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Regular PATA Days, the Int’l INQUA workshop on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics and Archaeoseismology, take a break in those years in which INQUA holds its large congress. Instead, small summer schools are usually held: 2019 in Prague and 2023 in Palermo. In 2027, it will be a winter school coordinated with the INQUA congress in India:

The XXI INQUA Congress 2027 will take place in Lucknow, India, from 28 January to 3 February, 2027. A lot of paleoseismology and active tectonics will be present, mainly organized by INQUA’s TERPRO and CMP commissions.

Sessions:

• #30: Structural and Paleoseismological Perspectives in Seismic Hazard Characterization
• #38: Applied Quaternary Science: avoiding geohazards by understanding sequences
• #69: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Paleoseismology: From Onshore to Offshore Earthquake Records
• #85: Advances in Intracontinental Earthquake Geology: Insight into Seismic Potential Along the Himalayan Arc
• #95: Looking at Earthquakes like never before to build upon historical knowledge and modern technological interventions
• #124: Historical Earthquakes, Active Tectonics, and Paleoseismology – Multidisciplinary Perspective

Field trips:

• INPRE-01: Exploring Quaternary Geology of the Kachchh Basin, Western India: Insights into Past Climatic, Sea-Level, Tectonic Perturbations and its Significance into Geoarchaeology
• INPRE-10: Signatures of 2004 Sumatra-Andaman and past transoceanic tsunamis and mega-subduction Zone Earthquakes from Andaman Island
• INPOST-07: Quaternary Landscape Evolution, Active Tectonics and Drainage Reorganization at the Himalayan Mountain Front, NW Himalaya
• INPOST-08: Late Quaternary sedimentation pattern in the Alaknanda valley: climate-tectonic interaction
• INPOST-09: Paleo-earthquake Signatures – Active Fault Topography from NW Himalaya: A Field Excursion in the Mesoseismal Zone of 1905 Kangra earthquake – Mw7.8, NW Himalaya
• INPOST-12: Paleoseismic Investigation along the foothill zone of Assam Himalaya (Nameri Tiger Reserve), NE India
• INPOST-15: Late Quaternary Landscape Evolution in the Southern Ganga Plain at Kalpi and adjoining areas, Uttar Pradesh: Implications for Paleoclimate and Forebulge Tectonics

Workshop:

• Paleoseismology workshop 24-27 January, led by Tina Niemi and Shreya Arora to Ramnagar, India

Deadline for regular registration and field trip registration is 30 October. For the workshop, please get in touch with Tina (niemit@umkc.edu) or Shreya (sarora@bates.edu) directly.

This time we have two whole books in our list that will be surely of interest. One is about Himalayan Hazards, the other one is about the geomorphological impact of earthquakes. A rather large number of studies deals with faults, tsunamis, and earthquakes in Europe. Of course we also have plenty of papers covering other regions and methodological studies.
Enjoy reading!

Applications are invited for the IDASH Training Programme (Integration of Data and Approaches for Seismic Hazard Assessment in CEI Regions).

The programme offers a series of online lectures delivered by international experts, focusing on methods, data, and applications for seismic hazard assessment in the CEI (Central European Initiative) region and beyond.

Full information, lecture schedule, speakers, and the application form are available on the project website:

Project website: https://progetti.ingv.it/en/idash

Training Programme and Application Form:
https://progetti.ingv.it/en/idash/activities/training-program/idash-training-programme

Application deadline: 16 August 2026.

Applications are open to postgraduate, Master’s, and PhD students, early-career scientists, and senior experts from all CEI countries, both EU and non-EU members.

Priority for workshop participation and limited financial support or grants will be given to applicants from EU candidate countries within the CEI region, namely Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Ukraine.

Application for the online lectures (only) is open to anyone interested in attending the sessions, regardless of whether they are based in CEI member states or in countries outside the CEI region.

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!