32 (1) (Paleo)-Earthquake and -Tsunami Science
Earthquakes can generate mass movements and deformation on the Earth's surface, and in some cases they also generate tsunamis in aquatic systems. The traces associated with these events are diverse and can be found in multiple environments. Understanding the formation mechanisms of past seismic events, reconstructing magnitude and frequency of these events are important for assessing future hazards and helps identying highly vulnerable regions.
The Spring 2024 Special Issue of the PAGES Magazine contains 19 articles combining multiple approaches to identify (Paleo)-Earthquake and -Tsunami records, dating precisely these events, and assessing the impact on the environment and on human societies.
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Individual Articles
Editorial
> Advances and challenges of (paleo)-earthquake and -tsunami research [p. 03]
Kremer K., Strupler M., Wils K., Gastineau R. and Izquierdo T.
Science Highlights
> Calibrating the subaqueous seismograph: Using recent events to inform our knowledge of the past [p. 04-05]
Singleton D.M., Brothers D.S., Haeussler P.J., Witter R.C. and Hill J. C.
> Relationship between fault source, ground motions and marine turbidites emplaced by the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake [p. 06-07]
Howarth J.D., Orpin A.R., Tickle S.E., Kenako Y., Maier K.L., Strachan L.J. and Nodder S.D.
> A major paleoearthquake in central Canada interpreted from early postglacial subaqueous mass transport deposits [p. 08-09]
Brooks G.R.
> Seismites as new indicators of regional tectonism [p. 10-11]
Lu Y.
> Combining remote sensing, geophysics, and paleoseismology to study earthquakes on the Idrija Fault in Slovenia [p. 12-13]
Grützner C.
> Paleoseismic studies reveal the high seismic hazard potential of the Matano fault, Sulawesi, Indonesia [p. 14-15]
Patria A. and Daryono M.R.
> Combining geological and archaeological evidence to infer the recent tectonics of the Montagne du Vuache Fault, Jura Mountains, France [p. 16-17]
Lallemand T., Audin L., Quiquerez A., Baize S., Grebot R. and Mathey M.
> Seismic seconds: The challenges of precisely dating and timing earthquakes in New England in the past four centuries [p. 18-19]
Kleemann K.
> Combining onshore-offshore paleoseismic records to test for synchronicity of coastal deformation [p. 20-21]
Pizer C., Howarth J.D. and Clark K.J.
> Investigating past earthquakes with coral microatolls [p. 22-23]
Philibosian B.
> The importance of diatoms for understanding subduction zone earthquakes in Alaska [p. 24-25]
Summers G.F., Engelhart S.E. and Woodroffe S.A.
> Diatoms as indicators of coseismic, postseismic, and interseismic deformation along subduction zones over centennial and millennial timescales [p. 26-27]
Dura T. and DePaolis J.
> Diatoms in earthquake and tsunami reconstruction along the Chilean subduction zone: valuable proxies of a paleoseismologist’s toolkit [p. 28-29]
Hocking E.P., Garrett E. and Dura T.
> Reconstructing Coastal Evidence for Earthquakes and Tsunamis using Elemental (XRF) Geochemistry [p. 30-31]
Giang A., Hong I. and Pilarczyk J.E.
> Comparing recent cyclone and tsunami deposits from southeast India [p. 32-33]
Gouramanis C., Yap W., Srinivasalu S., Anandasabari K., Pham D.T. and Switzer A.D.
> Earthquake-related tsunami archives based on sediments from coastal lagoons in the Lesser Antilles [p. 34-35]
Fabbri S.C., Sabatier P., Paris R., Biguenet M., Falvard S., Feuillet N., St-Onge G. and Chaumillon E.
> Characterization of paleotsunami deposits along the western coast of India [p. 36-37]
Prizomwala S.P., Pandey U., Tandon A., Makwana N. and Das A.
> Tsunami deposits to reconstruct major earthquakes chronology in southern Peru [p. 38-39]
Cuven S., Paris R., Audin L., Mitra S., Gielly L. and Aguirre E.
> The camouflaged tsunami record of arid coasts: Looking for sand in the Atacama Desert [p. 40-41]
Izquierdo T. and Abad M.
Spotlight
> A palaeo-reanalysis of global monthly 3D climate since 1421 CE [p. 42-43] > Hidden from plain sight: Sclerosponges as environmental archives of ocean conditions from the surface to the mesophotic zone [p. 44-45]
Fellowship Reports
> Atmospheric dryness recorded in tree rings of Araucaria araucana from the northwest of the Patagonian Steppe [p. 46] > Sediment sources and transport pathways to the western South Atlantic since Termination I [p. 47] > Dust flux estimates for the last glacial-interglacial cycle in southern South America based on loess deposits [p. 48] > What signs of climate variability can be extracted from the quantitative wood anatomy of Cedrela fissilis Vell. rings? [p. 49]
Workshop Reports
> The 5th Summer School on Speleothem Science [p. 50] > Dendrochronological potential of the tropical wet miombo trees unveiled through African Fieldschools [p. 51] > An initiative to better understand the future ice-ocean-atmosphere interactions between the Southern Ocean and Antarctica from the past critical periods [p. 52]
> Instabilities and Thresholds in Antarctica [p. 53] > Young researchers explore climate histories [p. 54] > The atypical interglacial of MIS 11c and the long-term change in interglacial intensity over the past 800 kyr [p. 55] > Fire science Learning AcRoss the Earth system (FLARE) workshop [p. 56] > Human Traces: Holocene-scale lake sediment Pb records, a database and review [p. 57]
Data stewardship report
> Generating high-resolution chronological databases with varves and tephra [p. 58] > The CoralHydro2k Seawater δ18O Database [p. 59] > A Southern Ocean sea-surface temperature compilation for the Last Glacial Cycle [p. 60] > A global database of carbon and oxygen isotopes for the last deglaciation [p. 61]
Data stewardship
Opinion
> What defines an "early-career researcher" in the paleosciences? [p. 63]
