Deadline for Submission: 1 July 2026
Recognizing the approaching 10th anniversary of the Kaikoura, New Zealand earthquake, BSSA invites contributions to a special issue on understanding, modeling and forecasting complex multi-fault earthquakes.
Complex multi-fault earthquakes pose numerous scientific challenges including their recognition in the paleoseismic record, interpretation and modeling of slip transfer processes, understanding the source dynamics that lead to such cascading earthquake ruptures, estimating ground motions, and developing seismic hazard models for spatially extensive fault networks.
BSSA invites special issue contributions that address the diversity of seismotectonic problems posed by complex multi-fault earthquakes, including field-based, computational, forecasting and hazard studies. Multidisciplinary contributions and those addressing secondary hazard processes such as landslides and tsunamis are particularly welcome.
Deadline for Submission: 1 July 2026
Articles accepted to this BSSA Special Issue will be published online soon after acceptance and collectively in print in the April 2027 issue. Papers will be reviewed as they are received and published online prior to the print issue.
In preparing manuscripts, authors must follow the BSSA author guidelines at www.seismosoc.org/publications/bssa-submission-guidelines/. Papers must be submitted via the BSSA online submission system (www.editorialmanager.com/bssa/) under the category “Complex Multi-Fault Earthquakes.”
