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For many geologists the field season is up ahead or has already started, but perhaps you will find some time to read through the latest literature? Or you can use the winter season in the southern hemisphere to enjoy a good read? It would be a pity to miss some of these really interesting studies. Enjoy!

INQUA TERPRO’s project TPPT had decided to not organise PATA Days in the years with an INQUA congress, but instead to run a much smaller summer school for ECRs and DCRs. The summer school on Active Faults and Volcano-Tectonics will be held from 25-28 September in Naples (Italy). The event will be hosted by DiSTAR (Department of Earth Sciences, Enviroment and Resources , University of Naples «Federico II»).

The first two days will include lectures by researchers who will present state of the art studies on active faults. The second part includes two field trips in areas crucial for understanding active faults and the interplay between tectonics and volcanic activity. Download the circular (PDF) here.

This month’s list of papers includes the first few studies on the devastating earthquakes in Türkiye in February, 2023. Apart from that, we also have important work in archaeoseismology and great studies from New Zealand, an interesting shallow earthquake in the Tarim Basin, updates on surface displacement hazard and strain rate estimations, and papers on the Med and East Africa. Enjoy reading!

The first papers related to the 6 Feb, 2023, Türkiye Earthquakes are already published, but this month’s list has also interesting studies on Asian tectonics, the Med, and the Americas. Enjoy reading!

A new special issue has been published in Quaternary International. Earthquake Geology and Seismic Hazards: From Earthquake Mapping of Historical and Prehistoric Earthquakes to Paleoseismology contains contributions from the PATA Days in Greece, 2018, and the INQUA Congress in Dublin in 2019. The SI collects an editorial and six research papers:

• Grützner, C., Baize, S., & Papanikolaou, I. (2023): Earthquake Geology and Seismic Hazards: From Earthquake Mapping of Historical and Prehistoric Earthquakes to Paleoseismology. Quat. Int. 651, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2023.02.011.
• Silva, P.G., Elez, J., Pérez-López, R., Giner-Robles, J.L., Gómez-Diego, P.V., Roquero, E., Rodríguez-Pascua, M. A., & Bardají, T. (2023). The AD 1755 Lisbon Earthquake-Tsunami: seismic source modelling from the analysis of ESI-07 environmental data. Quat. Int. 651, 6–24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.11.006.
• Tringali, G., Bella, D., Livio, F., Ferrario, M.F., Groppelli, G., Blumetti, A.M., Di Manna, P., Vittori, E., Guerrieri, L., Porfido, S., Boso, D., Pettinato, R., Paradiso, G., & Michetti, A. M. (2023). Fault rupture and aseismic creep accompanying the December 26, 2018, Mw 4.9 Fleri earthquake (Mt. Etna, Italy): factors affecting the surface faulting in a volcano-tectonic environment. Quat. Int. 651, 25–41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.12.019.
• Abbas, W., Zhang, J., Tsukamoto, S., Ali, S., Frechen, M., & Reicherter, K. (2023). Pleistocene-Holocene deformation and seismic history of the Kalabagh Fault in Pakistan using OSL and post-IR IRSL dating. Quat. Int. 651, 42–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.01.007.
• Velazquez-Bucio, M.M., Ferrario, M.F., Muccignato, E., Porfido, S., Sridharan, A., Chunga, K., Livio, F., Gopalan, S., & Michetti, A. M. (2023). Environmental effects caused by the Mw 8.2, September 8, 2017, and Mw 7.4, June 23, 2020, Chiapas-Oaxaca (Mexico) subduction events: comparison of large intraslab and interface earthquakes. Quat. Int. 651, 62–76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.11.028.
• Mechernich, S., Reicherter, K., Deligiannakis, G., & Papanikolaou, I. (2023). Tectonic geomorphology
  of active faults in Eastern Crete (Greece) with slip rates and earthquake history from cosmogenic 36Cl dating of the Lastros and Orno faults. Quat. Int. 651, 77–91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.04.007.
• Papanikolaou, I., Dafnis, P., Deligiannakis, G., Hengesh, J., & Panagopoulos, A. (2023). Active faults, Paleoseismological trenching and seismic hazard assessment in the Northern Mygdonia Basin, Northern Greece: the Assiros-Krithia fault and the Drimos fault zone. Quat. Int. 651, 92–107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.02.001.

This is the longest list of papers we had since ages. We start with a brand new review article on recent developments in onshore paleoseismology by Jim McCalpin et al. Also in the list are plenty of papers on  classical paleoseismology and earthquake geology, a few cool tsunami studies, some fault physics, SHA, and new methods. Enjoy reading!

The 2022 PATA Days were held in Provence, France, from 25 – 30 September. Traditionally, we publish 4-page extended abstracts. The full volume containing 58 contributions is now available for download here: https://zenodo.org/record/7736477.
You can cite it as:
Baize, S., & Rizza, M. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International INQUA Workshop on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics and Archaeoseismology (“PATA Days”) 25 – 30 September 2022, Aix-En-Provence, FRANCE. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7736477

Make sure to also check out all the volumes & field trip guides from previous meetings at https://www.earthquakegeology.com.

Main topics are: Historical Earthquakes, Palaeoseismology, Archaeoseismology,
Macroseismology, Seismotectonics. A special session will be dedicated to the recent catastrophic
earthquakes in SE Turkey and Northern Syria. On the third day a field trip will be organized that
will include visits to the ruins of the 1953 earthquakes, damages that occurred due to the 2014
earthquakes, expression of active tectonics and an overall experience of the morphology/landscape
of the island, as a result of intense seismotectonic activity.

Besides the classical paleoseismology studies in today’s list, we have some papers that deal with secondary and cascading effects of earthquakes, such as landslides and diseases, and interesting new findings on short term and long-term tectonic geomorphology. Enjoy reading!

This months edition of the paper list surely has something interesting for everybody – a wide variety of papers both geographically and thematically. There are classical paleoseismology studies, submarine and tsunami stuff, archaeoseismology, fault physics, and much more from all around the globe. Enjoy reading and let me know if I have missed something.