Islands of chaos in a sea of periodic earthquakes

J Gauriau, S Barbot, JF Dolan - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Long paleoseismic records on mature faults suggest potentially chaotic recurrence patterns
with cycles of strain accumulation and release that challenge simple slip-or time-predictable …

Coseismic river avulsion on surface rupturing faults: Assessing earthquake-induced flood hazard

E McEwan, T Stahl, A Howell, R Langridge… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Surface-rupturing earthquakes can produce fault displacements that abruptly alter the
established course of rivers. Several notable examples of fault rupture–induced river …

[HTML][HTML] Global versus local clustering of seismicity: Implications with earthquake prediction

D Zaccagnino, L Telesca, C Doglioni - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2023 - Elsevier
The estimation of the maximum expected magnitude is crucial for seismic hazard
assessment. It is usually inferred via Bayesian analysis; alternatively, the size of the largest …

[HTML][HTML] The role of three-dimensional fault interactions in creating complex seismic sequences

Y Yin, P Galvez, ER Heimisson, S Wiemer - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
A physics-based earthquake simulator should reproduce first-order empirical power-law
behaviors of magnitudes and clustering. These laws have emerged spontaneously in either …

[HTML][HTML] Seismogenic potential and tsunami threat of the strike-slip Carboneras fault in the western Mediterranean from physics-based earthquake simulations

JA Álvarez-Gómez, P Herrero-Barbero… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2023 - nhess.copernicus.org
Strike-slip fault ruptures have a limited capacity to generate vertical deformation, and for this
reason they are usually dismissed as potential destructive tsunami sources. At the western …

Impact of Variable Fault Geometries and Slip Rates on Earthquake Catalogs From Physics‐Based Simulations of a Normal Fault

E Delogkos, A Howell, H Seebeck… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Physics‐based earthquake simulators have been developed to overcome the relatively short
duration and incompleteness of historical earthquake and paleoseismic records …

[PDF][PDF]  Insights into the ecological impact of trout introduction in an oligotrophic lake using sedimentary environmental DNA

LA Schallenberg, G Thomson-Laing… - Metabarcoding and …, 2023 - mbmg.pensoft.net
Introduced trout can induce trophic cascades, however, a lack of pre-introduction data limits
knowledge on their impact in many lakes. Traditional paleolimnological approaches have …

Holocene Earthquake Cycles of an Active Tectonic Block Boundary Fault Zone: A Case Study in the Qilian–Haiyuan Fault Zone, Northeastern Tibet Plateau

S Liang, W Zheng, D Zhang, H Peng, X Sun… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Fault zones along active tectonic block boundaries are a significant source of devastating
continental earthquakes. Strong earthquakes produce disruptions of sediment and induce …

Communicating natural hazard risks to Chinese visitors: a case study from New Zealand

A Cui, J Fountain, S Espiner - Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Research has shown that tourists are vulnerable to natural hazards during their
travels. For this reason, communicating potential natural hazard risks to tourists prior to, and …

Alluvial fan response to Alpine Fault earthquakes on the Westland piedmont, Whataroa, Aotearoa‐New Zealand

PC Almond, K Berryman, P Villamor… - Earth Surface …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We examined the stratigraphy of alluvial fans formed at the steep range front of the Southern
Alps at Te Taho, on the north bank of the Whataroa River in central West Coast, South …