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We invite abstract submissions for two upcoming congresses: the ESC (European Seismological Commission) to be held in Istanbul, Turkey in September 2026; and the Inqua (International Union for Quaternary research) to be held in Lucknow, India in January-February 2027.

ESC congress

Check here the list of sessions. Deadline for abstract submission is 15 March 2026. Fault2SHA is a working group recognized by ESC since 2016; the ESC congress is thus the perfect way to celebrate 10 years of Fault2SHA activity.

We draw your attention on Session 28, which is a Joint ESC/SSA Sponsored Session entitled “Fault2SHA, transform and strike-slip faults underfoot, from seismotectonics to seismic hazard and modeling”.

Inqua congress

Check here the list of sessions. Deadline for abstract submission is 15 February 2026.

There are multiple sessions dealing with topics of potential interest for the Fault2SHA community. Among them, we draw your attention on Session 38 on the use of Quaternary sciences to understand sequences of geohazards and their interaction with infrastructure; and Session 69 on paleoseismology and fault displacement hazard characterization in onshore and offshore settings.

We are pleased to announce that in the next weeks we’re organizing two Lab talks – save the date! If you want to join the FDH lab and receive the links to attend the meetings, please contact Francesca Ferrario at francesca.ferrario (at) uninsubria.it

You can watch the recordings of past meetings on the Fault2SHA Youtube channel

Friday 28^th March at 15 UTC (16 Central European Time)

Speaker: Francesco Visini (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia)

Title: Rank-Dependent Empirical Regressions for Distributed Faulting of Dip-Slip Earthquakes

Thursday 10^th April at 14 UTC (16 Central European Summer Time – beware the switch to summer time zone)

Speaker: Octavi Goméz Novell (Instituto geológico y minero de España)

Title: Fault Surface rupture probabilities derived from an earthquake cycle simulator

See you soon,

The lab leaders Francesca, Paolo and Stephane

Our thoughts go out to the Moroccan populations affected by the powerful earthquake of September 8, 2023. Fault2sha, a European Seismological Commision working group, with numerous members working in a variety of fields related to seismic hazard assessment would like to reach out to our Maroccan colleagues to offer any help, remote or in the field, that may help understand the tectonic context of this earthquake and to improve our collective knowledge in this region, a key issues for the challenges facing the reconstruction ahead.

The IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) will organize a webinar on May 30, dealing with recent advances in probabilistic fault displacement hazard assessment for nuclear installations in light of geological reconnaissance findings.

The webinar will provide an overview of the contribution of collected field evidence for principal and distributed ruptures; present the geological reconnaissance survey findings for the 6 February 2023, Turkiye earthquake sequence; provide information on IAEA activities regarding PFDHA including results of a benchmarking study.

Find more details and register here!

We are pleased to announce a kick-off meeting of the Thematic Lab on Fault Displacement Hazard, to be held on Wed. 14^th June 2023; 17:00 – 18:30 CET (15-16:30 UTC; 12-13:30 ART; 8-9:30 PST) 

This first meeting will: 

1.  Introduce the aims of the Lab;
2.  Give the opportunity to all the participants to introduce themselves, share thoughts and expectations, share ideas of potential common interest – if you have an idea that needs to be explained with a figure, feel free to prepare one slide;
3. Planning future actions: all the ideas from the community are welcome! For the moment, we think short talk series can be a good way to start interactions for possible collaborations, e.g., 2 talks per meeting on stimulating topics, with large space for discussion. We are planning to have the first of the talk series in September 2023.

If you have a topic, or results from your research or experiences that can help the discussion and interactions, please propose your talk at the meeting.

If you know a colleague working on topics of potential interest for FDH, who does not know about the Lab, please invite her/him to join the Lab, or simply invite her/him to have a talk during a future meeting. 

Please, confirm your attendance to the kick-off meeting by sending an e-mail to Francesca (francesca.ferrario@uninsubria.it), so we will share with you the link to attend the meeting. 

Kind Regards, 

the coordinating team of the Fault2SHA FDH thematic Lab 

Paolo Boncio, Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti – Pescara, IT, paolo.boncio@unich.it 

Francesca Ferrario, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, IT francesca.ferrario@uninsubria.it 

Stéphane Baize, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, FR, stephane.baize@irsn.fr 

The deadline to submit your application for MSCA-DN TREAD project PhD positions has been postponed. The new deadline is 30th of April.  The topics range from fault mechanics and structural geology, to machine learning seismicity monitoring and modelling, to dynamic rupture modelling, seismic hazard and risk estimation, and much more. Visit https://tread-horizon.eu and submit your application. A new generation of earthquake researchers is waiting for you!

In the wake of the devasting 6th of February 2023 earthquake that hit a very wide region along the Turkey/Syria border, the members of the European Seismological Commission Fault2sha Working group wish to express their support to the families of the victims and all those doing their utmost today to continue to rescue and help the affected population. In silence, in the backstage, we continue our activities to improve knowledge and create synergies in the hope that tomorrow we shall never again witness similar catastrophes. 

To appreciate some of our actions, we encourage you to visit the two new thematic labs created following the 6th Fault2SHA Workshop in Chieti:

• Fault2SHA Post-earthquake Reconnaissance Lab; many new Fault2sha members have joined this laboratory, motivated by the occurrence of the recent earthquake in Turkey. Each one ready to help in presence or remotely.
• Fault2SHA Fault Displacement Hazard Lab; a laboratory to compare and test observations and modelling issues on this hot topic.

We also encourage you to visit our JOB OFFERS announcing the call for 11 PhD positions, in the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network of the Project TREAD. The selection will be carried out in various European institutions. We hope young people from the devastated areas can participate to the selection too, to build together a new generation of Fault2SHA scientists.

A year of Peace, Health, and Joy.

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