• Jebel
    23 Mar 2012 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (31) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/03/23/whats-up-the-friday-links-31/ Elsevier is facing ongoing protests, especially from the blogosphere. Not only did thousands of scientists sign the boycott (no publishing, no reviewing, no editorial...
  • Japan featured
    22 Nov 2011 Christoph Grützner New paper on the Japan 2011 tsunami and implications for paleotsunami research – Updated http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/11/22/new-paper-on-the-japan-2011-tsunami-and-implications-for-paleotsunami-research/ Goto et al. published a short paper on the Japan 2011 tsunami and implications for paleotsunami research in Marine Geology: Goto, K., Chagué-Goff, C.,...
  • Baelo
    4 Nov 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (21) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/11/04/whats-up-the-friday-links-21/ The Geological Survey of India released a report on earthquake-triggered landslides following the M6.9 Sikkim Earthquake, 18 September 2011. A total of 210 landslides...
  • Boudinage Column
    21 Oct 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (19) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/10/21/whats-up-the-friday-links-19/ Let’s start with some good news: The first two Galileo satellites (Natalia and Thijs) will be launched today from Kourou. It’s a little behind...
  • L'Aquila 1999 earthquake: Slip distribution at depth and stress transfer
    1 Oct 2011 Salvatore Barba New paper on L’Aquila earthquake http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/10/01/new-paper-on-laquila-earthquake/ Based on a new inversion of InSAR data, De Natale et al. predicted that the Avezzano and Sulmona tectonic domains, in Central Italy, may...
  • sunrise featured
    20 Sep 2011 Christoph Grützner 2nd day of the Corinth2011 meeting http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/09/20/2nd-day-of-the-corinth2011-meeting/ 9:00 The second day started with a great keynote, Chris Scholz talked about earthquake triggering and fault synchronization with examples from California and Iceland....
  • Wave featured
    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...
  • Rurrand featrued
    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...
  • Quat Int feat
    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...
  • Lake Ohrid featured
    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,...
  • Morphology of the Ventas de Zafarraya Fault (SRTM data).
    1 Jun 2011 Christoph Grützner The Wednesday Centerfault (5) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/06/01/the-wednesday-centerfault-5/ After we dealt with some faults in Greece, let’s move to Spain. The Ventas de Zafarraya Fault (VZF) west of the Granada basin (36.96°...
  • Ze'elim Gully Seismites
    28 Apr 2011 Christoph Grützner New paper on the paleoseismicity of the Dead Sea – Kagan et al., 2011 http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/04/28/new-paper-on-the-paleoseismicity-of-the-dead-sea-kagan-et-al-2011/ Some days ago a new paper on the paleoseismicity of the Dead Sea area during the late Holocene has been published in JGR. Kagan...
  • Kaparelli Fault, Greece
    27 Apr 2011 Christoph Grützner The Wednesday Centerfault (1) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/04/27/the-wednesday-centerfault-1/ It’s not easy to prepare weekly Friday links when you are abroad, this is what I had to realize in April. However, I will...
  • Dead Sea seismites
    17 Apr 2011 Christoph Grützner New paper: Alsop & Marco: Soft-Sediment deformation within seismogenic slumps of the Dead Sea Basin http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/04/17/new-paper-alsop-marco-soft-sediment-deformation-within-seismogenic-slumps-of-the-dead-sea-basin/ Some days ago, a great new paper was published on the investigation of soft-sediment deformation in paleoseismology: “Alsop & Marco 2011: Soft-Sediment deformation within...
  • darwin_gap
    15 Feb 2011 Tomas Fernandez-Steeger Friday’s earthquake and Darwin gap http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/02/15/814/ A nice short discussion about the Lorito et al., 2011 paper regarding the seismic gap at the Chilean coast and seismic slip during the...
  • 8 Feb 2011 Christoph Grützner Searching for Records of Past Earthquakes Under Water http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/02/08/searching-for-records-of-past-earthquakes-under-water/ In its latest issue, EOS reports on the European Science Foundation conference “Submarine Paleoseismology – The Offshore Search of Large Holocene Earthquakes” which was held...
  • 4 Feb 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (5). http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/02/04/whats-up-the-friday-links-5/ The Accredtionary Wedge #30 blog carnival hosted by Mountain Beltway came up with a tasting idea in January: The Geological Bake Sale. Explore and...
  • 28 Jan 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (4) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/01/28/whats-up-the-friday-links-4/ The California Geological Survey provides a great online-tool for geoscientist: A fault map of California (Alquist-Priolo-Fault-Zone with all datasets available in PDF and GIS...
  • 4 Jan 2011 Christoph Grützner “spektrumdirekt” reports on archeoseismology http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/01/04/spektrumdirekt-reports-on-archeoseismology/ The online science magazine “spektrumdirekt” reports on the archeoseismological and paleoseismological studies in Baelo Claudia, Southern Spain. The article focusses on tsunami hazard in...
  • 22 Nov 2010 Christoph Grützner BSSA Special Issue on the Wenchuan Earthquake http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2010/11/22/bssa-special-issue-on-the-wenchuan-earthquake/ The Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America has published a Special Issue on the 2008 Wenchuan, China, Earthquake. This event, also known as...
  • 15 Nov 2010 Klaus Reicherter New Paper on Neotectonics of the Lake Ohrid Basin out http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2010/11/15/new-paper-on-neotectonics-of-the-lake-ohrid-basin-out/ Nadine published a paper on Lake Ohrid at Biogeosciences (open access): Evolution of ancient Lake Ohrid: a tectonic perspective. Authors are N. Hoffmann, K....
  • 5 Nov 2010 Christoph Grützner New publication on Ancient Earthquakes http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2010/11/05/new-publication-on-ancient-earthquakes/ GSA has published a new Special Paper on Archaeo- and Paleoseismicity! ANCIENT EARTHQUAKES M. Sintubin, I.S. Stewart, T. Niemi & E. Altunel, Eds., Geological...
  • 20 Oct 2010 Christoph Grützner New Tsunami-papers published! http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2010/10/20/hello/ Two new paper were published on tsunami research in the Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie: Reicherter, K., Vonberg, D., Koster B., Fernández-Steeger T., Grützner, C. &...