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

These are the latest papers on paleoseismology, tsunami, and active tectonics. Lots of stuff on the Mediterranean, but we have studies from all over the world. Enjoy reading!

• • Copley, A. (2017). The strength of earthquake-generating faults. Journal of the Geological Society, jgs2017-037.

  • Stewart, I., and Piccardi, L. (2017). Seismic faults and sacred sanctuaries in Aegean antiquity. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association.

  • Allen, M. B., Walters, R. J., Song, S., Saville, C., De Paola, N., Ford, J., … & Sun, W. (2017). Partitioning of oblique convergence coupled to the fault locking behavior of fold‐and‐thrust belts: evidence from the Qilian Shan, northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Tectonics.
  • Szeliga, W. & Bilham, R. (2017). New Constraints on the Mechanism and Rupture Area for the 1905 Mw 7.8 Kangra Earthquake, Northwest Himalaya. BSSA
  • Pettenati, F., Sirovich, L. & Bjerrum, L. W. (2017). Fault Sources and Kinematics of the 1897 Mw 8.1 Assam and the 1934 Ms 8.2 Nepal Earthquakes Retrieved by KF‐NGA Inversion and Their Seismotectonic Implications.  BSSA
  • Nelson, A. R., Personius, S. F., & Wells, R. E., Schermer, E. R., Bradley, L.-A., Buck, J. & Reitman, N. (2017). Holocene Earthquakes of Magnitude 7 During Westward Escape of the Olympic Mountains, Washington. BSSA.
  • Li, Z., Liu-Zeng, J., Almeida, R., Hubbard, J., Sun, C., & Yi, G. (2017). Re-evaluating seismic hazard along the southern Longmen Shan, China: Insights from the 1970 Dayi and 2013 Lushan earthquakes. Tectonophysics.
  • Kolawole F., E. A. Atekwana, S. Malloy, D. S. Stamps, R. Grandin, M. G. Abdelsalam, K. Leseane, and E. M. Shemang (2017). Aeromagnetic, gravity, and Differential Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (DInSAR) analyses reveal the causative fault of the April 3, 2017 Mw 6.5 Moiyabana, Botswana Earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, doi:10.1002/2017GL074620.
• Fitzsimmons, K. E., Iovita, R., Sprafke, T., Glantz, M., Talamo, S., Horton, K., … & Deom, J. M. (2017). A chronological framework connecting the early Upper Palaeolithic across the Central Asian piedmont. Journal of Human Evolution, 113, 107-126.
• Vanneste, K., Camelbeeck, T., Verbeeck, K., & Demoulin, A. (2018). Morphotectonics and Past Large Earthquakes in Eastern Belgium. In Landscapes and Landforms of Belgium and Luxembourg (pp. 215-236). Springer, Cham.
• Champenois, J., Baize, S., Vallée, M., Jomard, H., Alvarado, A., Espin, P., Ekstrom, G. and Audin, L. (2017). Evidences of surface rupture associated with a low magnitude (Mw5.0) shallow earthquake in the Ecuadorian Andes. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth. doi:10.1002/2017JB013928
• Mohadjer, S., Ehlers, T. A., Bendick, R., & Mutz, S. G. (2017). Review of GPS and Quaternary fault slip rates in the Himalaya-Tibet orogen. Earth-Science Reviews.
• Yıldırım, C., & Tüysüz, O. (2017). Estimation of the long-term slip, surface uplift and block rotation along the northern strand of the North Anatolian Fault Zone: Inferences from geomorphology of the Almacık Block. Geomorphology.
• Personius, S. F., Crone, A. J., Burns, P. A., & Reitman, N. G. (2017). Recurrent Holocene Movement on the Susitna Glacier Thrust Fault: The Structure that Initiated the Mw 7.9 Denali Fault Earthquake, Central Alaska. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
• Warrell, K. F., Cox, R. T., Hatcher, R. D., Vaughn, J. D., & Counts, R. (2017). Paleoseismic Evidence for Multiple Mw≥ 6 Earthquakes in the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone during the Late Quaternary. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
• Nippress, S. E., Heyburn, R., & Walters, R. J. (2017). The 2008 and 2012 Moosiyan Earthquake Sequences: Rare Insights into the Role of Strike Slip and Thrust Faulting within the Simply Folded Belt (Iran). Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
• Albini, P., Rovida, A., Scotti, O., & Lyon‐Caen, H. (2017). Large Eighteenth–Nineteenth Century Earthquakes in Western Gulf of Corinth with Reappraised Size and Location. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
• Kästle, E. D., Weber, M., & Krüger, F. (2017). Complex Deep Structure of the African Low‐Velocity Zone. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
• Sternai, P., Caricchi, L., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Jolivet, L., Sheldrake, T.E. & Castelltort, S. (2017). Magmatic pulse driven by sea-level changes associated with the Messinian salinity crisis. NatureGeoscience
• Simón, J. L., Arlegui, L. E., Ezquerro, L., Lafuente, P., Liesa, C. L., & Luzón, A. (2017). Assessing interaction of active extensional faults from structural and paleoseismological analysis: The Teruel and Concud faults (eastern Spain). Journal of Structural Geology.
• Jing-xing, Y., Wen-jun, Z., Pei-zhen, Z., Qi-yun, L., Xu-long, W., Wei-tao, W., … & Ning, Z. (2017). Late Quaternary strike-slip along the Taohuala Shan-Ayouqi fault zone and its tectonic implications in the Hexi Corridor and the southern Gobi Alashan, China. Tectonophysics.

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