jobe, J. A., Burbank, D. W., Cheng, X., Xu, J., … & Zhang, P. (2018). Active bending‐moment faulting: Geomorphic expressions, controlling conditions, and the role in accommodating folding deformation. Tectonics.
• Woith, H., Petersen, G. M., Hainzl S., & Dahm, T. (2018). Review: Can Animals Predict Earthquakes? BSSA.
• Hinzen, K.-G., Maran, J., Hinojosa‐Prieto, H., Damm‐Meinhardt, U., Reamer, S. K., Tzislakis, J., Kemna, K., Schweppe, G., Fleischer, C. & Demakopoulou, K. (2018). Reassessing the Mycenaean Earthquake Hypothesis: Results of the HERACLES Project from Tiryns and Midea, Greece. BSSA.
• Zielke, O. (2018). Earthquake Recurrence and the Resolution Potential of Tectono‐Geomorphic Records. BSSA.
• Chen, K., Feng, W., Liu, Z. & Song, Y. T. (2018). 2017 Mw 8.1 Tehuantepec Earthquake: Deep Slip and Rupture Directivity Enhance Ground Shaking but Weaken the Tsunami.  SRL.
• Ren, Y., Wang, H., Xu, P., Dhakal, Y. P., Wen, R., Ma, Q., & Jiang, P. (2018). Strong‐Motion Observations of the 2017 Ms 7.0 Jiuzhaigou Earthquake: Comparison with the 2013 Ms 7.0 Lushan Earthquake. SRL.
• Herak, M., Živčić, M., Sović, I., Cecić, I., Dasović, I., Stipčević, J., & Herak, D. (2018). Historical Seismicity of the Rijeka Region (Northwest External Dinarides, Croatia)—Part II: The Klana Earthquakes of 1870. SRL.
• Vött, A., Bruins, H.J., Gawehn, M., Goodman-Tchernov, B.N., De Martini, P.M., Kelletat, D., Mastronuzzi, G., Reicherter, K., Röbke, B.R., Scheffers, A., Willershäuser, T., Avramidis, P., Bellanova, P., Costa, P.J.M., Finkler, C., Hadler, H., Koster, B., Lario, J., Reinhardt, E., Mathes-Schmidt, M., Ntageretzis, K., Pantosti, D., Papanikolaou, I., Sansò, P., Scicchitano, G., Smedile, A., Szczuciński, W. (2018): Publicity waves based on manipulated geoscientific data suggesting climatic trigger for majority of tsunami findings in the Mediterranean – Response to ‘Tsunamis in the geological record: Making waves with a cautionary tale from the Mediterranean’ by Marriner et al. (2017). Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie N.F. Suppl. Issue.
• Styron, R. (2018). The impact of earthquake cycle variability on neotectonic and paleoseismic slip rate estimates. Solid Earth Discuss.

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