A course on Paleoseismology and Archeoseismology will be held at the Annual Meeting of the Union Geofisica Mexicana on 2 and 3 November 2013. The course will be coordinated by Víctor Hugo Garduño. Also, we would like to advertise three special sessions on paleoseismology, faults, and active tectonics at the same meeting:
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Paleoseismology course at the Annual Meeting of the Union Geofisica Mexicana on 2 and 3 November
2013-07-25 | in Meeting -
Accretionary Wedge #58: Signs! (This sign is a sign, isn’t it?)
2013-07-23 | in paleoseismicity.orgFollowing Evelyn’s call for geological/geographical/funny signs in the field, I post some nice ones that I came across during the last years. Check out the Accretionary Wedge #58 for more signs! more
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Job opportunity in tectonics – Postdoctoral fellow at Bergen University, Norway
2013-07-22 | in JobsBergen University currently advertises a post-doc position in tectonics and surface processes, mainly involving modelling surface processes along active faults. It is a joint project with Patience Cowie, Rob Gawthorpe and Ritske Huismans. The deadline is 5th August. Find more information on Jobbnorge.no. more
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Field work image of the day: Broken stalagmites indicating earthquake activity
2013-07-18 | in EarthquakeTodays field work image is again by Elisa Kagan and shows a damaged stalagmite in the Soreq Cave near Jerusalem. Damaged stalagmites were used to reconstruct earthquake recurrence intervals. more
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Field work image of the day: A mass-movement core from the Dead Sea
2013-07-16 | in CenterfaultElisa Kagan sent me this nice field photo of the day – a drill core containing mass-movement evidence from the Dead Sea:
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Field work image of the day: Four on the fault
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New papers on earthquakes, paleoseismology and a “lost fault”
2013-07-09 | in Earthquake, PaperThe latest issue of the Seismological Research Letters (SRL) does not only have a very stylish cover, but also includes some papers that will be of interest for the fans of old earthquakes and environmental earthquake effects (EEEs). In the Historical Seismologist section, Bilham et al describe the hunt for a lost fault – that is, one that was described by Oldham in the 19th Century, but never really located and almost forgotten. Nice! more
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Spanish kids learn about archaeoseismology in Baelo Claudia
2013-07-02 | in TeachingThis is a nice and short video performed by 9-10 year old kids and conducted by two teachers of the School “Escuelas Francesas” located at Sevilla (Spain), and in collaboration with our Spanish colleagues Miguel, Jorge and Pablo. The kids read about our work on earthquake effects on archaeological sites and they have reproduced in a easy way the main EAEs in the Roman buildings of Baelo Claudia: the aqueduct, the drop of the key stone in arches and oriented fallen columns. (EAE: Earthquake Archaeological Effect; see Rodríguez-Pacua et al., 2011). more
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4th PATA days Aachen 2013 – Deadline for registration approaching
2013-06-26 | in Aachen 2013, Events, Meeting, PATA daysDear colleagues,
the 4th International INQUA meeting on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics and Archeoseismology (PATA days) will take place from 9 – 15 October, 2013 in Aachen, Germany. Deadline for registration and abstract submission is (4 pages extended abstracts) 15 July 2013.
We invite you to register and submit extended abstracts to the following sessions: more
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An open access, collaborative initiative to compile info on active faults in Himalaya, Andes
2013-06-19 | in Centerfault, Teaching, Where on Google Earth?I came across this great initiative after Richard Styron sent the announcement via the Geotectonics mailing list. He’s currently maintaining these projects. The idea is to compile all available data on active structures in the Himalaya using the GitHub infrastructure (basically a collaborative platform for programming) . Everyone can join and help compiling active faults in this region. The data is then available to everyone for free in different data formats. The same thing is currently happening for the Andes region, too! more