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This time we have studies from all over the world, among them a surprisingly large number of papers on historical data. Enjoy reading and let us know in case we’ve missed something.

This month we have a nice variety of topics and methods, including interesting tsunami studies and lake paleoseismology. Enjoy reading!

What a long list we have today! Perhaps a bit more seismic hazard-focussed than usual, but there’s even a study on active faulting and seismic hazard on the moon. Apart from that there are many papers on Asia this time. Enjoy reading and please let us know about your new research for next month’s list.

The registration for the next PATA Days is now open! PATA Days are the main activity of TERPRO’s project CHAMP. The 2026 international workshop on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics, and Archeoseismology will be held in Guatemala to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1976 Guatemala M7.5 Earthquake.
Limited INQUA funding is available to support the participation of ECRs and DCRs (application deadline 15 September).
Find all information on program, deadlines, costs and much more at the conference website: https://www.pata2026.org/
More background on the PATA Days workshop series as well as download links for all previous abstract volumes and field guides can be found at http://pata-days.org/.

All eyes are on the horrible consequences of the Myanmar Earthquake right now. Let’s hope that on the long term, this event helps us to be better prepared for large earthquakes elsewhere. Meanwhile, lots of interesting papers have been published, among them many that deal with seismic hazard and cascading effects and actually also one on Myanmar (Sethanant et al., 2025). Let us know in the comments of there’s something missing. 

This week’s list of papers has some interesting work on soft-sediment deformation and quite a number of studies from the Mediterranean region. But you’ll also find something interesting if you’re more into earthquakes in the Americas, South Korea and Central and Eastern Asia. Enjoy reading!

Dear Colleagues,

We are aiming to organize a special issue titled: Intraplate Tectonics: Earthquakes, active tectonics, and seismic hazard in regions of slow lithospheric deformation.  This special issue will complement a number of recent conference sessions on Intraplate Tectonics and Seismicity that have been held at EGU, IGC, INQUA and other societies over the past number of years.  The solicitation for contributions to the special issue is below.  If you or your colleagues are interested in submitting an article to the special issue, please let us know a tentative title and your list of authors with affiliations by the end of April; send it directly to k.reicherter@nug.rwth-aachen.de. Anticipated deadline for submission of manuscripts 31.12.2025.

Sincerely,

The special issue guest editors: Klaus Reicherter, Beau Whitney, Tamarah King, Sambit Naik

This is a guest post by Szymon Świątek

Can we “read” earthquake history by analyzing microscopic quartz grains? New research suggests we can! Scientists from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the University of Potsdam have introduced an innovative method for studying seismic liquefaction. Their findings, published in the Journal of Structural Geology, reveal that quartz microstructures can help identify past earthquakes.

The 2025 Hokudan meeting on active faulting was held online this year from 23-25 January. It was organised by our friend Koji Okumura. The abstract volume is now available for download here: https://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/kojiok/hokudan2025.html. Check it out, there’s some truly cool stuff, for example a trench with a 1700 year-old human skull in it…

This is a guest post by Erin McEwan.

River systems are shaped by both gradual and sudden geological processes, and the influence of active tectonics on river behaviour is a fundamental concept in tectonic and fluvial geomorphology. Despite this, much is still unknown about how earthquake surface deformation can alter flood hazard. This is concerning as human populations are increasingly expanding onto floodplains in seismically active regions. A recent review by McEwan et al (2025) in Earth-Science Reviews addresses this knowledge gap by analysing data from 52 sites where fault deformation is known to have induced an immediate change in river behavior; otherwise referred to as a Coseismic River Response (CRR).