BSSA Call for Papers: Extended Deadline for Special Issue on Earthquakes in Slowly Deforming Mountain Belts
Seismological Society of America
BSSA Call for Papers: Special Issue on Earthquakes in Slowly Deforming Mountain Belts
Deadline for Submission EXTENDED: 31 July 2024
The Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA) is soliciting papers for a Special Issue on earthquakes in slowly deforming mountain belts, with a focus on the 2023 Moroccan High Atlas earthquake and the 2023 western Afghanistan earthquake quadruplet.
In this Special Issue, BSSA aims to focus on the seismological work being undertaken in these regions, particularly by local researchers and institutions, and to raise global awareness of seismic hazard and risk arising from local traditional construction practices in remote rural mountain regions.
We solicit contributions from all fields of earthquake science, earthquake engineering, but also social sciences, to shed light on seismic hazard assessment and risk mitigation in regions like the High Atlas or similar tectonic environment. The seismotectonic context, remote-sensing imagery and field investigations suggests that the 08 Sept 2023 mainshock in Morocco was a blind thrust rupture. Hypocentral locations of the Afghanistan earthquakes indicate an eastward migration of the sequence. These earthquakes also raise numerous questions related to geodynamics, seismotectonics, strain partitioning, distributed faulting and earthquake triggering, seismic source characteristics, near- and far-field ground motions, near-field damage, rockfall distributions, and seismic hazard of slowly deforming mountain belts.
Deadline for Submission: 31 July 2024
Articles accepted to this BSSA Special Issue will be published online soon after acceptance and collectively in print in the April 2025 issue. Papers will be reviewed as they are received and published online prior to the print issue.
Papers must be submitted via the BSSA online submission system (www.edmgr.com/bssa) under the category “Earthquakes in Slowly Deforming Mountain Belts .