Earthquakes pose a significant hazard, and due to the growth of vulnerable, exposed
populations, global levels of seismic risk are increasing. In the past three decades, a …

Since the publication of Paleoseismology (2nd Edition) in 2009, there has been no
comprehensive survey of new trends in Quaternary tectonics. This paper seeks to remedy …

The study of surface ruptures is key to understanding the earthquake occurrence of faults
especially in the absence of historical events. We present a detailed analysis of geomorphic …

The Maidan fault, which is an east‐northeast trending fault in the southwestern Tian Shan, is
a sinistral reverse fault that extends more than 400 km in length and constitutes the …

Bending‐moment faults and flexural‐slip faults (FSFs), as two basic fault styles due to
bending‐related tangential longitudinal strain, extensively and prominently crop out as …

Uplift in the broken Andean foreland of the Argentine Santa Bárbara System (SBS) is
associated with the contractional reactivation of basement anisotropies, similar to those …

Abstract The Tian Shan mountain ranges in central Asia are one of the largest and most
active intracontinental orogenic belts in the world. Its Cenozoic reactivation and deformation …

Reconstruction of mass accumulation rates (MARs) in loess deposits are widely used for
interpreting long‐term aeolian transport and climate dynamics in terrestrial environments …

When viewed globally, earth-quakes hit hard within Asia, with many large death-toll events
located along the Alpine–Himalayan mountain belts 1. Devastating events in 2023 highlight …

Abstract The Tien Shan accommodates a significant portion of the India‐Eurasia N‐S
convergence. In its northern part a zigzag pattern of mountain ranges bounds the western Ili …