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paleoseismicity.org @paleoseismicity.bsky.social · Aug 7
PATA Days 2026 in Guatemala – Registration open! www.pata2026.org

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.
PATA 2026
PATA 2026 Antigua Guatemala
www.pata2026.org
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Kamil Ustaszewski @wukaimi.bsky.social · 1d
The Faculty of Chemistry and #EarthSciences @uni-jena.de currently has two #geojob openings for #professorships: (1) General #Geophysics and (2) Geographical #RemoteSensing / #Earth #Observation. www.nature.com/naturecareer... @dgg-news.bsky.social @dvgeo.bsky.social @dggv-1848.bsky.social
photographic view featuring the tower of the building of the Institute of Geosciences in Jena towards west. The institute is located on a Pleistocene strath terrace of the Saale river, c. 50 m above the city centre (feturing some skyscrapers in the middle of the photo). The forested plateau in the background of the photo is formed by mesas exposing Middle Triassic strata ('Muschelkalk'). Jena is a thriving university town offering very high living standards and a cool place to be ;-)
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paleoseismicity.org @paleoseismicity.bsky.social · 1d
These are the latest papers on paleoseismology, active tectonics, and archaeoseismology (Nov 2025)
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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 3d
Noto Earthquake and submarine landscape. After a loooong time looking for reviewers, we received good critical comments which led to notable revisions. Now back in review at GRL hoping that the 2nd round will be shorter than the 6 months of the first: doi.org/10.31223/X53...
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Kamil Ustaszewski @wukaimi.bsky.social · 16d
@sumikotsuka.bsky.social and I are looking for a postdoc (2 yrs) to work w/ us at @uni-jena.de and LIAG Hannover on constraining exhumation rates in #Albania using calcite/dolomite thermoluminescence thermochronology. www.structures.uni-jena.de/en/1012/open.... @paleoseismicity.bsky.social @dfg.de
Open Postdoc position
two-years full-time postdoc position open in our team, starting 1 January, 2026.
www.structures.uni-jena.de
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paleoseismicity.org @paleoseismicity.bsky.social · Aug 7
PATA Days 2026 in Guatemala – Registration open! www.pata2026.org

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.
PATA 2026
PATA 2026 Antigua Guatemala
www.pata2026.org
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paleoseismicity.org @paleoseismicity.bsky.social · 19d
Will include field work in Albania and lab work in Hanover with @sumikotsuka.bsky.social. Part of Priority Programme “Plate Deformation and Geohazards: The Eastern Margin of the Adriatic Plate (DEFORM)". Closing date: 2 November 2025 via online form jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/4...
Postdoctoral Researcher
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paleoseismicity.org @paleoseismicity.bsky.social · 19d
2 yrs Postdoc at StructGeol of Uni Jena w/ (@wukaimi.bsky.social). "Constraining exhumation rates in contractional vs. extensional segments of the Dinarides-Hellenides transition w/ calcite/dolomite thermoluminescence thermochronology"
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Open Postdoc position
2 yrs postdoc position open
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paleoseismicity.org @paleoseismicity.bsky.social · 29d
These are the latest papers on paleoseismology, active tectonics, and archaeoseismology (Oct 2025)
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» New papers on paleoseismology, active tectonics, and archaeoseismology (Oct 2025)
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cosmos4u.bsky.social @cosmos4u.bsky.social · Aug 2
Paleoseismic activity in the moon’s Taurus-Littrow valley inferred from boulder falls and landslides: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... -> University of Maryland Geophysicist Helps Identify Moonquake Dangers that Could Threaten Future Missions: cmns.umd.edu/news-events/...
Paleoseismic activity in the moon’s Taurus-Littrow valley inferred from boulder falls and landslides
The lunar landscape has been changed by strong seismic shaking from moonquakes potentially hazardous to long-term infrastructure.
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Tim Dawson @timblor.bsky.social · Aug 5
New paper by @diegosismologo.bsky.social and others out now about the 2025 M7.8 Myanmar earthquake. Includes some of the paleoseismic results from trenching we did a fews ago before the earthquake.
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🌏A Supershear Earthquake Strikes Myanmar: Fast, Long, and Repeating
Melgar et al. reveal a fast 450 km rupture from March 28 M7.8 quake, ties to past Sagaing Fault quakes, highlighting seismic repeatability & the urgent need for resilience.
Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...
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paleoseismicity.org @paleoseismicity.bsky.social · Aug 15
Registration is open for the 2026 PATA Days in Guatemala. 1-6 February, 2026

