Monthly Archives: August 2011

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  31 Aug 2011 Christoph Grützner New paper on the post-depositional changes of Tsunamites http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/08/31/new-paper-on-the-post-depositional-changes-of-tsunamites/ A new paper published in Natural Hazards today discusses post-depositional changes of tsunamites. At sites in Thailand covered by sediments of the 2004 Sumatra...

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  29 Aug 2011 Christoph Grützner GSA Special Paper 479 – Geological Criteria for Evaluating Seismicity Revisited: Forty Years of Paleoseismic Investigations and the Natural Record of Past Earthquakes http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/08/29/gsa-special-paper-479-geological-criteria-for-evaluating-seismicity-revisited-forty-years-of-paleoseismic-investigations-and-the-natural-record-of-past-earthquakes/ A new book with focus on paleoseismology has been published by GSA. Special Paper 479 – “Geological Criteria for Evaluating Seismicity Revisited: Forty Years...

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  24 Aug 2011 Christoph Grützner The Wednesday Centerfault (8) – Virginia M5.8 Earthquake http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/08/24/the-wednesday-centerfault-8-virginia-m5-8-earthquake/ Yesterday, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake happened near Mineral, Virginia in a depth of 6 km only (37.936°N, 77.933°W) with a thrust faulting mechanism. Media...

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  22 Aug 2011 Christoph Grützner Special issue on Archaeology and Paleoseismology in Quat. Int. 242 http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/08/22/special-issue-on-archaeology-and-paleoseismology-in-quat-int-242/ It is our greatest pleasure to announce that a new special issue on paleo- and archaeoseismology has been published. The special issue of Quaternary...

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  10 Aug 2011 Christoph Grützner Where on GoogleEarth? WoGE #306 (Updated) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/08/10/where-on-googleearth-woge-306/ Matthew’s WoGE #305 showed one of the rare sandstone outcrops in Georgia, the Broxton Rocks. The best hint was in the image source: “USDA...

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  5 Aug 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (18) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/08/05/whats-up-the-friday-links-18/ Earthquake prediction again: The former president of India, Abdul Kalam, said earthquake prediction will be possible within 10 years. It would be great if...

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  3 Aug 2011 Christoph Grützner New paper on active tectonics at Lake Ohrid http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/08/03/new-paper-on-active-tectonics-at-lake-ohrid/ Our new paper on lake Ohrid was published in the ZDGG: Reicherter, K., Hoffmann, N., Lindhorst, K., Krastel, S., Fernandez-Steeger, T.M., Grützner, C., Wiatr,...

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  1 Aug 2011 Klaus Reicherter Reprise of the XVIII INQUA meeting in Berne, Switzerland, 2011 http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/08/01/reprise-of-the-xviii-inqua-meeting-in-berne-switzerland-2011/ Dear friends, colleagues, and followers, last week the XVIII INQUA Congress took place in Berne (Switzerland). The session “Paleoseismology, megacities and critical social infrastructures” that...