Regular PATA Days, the Int’l INQUA workshop on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics and Archaeoseismology, take a break in those years in which INQUA holds its large congress. Instead, small summer schools are usually held: 2019 in Prague and 2023 in Palermo. In 2027, it will be a winter school coordinated with the INQUA congress in India:

The XXI INQUA Congress 2027 will take place in Lucknow, India, from 28 January to 3 February, 2027. A lot of paleoseismology and active tectonics will be present, mainly organized by INQUA’s TERPRO and CMP commissions.

Sessions:

• #30: Structural and Paleoseismological Perspectives in Seismic Hazard Characterization
• #38: Applied Quaternary Science: avoiding geohazards by understanding sequences
• #69: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Paleoseismology: From Onshore to Offshore Earthquake Records
• #85: Advances in Intracontinental Earthquake Geology: Insight into Seismic Potential Along the Himalayan Arc
• #95: Looking at Earthquakes like never before to build upon historical knowledge and modern technological interventions
• #124: Historical Earthquakes, Active Tectonics, and Paleoseismology – Multidisciplinary Perspective

Field trips:

• INPRE-01: Exploring Quaternary Geology of the Kachchh Basin, Western India: Insights into Past Climatic, Sea-Level, Tectonic Perturbations and its Significance into Geoarchaeology
• INPRE-10: Signatures of 2004 Sumatra-Andaman and past transoceanic tsunamis and mega-subduction Zone Earthquakes from Andaman Island
• INPOST-07: Quaternary Landscape Evolution, Active Tectonics and Drainage Reorganization at the Himalayan Mountain Front, NW Himalaya
• INPOST-08: Late Quaternary sedimentation pattern in the Alaknanda valley: climate-tectonic interaction
• INPOST-09: Paleo-earthquake Signatures – Active Fault Topography from NW Himalaya: A Field Excursion in the Mesoseismal Zone of 1905 Kangra earthquake – Mw7.8, NW Himalaya
• INPOST-12: Paleoseismic Investigation along the foothill zone of Assam Himalaya (Nameri Tiger Reserve), NE India
• INPOST-15: Late Quaternary Landscape Evolution in the Southern Ganga Plain at Kalpi and adjoining areas, Uttar Pradesh: Implications for Paleoclimate and Forebulge Tectonics

Workshop:

• Paleoseismology workshop 24-27 January, led by Tina Niemi and Shreya Arora to Ramnagar, India

Deadline for regular registration and field trip registration is 30 October. For the workshop, please get in touch with Tina (niemit@umkc.edu) or Shreya (sarora@bates.edu) directly.

This time we have two whole books in our list that will be surely of interest. One is about Himalayan Hazards, the other one is about the geomorphological impact of earthquakes. A rather large number of studies deals with faults, tsunamis, and earthquakes in Europe. Of course we also have plenty of papers covering other regions and methodological studies.
Enjoy reading!

It’s already September, time is flying – at least for me. This is the latest list of papers that deal with paleoseismology and active tectonics. If you published a study that would fit in here, please get in touch. And if you would like to write about your paleoseismology research or present ongoing project, please also don’t hesitate to drop me a mail. 

SSA’s journal Seismological Research Letters has issued a call for papers for a focus section on the destructive 2026 Venezuela and Colombia Earthquakes. Deadline for submissions is 21 December, 2026. Guest editors: Franck Audemard, Benazir Orihuela, Omar J. Pérez, Jorge G. F. Crempien, Carlos E. Reinoza Gómez, and Manuel Alberto Florez. 

On 24 June, two shallow earthquakes with magnitudes of M_W7.2 and M_W7.5, respectively, ruptured the coast of northern Venezuela in close succession, leaving thousands of people dead. On 10 August, an M_W7.5 event in ~100 km depth shook western Colombia, leading to hundreds of fatalities and the destruction of thousands of buildings.

Applications are invited for the IDASH Training Programme (Integration of Data and Approaches for Seismic Hazard Assessment in CEI Regions).

The programme offers a series of online lectures delivered by international experts, focusing on methods, data, and applications for seismic hazard assessment in the CEI (Central European Initiative) region and beyond.

Full information, lecture schedule, speakers, and the application form are available on the project website:

Project website: https://progetti.ingv.it/en/idash

Training Programme and Application Form:
https://progetti.ingv.it/en/idash/activities/training-program/idash-training-programme

Application deadline: 16 August 2026.

Applications are open to postgraduate, Master’s, and PhD students, early-career scientists, and senior experts from all CEI countries, both EU and non-EU members.

Priority for workshop participation and limited financial support or grants will be given to applicants from EU candidate countries within the CEI region, namely Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Ukraine.

Application for the online lectures (only) is open to anyone interested in attending the sessions, regardless of whether they are based in CEI member states or in countries outside the CEI region.

This time we have, among others, some nice papers on recent and not-so-recent seismites, very interesting methodological studies on paleoseismology and tectonic geomorphology, some cool coastal/offshore paleoseismology, and a few articles on earthquake geology from a hazard perspective. Enjoy reading!

Guest blog by Christopher B. DuRoss from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

The Great Salt Lake is the largest low-relief, terminal basin in the western United States. In a collaborative effort led by earthquake geologists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geologic Hazards Science Center (Golden, Colorado) and marine geophysicists from the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (Santa Cruz, California), we set out to explore whether this shallow, biogenic carbonate basin holds acoustic and sedimentary archives of past earthquake ruptures (DuRoss et al., 2026).

For some reason–and it may very well just be my personal bias–today’s list has a lot of studies on active tectonics of the Americas and Central Asia. But then the western US and the Andes plus Central Asia make up a good portion of the total seismic moment release apart from subduction quakes, so perhaps this is not unusual. At some point I’d like to make a world map showing seismic moment release vs. number and distribution of scientific studies…
Enjoy reading and please let me know if I’ve missed something.

This month we have many case studies from all around the world, including classical paleoseismology, historical data, and tectonic geomorphology. But there are also studies more leaning towards the methodological side of our discipline, and who would have thought that an entire new type of fault systems was just discovered? Enjoy reading!