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The 13th International INQUA Meeting on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics and Archaeoseismology (PATA Days) was held from 2-5 February, 2026, in Antigua Guatemala. We commemorated the catastrophic M7.5 earthquake of 4 February, 1976. A pre-meeting field trip from 30 Jan – 1 Feb took the participants to several paleoseismological and archaeoseismological sites along the Motagua Fault, the plate boundary between the North American and Caribbean Plates. After the meeting, another field trip focussed on the neotectonics of the triple junction west of Guatemala City. 16 ECRs and DCRs were supported with INQUA travel grants organized by TERPRO’s project CHAMP. Here’s a short summary about the field trips and the meeting. 

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/.

The 2024 PATA Days took place from 6-11 October in Los Andes, Chile. This was the 11th meeting on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics, and Archaeoseismology. The conference proceedings with all the 4-page abstracts in now available online and for download at https://libros.uchile.cl/1446.

Many thanks to the organisers for a successful conference and for the unforgettable field trips!
PATA Days are usually organised in the framework of INQUA’s TERPRO Commission.
To learn more about the past and the future of PATA Days, and to download all past abstract volumes and field trip guides, see http://pata-days.org/.

The 2025 Hokudan International Symposium on Active Faulting will be held online from 23-25 January, 2025. Abstracts are due December 25th, deadline for registration is January 15th. Please visit the meeting website for the circular and further information: https://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/kojiok/hokudan2025.html. The main theme will be “Active fault research for better preparedness for earthquakes”. Another session will commemorate the eminent researchers who contributed a lot for the past Hokudan meetings and who passed away since the 2020 meeting.

Tejpal Singh and his colleagues are organizing a workshop on Observing Ground Deformation From Space And In The Field. It will take place from 16-19 December, 2024, in Chandigarh at the foot of the Himalayas. Here’s the details:

These are the latest papers that I came across last month. This time we have a number of studies on strong historical earthquakes and their geological (and archaeological) record, classical paleoseismology that sometimes worked, sometimes not, tectonic landscapes, and much more. Enjoy reading!

The first Environmental Hazards in Asia Conference will take place in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, from 12-15 August with a field trip from 16-20 August. This conference aims to bring together practitioners of both with a focus on the hazards across Asia. The workshop will be structured to allow exploration of the underlying physical mechanics of hazards, explore the impacts of historical events across the continent and focus on the possible approaches to minimizing future impacts. The aim is to facilitate new ideas and proposals. Funds to support travel and subsistence to up to 20 participants from across Asia are available.

May 15th – Abstract submission deadline
June 1st – Fieldtrip registration deadline
July 12th – Online registration deadline

Meeting website: https://environmentalhazardsasia.wordpress.com/

The PATA Days are the meeting on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics, and Archaeoseismology, organised within the framework of INQUA‘s TERPRO commission. The official website has been launched, containing all infos on the programme, field trips, grant applications, the venue, the abstract template, and the deadlines. Check it out: https://www.patadayschile.cl.

Abstract submission will open 4 March and the deadline for the 4-page abstracts is 29 March. No short abstracts this time.

See you all in Chile in October!

Dear Colleagues,

We are aiming to organize a special issue titled: Earthquakes and active tectonics in regions of slow lithospheric deformation: towards a re-evaluation of Stable Continental Regions (SCRs). This special issue will complement a session on Intraplate Tectonics and Seismicity at the 37^th International Geological Congress to be held in Busan, Korea in September 2024.  The abstract for the IGC session is below, followed by our solicitation for contributions to the special issue.  If you are interested in submitting an article to the special issue, please let us know a tentative title your list of authors by the 15^th of December 2023.

We hope that you will join us in Busan and consider submitting your intraplate research to our special issue.

Sincerely,

The editors: Klaus Reicherter, Beau Whitney, Sambit Naik, Pierre Arroucau, Christoph Grützner, Stéphane Baize, Jim McCalpin

The 12th international PATA Days will be held in Los Andes, Chile, 6-11 October, 2024. PATA stands for Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics, Archaeoseismology and it is the main activity of the paleoseismology community within INQUA’s TERPRO commission.