New papers on paleoseismology, tsunami, and active tectonics (Mar 2017)

It is time for the monthly list of papers that could be interesting for the earthquake geology community. Lots of new papers this time, and too many different topics to list them in detail. Enjoy reading!

• Middleton, T. A., Elliott, J. R., Rhodes, E. J., Sherlock, S., Walker, R. T., Wang, W., … & Zhou, Y. (2017). Extension rates across the northern Shanxi Grabens, China, from Quaternary geology, seismicity and geodesy. Geophysical Journal International.
• Novikova, T., Mouzakiotis, E., & Karastathis, V. K. (2017). Magnitude Assessment for the Historical Earthquake Based on Strong‐Motion Simulation and Liquefaction Analysis: Case of the 1894 Atalanti Earthquake, Greece. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
• Saltogianni, V., Taymaz, T., Yolsal‐Çevikbilen, S., Eken, T., Moschas, F., & Stiros, S. (2016). Fault Model for the 2015 Leucas (Aegean Arc) Earthquake: Analysis Based on Seismological and Geodetic Observations. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
• Veeraraghavan, S., Hudnut, K. W., & Krishnan, S. (2016). Toppling Analysis of the Echo Cliffs Precariously Balanced Rock. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
• Perez, J.S., & Tsutsumi, H. (2017). Tectonic geomorphology and paleoseismology of the Surigao segment of the Philippine fault in northeastern Mindanao Island, Philippines. Tectonophysics.
• Wang, D., Yin, G.-M., Wang, X.-L., Liu, C.-R., Han, F., & Du, J.-H. (2016). OSL dating of the Late Quaternary slip rate on the Gyaring Co Fault in Central Tibet. Geochronometria, 43, 162–173, doi:10.1515/geochr-2015-0040.
• Sun, H., He, H., Wei, Z., Shi, F., & Gao, W. (2017). Late Quaternary paleoearthquakes along the northern segment of the Nantinghe fault on the southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences.
• Owczarek, P., Opała-Owczarek, M., Rahmonov, O., & Mendecki, M. (2017). 100 years of earthquakes in the Pamir region as recorded in juniper wood: a case study of Tajikistan. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences.
• Sangha, S., Peltzer, G., Zhang, A., Meng, L., Liang, C., Lundgren, P., & Fielding, E. (2017). Fault geometry of 2015, Mw7. 2 Murghab, Tajikistan earthquake controls rupture propagation: Insights from InSAR and seismological data. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 462, 132-141.
• Nigam, R., Dubey, R., saraswat, R., Sundaresh, Gaur, A. S., & Loveson, V. J. (2016). Ancient Indians (Harappan settlement) were aware of tsunami/storm protection measures: a new interpretation of thick walls at Dholavira, Gujarat, India. Current Science 111, 12.
• Morell, K. D., Regalla, C., Leonard, L. J., Amos, C., & Levson, V. (2017). Quaternary Rupture of a Crustal Fault beneath Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. GSA Today 27, 3.
  
