Monday, January 13, 2025
Dear SCEC Community,
See the following announcements:
  • Submit your SSA abstract: The landscape record of earthquakes and faulting
  • EGU 2025 Call for abstract - session EOS1.2 Earth sciences and Art
  • Divulgation SSA 2025 session Earthquake Shaking and the Geologic Record
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On behalf of Nadine G. Reitman, USGS

Submit your SSA abstract: The landscape record of earthquakes and faulting

Please consider submitting your SSA abstract to the session: The landscape record of earthquakes and faulting. We welcome submissions from earthquake geology, tectonic geomorphology, tectonic geodesy, physical and numerical fault models, and more.

Submit your abstract here: https://meetings.seismosoc.org/

Description:
Recent earthquakes have left vastly different records in the landscape, from coastal uplift in the 2024 Mw7.5 Noto, Japan, earthquake to large lateral surface rupture in the 2023 Mw7.8 and Mw7.5 Türkiye earthquakes, and subtle or blind displacement in the 2024 Mw7.0 Aykol, China, earthquake. How long the earthquake record remains in the landscape depends on the surface rupture (or lack thereof) and shaking signatures of the earthquake as well as the lithology and climate of the region. Field and remote sensing observations of recent and past ruptures highlight the variable rupture geometries, surface slip distributions, damage zones, distributed or off-fault deformation, and ground shaking. The extent to which the complex and heterogenous patterns are consistent or variable between earthquakes is a fundamental question in earthquake science, critical for hazard modeling, and remains largely unknown. Meanwhile, advances in numerical and physical models and laboratory experiments expand the ability to study strain accumulation and release and the landscape response through multiple earthquake cycles. In this session, we encourage abstracts that investigate spatial and temporal patterns in strain accumulation and release spanning coseismic to geologic timescales, including their causes and uncertainties. We welcome contributions from geodesy, earthquake geology, tectonic geomorphology, lacustrine paleoseismology, numerical modeling, analog experiments, and especially contributions with novel approaches integrating multiple data sources to further our understanding of how strain accumulation and release are stored in, interpreted from, and alter the landscape.

Conveners:
Nadine Reitman, USGS
Jessica Thompson Jobe, USGS
Solene Antoine, CalTech
Hanna Elson, Smith
Sean Bemis, Virginia Tech
Ron Counts, University of Mississippi

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On behalf of Tiziana Lanza, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia

EGU 2025 Call for abstract - session EOS1.2 Earth sciences and Art

We would like to remind you to submit an abstract to the Earth sciences and Art session that we are organizing within the 2025 European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly (Vienna, Austria, 27 April-2 May 2025). Please note that the deadline for abstract submission is 15 January 2025, 13:00 CET Session EOS 1.2 Exploring the Art-Science interface Modern-day challenges such as climate change, pollution, desertification, natural hazards, and species extinction demand urgent solutions. While science is often at the forefront of addressing these issues, art has traditionally been seen primarily as a source of entertainment. However, a growing community of artists and scientists is coming together to address these pressing concerns. Art, with its ability to evoke emotion, serves as a powerful tool for cognitive learning and delivering messages that reignite a sense of beauty and responsibility for the planet. Collaborations between scientists and artists are becoming essential in engaging people more deeply with environmental issues and promoting sustainable lifestyles. These interdisciplinary partnerships offer a unique way to communicate complex scientific topics to non-experts—particularly in areas like climate change, where public understanding can be fragmented or confused. Both scientific and artistic communities share a common interest and responsibility in raising awareness of planetary boundaries and the fragility of Earth's ecosystems. While traditional educational methods have addressed these challenges, science-art collaborations create new pathways for research and dialogue, offering a human and emotional context through artistic expression. This session aims to explore these interdisciplinary conversations through lectures, academic posters, and visual art displays. By symbiotically blending STEM and the arts, we hope to foster discussions on how these disciplines can collaborate to explore, communicate, and respond to the societal, economic, political, and environmental issues we face—ultimately driving more effective communication and action.

Submit your abstract here: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/session/52022

For details on how to submit an abstract please read the guidelines at the following link:
https://www.egu25.eu/programme/how_to_submit.html

Looking forward to your contributions!

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On behalf of Paula M. Figueiredo, North Carolina State University

Divulgation SSA 2025 session Earthquake Shaking and the Geologic Record

We would like to draw your attention and invite you to submit an abstract to a 2025 SSA session, which may be of interest to all of you who have an interest in earthquake and ground-shaking evidence

Earthquake Shaking and the Geologic Record: Triggered Phenomena and Preserved Fragile Geologic Features

The geologic record includes evidence of strong shaking from earthquakes, including shaking intensity and timing, with their distribution sometimes allowing earthquake locations to be inferred. Evidence of strong shaking intensities can also be due to ruptures of blind faults, providing further evidence for areas with less understood seismic occurrence. Some geologic shaking evidence is unique, preserving the rarest and most intense earthquake shaking over millennial timescales, which until recently have largely gone undocumented by seismometers. The geologic record of shaking includes turbidites, landslides, paleo liquefaction, speleothems, and fault-plane slickenlines. In addition, preserved fragile geologic features provide negative evidence for maximum shaking intensities.

In this session, we welcome presentations that:
  1. use geologic features to identify past strong ground motions, and infer the timing of such motions;
  2. characterize the distribution of past strong ground shaking and recognize seismogenic sources through regional evidence;
  3. estimate the likely maximum strengths of past ground motions permitted by the presence of fragile geologic features;
  4. develop methodologies to locate and constrain ages of geologic features indicative of past ground motions; and
  5. directly relate past strong ground motions to seismic hazard assessments.
Please note that the abstract submission deadline has now been extended to 14 January 2025

Conveners
Paula Marques Figueiredo, North Carolina State University (paula_figueiredo@ncsu.edu)
Devin F. McPhillips, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center (dmcphillips@usgs.gov)
Thomas L. Pratt, U.S. Geological Survey (tpratt@usgs.gov)
Mark W. Stirling, University of Otago (mark.stirling@otago.ac.nz)

To see the sessions and submission guidelines: https://meetings.seismosoc.org/submit/
Registration information: https://meetings.seismosoc.org/registration/

Hope to see you there!

Paula, Devin, Tom, and Mark
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