PATA = Int'l workshop on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics, Archaeoseismology.
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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · Sep 11
Short stop at gorgeous #Forsinard Flows in the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Highlands, on our way to the #Shetland Islands in search of further palaeo-storm records and #tsunami deposits. Stay tuned...
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paleoseismicity.org @paleoseismicity.bsky.social · Sep 8
New papers on paleoseismology, active tectonics, and archaeoseismology (Sep 2025)
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» New papers on paleoseismology, active tectonics, and archaeoseismology (Sep 2025)
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Jacek Szczygieł @speleojacek.bsky.social · Sep 5
📢Fresh off the press
Unexpected latest Pleistocene W-dipping reverse fault-slip in the Maritimes Alps (SE France)—Insights from passage offset in Mescla Cave
Now available in J. Of Quaternary Science

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
All started from discussion on PATAdays22
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Dave Petley @davepetley.bsky.social · Sep 8
Survivors of the 1 September 2025 earthquake in Afghanistan have correctly assessed that rainfall-triggered landslides are much more likely in the aftermath of the mainshock. This illustrates how landslides extend the impact of an earthquake in time and space.
www.reuters.com/business/env...
Afghan earthquake survivors refuse to return to villages, fearing landslides
Haunted by the fear that aftershocks could bring rocks crashing down from the mountains, the survivors of Afghan earthquakes vowed not to return to destroyed villages but camp in fields and on riverbanks instead, even without tents to keep off the rain.
www.reuters.com
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Brian Olson @brianolson.bsky.social · Sep 8
Tom Rockwell (Distinguished Lecture) kicking off the 2025 SCEC meeting! Small offset per event (smaller magnitude) produces narrower damage zone in nearby rocks. Serves as a proxy for max magnitude per rupture event. #scecmeet #scec2025 🧪
Tom Rockwell standing on the stage in front of 4 chairs. On the left is a large projection screen showing one of his slides that includes a photomicrograph of fractured mineral grains. A slide from Tom’s talk showing an annotated aerial view of the San Andreas Fault near Little Rock and a photomicrograph on the right showing pulverized mineral grains from a sample collected several meters from the main fault plane. Summary slide of Tom’s talk labeled: General Summary of Physical Damage. Includes three categories: small displacement (less than 1 meter), moderate (1.5 to 2.7 meter), and large displacement (3 to 6 meters).
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RAS Journals @rasjournals.bsky.social · Sep 5
Published in #GJI Geophysical Journal International: "Geometric control of the 1985 Wuqia Earthquake Rupture: insights from optical image correlation", Zhang et al. This is Fig. 1: for the caption & to read the paper please visit academic.oup.com/gji/article/... @royalastrosoc.bsky.social
Tectonic and seismicity of the study area. (a) Topography of the Pamir region and its surrounding areas, along with GPS velocities relative to the stable Eurasian plate (Wang and Shen, 2020). Black and yellow rectangles represent the profile of GPS velocities and location of panel c, respectively. MPT = Main Pamir Thrust, PFT = Pamir Frontal Thrust, STST = Southern Tian Shan Thrust. (b) GPS velocity of profile A-A′ within the black rectangles in (a). (c) is a zoom of the yellow rectangular region in panel (a). Blue and purple polygons indicate the coverage areas of the KH-9 panoramic and WorldView-3 images, respectively. Red, pink focal mechanisms depict the main shock and aftershocks of 1985 Wuqia earthquake, as reported by Burtman & Molnar (1993), Fan et al. (1994) and GCMT (https://www.globalcmt.org/). Cyan dots represent magnitude < 5.0 earthquakes. Epicentres of historical magnitude ≥ 5.0 earthquakes in the period 1969–2020 from USGS (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/) and Li et al. (2019) are shown as black focal mechanisms and yellow dots. TT = Tuomuluoan Thrust, WHSL = Wuheshalu syncline, KES = Kongur Extensional System. (d) Red solid line and green dots represents the coseismic surface ruptures from field investigation (Feng et al. 1987, 1988) and red dashed line shows an inferred rupture of 1985 Wuqia earthquake from Li et al. (2019). Purple crosses correspond to the location of the GCPs for image registration in Section 3.1.
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Seismological Society of America @seismosocam.bsky.social · Sep 4
Southern California’s San Fernando Valley has high earthquake hazard. A new #SRL study reveals the basin’s geometry and unmapped faults at depth. ⚒️

