New papers on paleoseismology, active tectonics, and archaeoseismology (May 2025)

Most studies in this month’s list deal with the active tectonics of Asia and the Mediterranean, but we have a wide variety of different methods covered. Make sure to check out the latest applications of the ESI2007 scale. There are also very interesting papers on fault interaction and fault behaviour in general, about cascading hazards, and about quakes in lakes. And of course there is the really cool “InSAR lookbook”. Enjoy reading!

• Sethanant, I., & Nissen, E. (2025). The InSAR lookbook: an illustrated guide to earthquake interferograms. Seismica, 4(1).
• Zamani, N., Satolli, S., Murphy, M., Demory, F., Pace, B., Gattacceca, J., … & Ferré, E. C. (2025). Record of seismic slip in carbonates: insights from the Venere Fault during the 1915 Avezzano earthquake (Mw 7.0), Central Italy. Journal of Structural Geology, 105421.
• Ortler, M., Moernaut, J., Fiebig, M., Franco, A., Haas, J. N., Hajdas, I., … & Heine, E. (2025). Lacustrine sedimentary evidence of cascading mountain hazards at the inner-Alpine Lake Altaussee (Eastern Alps, Austria) during the Late Holocene. Sedimentary Geology, 106881.
• Hamiel, Y., Bilham, R., & Piatibratova, O. (2025). Characterizing shallow aseismic deformation along the dead sea pull‐apart basin using geodetic observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130(4), e2024JB030191.
• Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Howell, A., & Griffin, J. D. (2025). Comparison of paleoearthquake elapsed‐times and mean interevent‐times for a global data set of active faults: Implications for future earthquakes and seismic hazard. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130(4), e2024JB030036.
• Guo, P., Han, Z., Zhou, C., Gai, H., Niu, P., & Zhang, X. (2025). Multi‐segment ruptures of the 2023 Mw 6.0 Jishishan earthquake, Tibetan Plateau: Implications for seismogenic mechanisms of moderate earthquakes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130(4), e2024JB029368.
• Rodriguez Piceda, C., Mildon, Z. K., van den Ende, M., Ampuero, J. P., & Andrews, B. J. (2025). Normal fault interactions in seismic cycles and the impact of fault network geometry. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130(4), e2024JB030382.
• Lei, X., Liang, K., Ma, B., He, Z., Wang, J., Zhao, J., & Guan, Y. (2025). Vertical slip rate and tectonic context of the Langshan Piedmont Fault, northwestern Ordos area, China. Tectonics, 44(4), e2024TC008442.
• Capozzoli, A., Paoletti, V., Porfido, S., Michetti, A. M., & Nappi, R. (2025). The 1688 Sannio–Matese Earthquake: A Dataset of Environmental Effects Based on the ESI-07 Scale. Data, 10(3), 39.
• Mangiacapra, A., Petrillo, Z., Scippacercola, S., Valoroso, L., Nappi, R., Alessio, G., & Tripaldi, S. (2025). A New Robust Algorithm for Fault-Plane Parameters Identification: The 2009 L’Aquila (Central Italy) Seismic Sequence Case. Applied Sciences, 15(8), 4444.
• Ji, H., Li, A., Li, L., Wei, Z., & Ren, Z. (2025). Paleoseismology of the Anqiu–Juxian Fault, Tanlu Fault Zone, Reveals Evidence That It Is the Causative Fault of the 70 BC Anqiu Earthquake. Seismological Research Letters, 96(2A), 897-908.
• Quigley, M., Werner, T., Tang, Y., Clark, D., Griffin, J., & Yang, H. (2025). Exposure of Australian dams to seismic hazard from proximal faults. Environment Systems and Decisions, 45(2), 24.
• Dura, T., Chilton, W., Small, D., Garner, A. J., Hawkes, A., Melgar, D., Engelhart, S. E., Staisch, L. M., Witter, R. C., Nelson, A. R., Kelsey, H. M., Allan, J. C., Bruce, D., DePaolis, J., Priddy, M., Briggs, R. W., Weiss, R., La Selle, S., Willis, M. & Horton, B. P. (2025). Increased flood exposure in the Pacific Northwest following earthquake-driven subsidence and sea-level rise. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (18) e2424659122.
• Crawford, B. M., Swanson, E. M., Schultz-Fellenz, E. S., Givler, R., Baldwin, J., Lettis, W., … & Gray, B. (2025). Evidence for a Single Holocene Paleoseismic Event on the Pajarito Fault, Northern New Mexico. Environmental & Engineering Geoscience, 31(1), 19-35.
• Koçbulut, F., Softa, M., Akgün, E., Koşaroğlu, S., & Efe, A. (2025). Comprehensive assessment of induced seismicity and its implications for the Atatürk dam: Insights from trenching, seismic investigations, and paleo-stress analysis along the Bozova fault in the East Anatolian tectonic regime, Southeast Türkiye. Journal of Mountain Science, 22(4), 1205-1225.
• Mitchell, S., Sgambato, C., Robertson, J., Roberts, G. P., Walker, J. P. F., Mildon, Z., … & Rugen, E. J. (2025). Multi-millennia slip rate relationships between closely spaced across-strike faults: Temporal earthquake clustering of the Skinos and Pisia Faults, Greece, from in situ 36Cl cosmogenic exposure dating. Journal of Structural Geology, 105445.
• Chen, Y., Yuan, D., Sun, H., Zhan, Y., Li, H., Wen, Y., … & Yu, J. (2025). Characteristics of the recently identified seismic surface rupture zone along the eastern segment of the Kunzhong fault and its seismogeological significance, northern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Earth Science.
• Wen, Y., Yuan, D., Yu, J., Shao, Y., Li, S., Wang, Y., & Xiao, Q. (2025). The latest surface rupture along the western segment of the Qilian–Haiyuan fault and its implications. Journal of Structural Geology, 105448.
• Kamali, Z., Nazari, H., Esmali, S., & Hayhat, M. (2025). The first paleoseismological research on the Dorud fault: insights from the Darb Astana trench, southwestern Iran. Scientific Quarterly Journal of Geosciences.
• Boulton, S. J., Jones, J. N., Malcioglu, F. S., O’Kane, A., Cleave, M. D., Adamidis, O., … & Aktaş, Y. D. (2025). Earthquake environmental effects and ESI 2007 of the 6th February 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes along the East Anatolian Fault Zone (Türkiye). Quaternary International, 732, 109804.
• Deev, E. V., Olenchenko, V. V., Duchkov, A. A., Zaplavnova, A. A., & Safronov, O. V. (2025). GEOELECTRIC PATTERNS OF ACTIVE FAULTS IN PERMAFROST REGIONS (example of Russian highland and Arctic regions). Russian Geology and Geophysics, 66(5), 630-643.

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