Category Archives For: Paper
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New Papers: BSSA Special Issue on the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, March 2011 http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2013/05/04/new-papers-bssa-special-issue-on-the-tohoku-earthquaek-and-tsunami-japan-march-2011/ The latest issue (May 2013) of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA) is dedicated to the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami of...
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Paleoseismological papers in the BSSA April 2013 issue http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2013/03/22/paleoseismological-papers-in-the-bssa-april-2013-issue/ BSSA’s most recent issue is full of paleoseismological work. The April 2013 issue contains a number of papers dealing with old earthquakes in Turkey,...
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New paleoseismology papers in BSSA http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2013/02/19/new-paleoseismology-papers-in-srl/ Several paleoseismology papers have been published in the latest issue of BSSA (103-1). There’s interesting new data on faults in New Zealand, California, and...
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Annals of Geophysics Vol. 55 – Active Tectonics in the Mediterranean and Europe http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2013/01/21/annals-of-geophysics-vol-55-active-tectonics-in-the-mediterranean-and-europe/ Annals of Geophysics’ latest Special Issue 55-5 is focussed on Earthquake Geology: Active tectonics in the Mediterranean and Europe: site studies and application of new...
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Earthquakes and Late Bronze Age collapse: the end of an old myth? http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2013/01/10/earthquakes-and-late-bronze-age-collapse-the-end-of-an-old-myth/ The collapse of Bronze Age civilizations c.1200 BC remains a persistent riddle in Eastern Mediterranean archaeology. Earthquakes, attacks of the Sea Peoples, climatic deterioration,...
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New tsunami and earthquake papers in SRL http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2013/01/10/new-tsunami-and-earthquake-papers-in-srl/ The latest issue of the Seismological Review Letters (SRL) contains some interesting papers on strong earthquakes, seismicity, and tsunamis. Here’s a list of papers...
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Has Roger Bilham been deported from India because of his seismic hazard warnings? http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/12/19/has-roger-bilham-been-deported-from-india-because-of-his-seismic-hazard-warnings/ A new story came up recently that sounds like the L’Aquila case, but the other way round. Dr. Roger Bilham from the University of...
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New paper on active faulting in Greece http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/12/12/new-paper-on-active-faulting-in-greece/ A new paper was just published on Active faulting in the north-eastern Aegean Sea Islands. Our colleague Alex Chatzipetros and his co-authors investigated the distribution...
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Things that cause earthquakes http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/12/04/things-that-cause-earthquakes/ So many things are said to cause earthquakes, things have become a little complex during the last years. For many people it might be...
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New paper on the archaeoseismology of Athens http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/11/15/new-paper-on-the-archaeoseismology-of-athens/ A new paper on the archaeoseismology of Athens, Greece, was published in the Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering by AMraseys and Psycharis. The authors investigated...