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Katleen Wils @katleenwils.bsky.social · Jul 14
Subaquatic #paleoseismology is a great tool to reconstruct past #earthquakes! But which components of #shaking are the #turbidites we study actually recording? 🤔

💡📢 Find out in my latest #publication ⏬ @seismosocam.bsky.social

Another step closer to #quantitative paleoseismology! 👩‍🔬🥳
Peak Ground Velocity and Shaking Duration Control Coseismic Surficial Sediment Remobilization on Lacustrine Slopes and Emplacement of Seismoturbidites | Seismological Research Letters | GeoScienceWorl...
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Tina Dura @diatomdura.bsky.social · Jul 16
Excited to see this product from our Cascadia Paleoseismology Working Group (CPAL) out! Huge shoutout to Lydia Staisch for spearheading this effort along with lots of input from the coastal paleoseismology community. Check it out for all of your paleoseismic dataset needs!
cascadiaeqs.bsky.social CRESCENT @cascadiaeqs.bsky.social · Jul 16
We are delighted to announce the release of the CRESCENT Cascadia Paleoseismology (CPAL) Viewer, a web-based platform for mapping, cataloging, and visualizing paleoseismic datasets associated with past earthquake evidence along the Cascadia Subduction Zone. ⬇️
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Northern Arizona University School of Earth and Sustainability @nau-ses.bsky.social · Aug 19
Grad student Aubrey LaPlante publishes results of mapping that tracks variations in paleo earthquake surface ruptures in Eastern California #ECSZ #paleoseismology #EDMAP #AGeS #NAU_geology, #SES_publications, #SES_students @rengellia.bsky.social pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsw/lithosph...
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paleoseismicity.org @paleoseismicity.bsky.social · Aug 18
Trapped Charge Techniques Pinpoint Past Fault Slip eos.org/editor-highl...
Trapped Charge Techniques Pinpoint Past Fault Slip - Eos
Scientists combine two novel dating techniques on fault gouge to better pinpoint the timing and nature of past fault activity in the Eastern Alps.
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paleoseismicity.org @paleoseismicity.bsky.social · Aug 15
Deadline for travel grant application: 15 September
Deadline for registration and short abstract: 31 October 2025
Deadline for extended, four-page abstracts: 1 December
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paleoseismicity.org @paleoseismicity.bsky.social · Aug 15
An optional pre-conference field trip will explore the plate boundary between N America and the Caribbean, including visits to paleoseismological trenches.
A bird's eye view of a paleoseismological trench
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paleoseismicity.org @paleoseismicity.bsky.social · Aug 15
The workshop will be held in Antigua Guatemala, including talks and posters as well as walking tours to see earthquake damage in the city.
Agua volcano at night, a city in the foreground
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