• Perez, J. S., & Tsutsumi, H. (2017). Tectonic geomorphology and paleoseismology of the Surigao segment of the Philippine fault in northeastern Mindanao Island, Philippines. Tectonophysics, 699, 244-257.
• He, P., Hetland, E. A., Wang, Q., Ding, K., Wen, Y., & Zou, R. (2017). Coseismic Slip in the 2016 Mw 7.8 Ecuador Earthquake Imaged from Sentinel‐1A Radar Interferometry. Seismological Research Letters.
• Downes, G., Barberopoulou, A., Cochran, U., Clark, K., & Scheele, F. (2017). The New Zealand Tsunami Database: Historical and Modern Records. Seismological Research Letters.
• Ward, A., Counts, R., Van Arsdale, R., Larsen, D., & Mahan, S. (2017). Quaternary Displacement Rates on the Meeman‐Shelby Fault and Joiner Ridge Horst, Eastern Arkansas: Results from Coring Mississippi River Alluvium. Seismological Research Letters.
• Cochran, U. A., Clark, K. J., Howarth, J. D., Biasi, G. P., Langridge, R. M., Villamor, P., Berryman, K. R., & Vandergoes, M. J. (2017). A plate boundary earthquake record from a wetland adjacent to the Alpine fault in New Zealand refines hazard estimates. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 464, 175–188.
• Nicol, A., Seebeck, H. & Wallace, L. (2016). Quaternary Tectonics of New Zealand. In: Landscape and Quaternary Environmental Change in New Zealand, Volume 3 of the series Atlantis Advances in Quaternary Science, 1-34.
• Langridge, R. M., Ries, W. F., Dolan, J. F., Schermer, E. R., & Siddoway, C. (2017). Slip rate estimates and slip gradient for the Alpine Fault at Calf Paddock, Maruia River, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 1-16.
• Ferrater, M., Ortuño, Masana, E., Martínez-Díaz, J. J., Pallàs, R., Perea, H., Baize, S., García-Meléndez, E., Echeverria, A., Rockwell, T., Sharp, W. D., & Arrowsmith, R. (2017). Lateral slip rate of Alhama de Murcia fault (SE Iberian Peninsula) based on a morphotectonic analysis: Comparison with paleoseismological data. Quaternary International.
• Gori, S., Falcucci, E., Galadini, F., Moro, M., Saroli, M., & Ceccaroni, E. (2016). Geoarchaeology and paleoseismology blends to define the Fucino active normal fault slip history, central Italy. Quaternary International. 
• Reyes, O., Méndez, C., San Román, M., & Francois, J. P. (2016). Earthquakes and coastal archaeology: Assessing shoreline shifts on the southernmost Pacific coast (Chonos Archipelago 43 50′–46 50′ S, Chile, South America). Quaternary International.
• Weissl, M., Hintersberger, E., Lomax, J., Lüthgens, C., & Decker, K. (2017). Active tectonics and geomorphology of the Gaenserndorf Terrace in the Central Vienna Basin (Austria). Quaternary International.
• Bilham, R., Mencin, D., Bendick, R., & Bürgmann, R. (2017). Implications for elastic energy storage in the Himalaya from the Gorkha 2015 earthquake and other incomplete ruptures of the Main Himalayan Thrust. Quaternary International.
• Evelpidou, N., Karkani, A., Kampolis, I., & Pirazzoli. P. (2017). Late Holocene shorelines in east Attica (Greece). Quaternary International.
  
• Silva, P.G., Elez, J., Giner-Robles, J. L., Rodríguez-Pascua, M. A., Pérez-López, R., Roquero, E., Bardají, T., & Martínez-Graña, A. (2017). ESI-07 ShakeMaps for instrumental and historical events in the Betic Cordillera (SE Spain): An approach based on geological data and applied to seismic hazard. Quaternary International.
• Pérez-López, R., Martín-Velázquez, S., Sánchez-Moral, S., Patyniak, M., López-Gutiérrez, J., Cuezva, S., Lario, J., Silva, P. G., Rodríguez-Pascua, M. A., & Giner-Robles, J. L. (2017). New insights on speleoseismology: The geothermal gradient and heat flow values in caves for the study of active faults. Quaternary International.
• Scharer, K., Weldon, R., Biasi, G., Streig, A. & Fumal, T. (2017). Ground-rupturing earthquakes on the northern Big Bend of the San Andreas Fault, California, 800 A.D. to present. JGR-Solid Earth.
• Philibosian, B., Sieh, K., Avouac, J. P., Natawidjaja, D. H., Chiang, H. W., Wu, C. C., … & Lu, Y. (2016). Earthquake Supercycles on the Mentawai Segment of the Sunda Megathrust in the 17th Century and Earlier. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.
• Huang, M. H., Fielding, E. J., Liang, C., Milillo, P., Bekaert, D., Dreger, D., & Salzer, J. (2017). Coseismic deformation and triggered landslides of the 2016 Mw 6.2 Amatrice earthquake in Italy. Geophysical Research Letters.

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