If you are dealing with multiple paleoseismological sites and want to correlate dates to improve your chronology, check out the Multi Sites Chronology (MUSIC) tool that is presented in the new paper by Pinzon & Klinger. All tools are available together with the paper: www.ipgp.fr/~klinger/web...

Setting up a GPS station in northern Iceland, the only place where you can monitor an oceanic ridge with GPS!

Nice thrust in south Gobi desert, Mongolia. Could be related to the 1960 M6.7 earthquake. To be tested by dating surrounding sediment. OSL only!

Fieldwork in Gobi desert, Mongolia. Cold nights, strong wind and nice faults

The classroom this morning

Lunch break on the beach after discussing the 1981 earthquake and related subsidence in the Corinth gulf, Greece. Welcome to the annual active tectonics field trip of IPGP!

Enjoy the new paper about off-fault deformation and the Mw7.4, 2021, Maduo earthquake, China, by S. Antoine et al. Just published in EPSL. Here the link for free download: authors.elsevier.com/c/1meLX,Ig4g...

Our cheerleader Tina is describing 1976 earthquake damages in Antigua, Guatemala during patadays2026 city tour

Day2 of patadays2026 field trip. More trenches, more offsets, more questions! Active tectonics in tropical environment is a real challenge

First day of the field trip along the 1976 M7.5 Guatemala earthquake, Patadays 2026

If you want to read about paleoseismology between rice paddies and water buffalos, check out our last paper about paleoseismology along the Aceh fault, in Indonesia: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m7C~98we9...

Yesterday was the 30 yrs of the Mw7.3 Nuweiba 1995 earthquake, along Dead Sea Fault. It reminds us that the DSF is active, produces large earthquakes, and thus is hazardous and should not be ignored. Our new GRL paper about the DSF is out just in time : dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Supershear Rupture of the 1995 Mw $ 7.2 Multi‐Segment Nuweiba Earthquake in the Gulf of Aqaba

Back-projection and dynamic simulations indicate multi-segment rupture of the 1995 Mw ${M}_{\mathrm{w}}$ 7.2 Nuweiba earthquake Supershear rupture can greatly amplify ground shaking, increasing s...

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Happy to share this new paper about the 2025 Mandalay earthquake discussing the seismic gap idea. Have a look here: rdcu.be/ePUg4

Seismic gap breached by the 2025 Mw 7.7 Mandalay (Myanmar) earthquake

Nature Geoscience - The 2025 Mw 7.7 Mandalay earthquake in Myanmar breached and propagated beyond a long-quiescent segment owing to a mechanically weak barrier at the segment boundary and distant...

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Visiting the Mw 7.4 2021 Maduo surface rupture. Still very fresh after 4 years. A new bridge has been build next to the one that did collapse during the earthquake, pretty much the only destruction. We are in the middle of Tibetan plateau, not over crowded, better for kind of event

Normal fault scarp along the eastern Kunlun fault system, China. At the base a 60cm high free face, undated.

Transferring seismo-tectonic studies into hazard studies is very important, although often neglected by us, researcher in university lab. Here is our the new paper by S. El-Kadri, our former PhD student, about seismic hazard in Lebanon and surrounding areas: nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/...

Implementation of an interconnected fault system in probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (PSHA): the Levant fault system

Abstract. The Levant fault system (LFS), a 1200 km long left-lateral strike-slip fault connecting the Red Sea to the East Anatolian fault, is a major source of seismic hazard in the Middle East. In th...

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Today we started to deploy 40 seismic pods along the Bulnai-Tsetserleg 1905 ruptures, Mongolia, to monitor microseismicity. They we’ll record activity for 3 weeks. This is a follow up of our previous deployment last year that recorded thousands of Eq.

With colleagues from IAG and KIGAM we are hunting for past earthquakes in South Gobi, Mongolia. This looks promising and we hope dating will work well

We are opening a post-doctoral position to study earthquake ruptures and earthquake cycle based on analogue modeling. Join our group that goes from field to image processing, numerical models, all the way to analogue models, to try to understand earthquake cycle. Check out the announcement.

Active fault field class in Greece with master students from IPGP. A unique occasion to go from modern earthquake to surface rupture, to uplifted terraces, to plate tectonics in a same place. A must-do iconic trip!

If you missed the amazing talks at the workshop Lithodef25 last February in IPGP, you can now screen most of them on IPGP YouTube channel. Enjoy!

🌍📖 L’IPGP et l'INGV publient The Science and Art of Paleoseismology ! Un ouvrage clé pour mieux comprendre les séismes anciens et affiner l’évaluation des risques sismiques. 🔬📚 🔗 En savoir plus : www.ipgp.fr/actus-et-age... #IPGP #INGV #Paléosismologie #Sismologie

The Science and Art of Paleoseismology : un ouvrage collectif pour enrichir la recherche et l'enseignement - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

Comprendre les séismes du passé pour mieux prévoir ceux de demain : tel est l'objectif de la paléosismologie. Cette discipline, qui s'appuie sur l ...

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You might also be interested by this work by Z. Liu who looked at the evolution of the creep along the East Anatolian Fault during inter-seismic and post-seismic time periods, following the Turkish 2023 earthquake sequence. Free access here : agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Interested in the Tibetan plateau active tectonics? Check out the new paper by Xu Fang et al. just published in J. Struct. Geol. It deals with forefront folding ahead of the Longmen Shan, well know since the 2008 Mw7.8 Wenshuan earthquake. Here : www.ipgp.fr/~klinger/web...

Also for free download the electronic version of the new book about paleoseismology and past earthquakes can be accessed here : link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

A bit of reading for the coming week-end. Check out our newly published paper about vertical deformation in Tibet by Liu S. et al. free here: www.ipgp.fr/~klinger/web...

We knew about off-fault deformation already, but here we see how wide the affected area can be! Check out the new paper by J. Liu et al. about the Kahramanmaras earthquake, using SAR data, just published : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Extensive off-fault damage around the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake surface ruptures - Nature Communications

This study uses satellite synthetic aperture radar images to quantify off-fault damage in the two 2023 Kahramanmaraş (Türkiye) magnitude 7.8 and 7.6 earthquakes. It reveals that off-fault damage consu...

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Beautiful 3D view of the surface rupture from the last event in Southern Tibet 1.95.66.59/t/3b94a72379...

Translation: Title: "We're Working: The Chinese Institute of Geology, Sichuan office, Tibet office United Investigation Team Finds the Dingri Earthquake's Coseismic Vertical Displacement Measures Up to 3 Meters" Posted by: "China Earthquake Administration"

Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo@paleoquake.bsky.social · 2y ago

Surface ruptures were already identified from the Mw 7.1 Xizang Southern Tibetan earthquake. Scarps up to 3 m. See link in Chinese but with photos mp.weixin.qq.com/s/qtB9yU9E6T...

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