Yann Klinger
@yklinger.bsky.social
CNRS & Institut de physique du globe de Paris (IPGP).
Present and past Earthquakes, active tectonics, earthquake cycle, and anything related.
www.ipgp.fr/~klinger
Present and past Earthquakes, active tectonics, earthquake cycle, and anything related.
www.ipgp.fr/~klinger
If you want to read about paleoseismology between rice paddies and water buffalos, check out our last paper about paleoseismology along the Aceh fault, in Indonesia:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1m7C~98we9...
authors.elsevier.com/c/1m7C~98we9...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
If you want to read about paleoseismology between rice paddies and water buffalos, check out our last paper about paleoseismology along the Aceh fault, in Indonesia:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1m7C~98we9...
authors.elsevier.com/c/1m7C~98we9...
Yesterday was the 30 yrs of the Mw7.3 Nuweiba 1995 earthquake, along Dead Sea Fault. It reminds us that the DSF is active, produces large earthquakes, and thus is hazardous and should not be ignored. Our new GRL paper about the DSF is out just in time : dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...
Supershear Rupture of the 1995 Mw $ 7.2 Multi‐Segment Nuweiba Earthquake in the Gulf of Aqaba
Back-projection and dynamic simulations indicate multi-segment rupture of the 1995 Mw ${M}_{\mathrm{w}}$ 7.2 Nuweiba earthquake
Supershear rupture can greatly amplify ground shaking, increasing s...
dx.doi.org
November 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Yesterday was the 30 yrs of the Mw7.3 Nuweiba 1995 earthquake, along Dead Sea Fault. It reminds us that the DSF is active, produces large earthquakes, and thus is hazardous and should not be ignored. Our new GRL paper about the DSF is out just in time : dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...
Happy to share this new paper about the 2025 Mandalay earthquake discussing the seismic gap idea. Have a look here: rdcu.be/ePUg4
Seismic gap breached by the 2025 Mw 7.7 Mandalay (Myanmar) earthquake
Nature Geoscience - The 2025 Mw 7.7 Mandalay earthquake in Myanmar breached and propagated beyond a long-quiescent segment owing to a mechanically weak barrier at the segment boundary and distant...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Happy to share this new paper about the 2025 Mandalay earthquake discussing the seismic gap idea. Have a look here: rdcu.be/ePUg4
Visiting the Mw 7.4 2021 Maduo surface rupture. Still very fresh after 4 years. A new bridge has been build next to the one that did collapse during the earthquake, pretty much the only destruction. We are in the middle of Tibetan plateau, not over crowded, better for kind of event
October 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Visiting the Mw 7.4 2021 Maduo surface rupture. Still very fresh after 4 years. A new bridge has been build next to the one that did collapse during the earthquake, pretty much the only destruction. We are in the middle of Tibetan plateau, not over crowded, better for kind of event
Normal fault scarp along the eastern Kunlun fault system, China. At the base a 60cm high free face, undated.
October 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Normal fault scarp along the eastern Kunlun fault system, China. At the base a 60cm high free face, undated.
Transferring seismo-tectonic studies into hazard studies is very important, although often neglected by us, researcher in university lab.
Here is our the new paper by S. El-Kadri, our former PhD student, about seismic hazard in Lebanon and surrounding areas:
nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/...
Here is our the new paper by S. El-Kadri, our former PhD student, about seismic hazard in Lebanon and surrounding areas:
nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/...
Implementation of an interconnected fault system in probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (PSHA): the Levant fault system
Abstract. The Levant fault system (LFS), a 1200 km long left-lateral strike-slip fault connecting the Red Sea to the East Anatolian fault, is a major source of seismic hazard in the Middle East. In th...
nhess.copernicus.org
September 15, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Transferring seismo-tectonic studies into hazard studies is very important, although often neglected by us, researcher in university lab.
Here is our the new paper by S. El-Kadri, our former PhD student, about seismic hazard in Lebanon and surrounding areas:
nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/...
Here is our the new paper by S. El-Kadri, our former PhD student, about seismic hazard in Lebanon and surrounding areas:
nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/...
Today we started to deploy 40 seismic pods along the Bulnai-Tsetserleg 1905 ruptures, Mongolia, to monitor microseismicity. They we’ll record activity for 3 weeks. This is a follow up of our previous deployment last year that recorded thousands of Eq.
July 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Today we started to deploy 40 seismic pods along the Bulnai-Tsetserleg 1905 ruptures, Mongolia, to monitor microseismicity. They we’ll record activity for 3 weeks. This is a follow up of our previous deployment last year that recorded thousands of Eq.
With colleagues from IAG and KIGAM we are hunting for past earthquakes in South Gobi, Mongolia. This looks promising and we hope dating will work well
July 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
With colleagues from IAG and KIGAM we are hunting for past earthquakes in South Gobi, Mongolia. This looks promising and we hope dating will work well
We are opening a post-doctoral position to study earthquake ruptures and earthquake cycle based on analogue modeling. Join our group that goes from field to image processing, numerical models, all the way to analogue models, to try to understand earthquake cycle. Check out the announcement.
May 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We are opening a post-doctoral position to study earthquake ruptures and earthquake cycle based on analogue modeling. Join our group that goes from field to image processing, numerical models, all the way to analogue models, to try to understand earthquake cycle. Check out the announcement.
Active fault field class in Greece with master students from IPGP. A unique occasion to go from modern earthquake to surface rupture, to uplifted terraces, to plate tectonics in a same place. A must-do iconic trip!
May 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Active fault field class in Greece with master students from IPGP. A unique occasion to go from modern earthquake to surface rupture, to uplifted terraces, to plate tectonics in a same place. A must-do iconic trip!
If you missed the amazing talks at the workshop Lithodef25 last February in IPGP, you can now screen most of them on IPGP YouTube channel. Enjoy!
May 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
If you missed the amazing talks at the workshop Lithodef25 last February in IPGP, you can now screen most of them on IPGP YouTube channel. Enjoy!
Reposted by Yann Klinger
🌍📖 L’IPGP et l'INGV publient The Science and Art of Paleoseismology ! Un ouvrage clé pour mieux comprendre les séismes anciens et affiner l’évaluation des risques sismiques. 🔬📚
🔗 En savoir plus : www.ipgp.fr/actus-et-age...
#IPGP #INGV #Paléosismologie #Sismologie
🔗 En savoir plus : www.ipgp.fr/actus-et-age...
#IPGP #INGV #Paléosismologie #Sismologie
The Science and Art of Paleoseismology : un ouvrage collectif pour enrichir la recherche et l'enseignement - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Comprendre les séismes du passé pour mieux prévoir ceux de demain : tel est l'objectif de la paléosismologie. Cette discipline, qui s'appuie sur l ...
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March 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
🌍📖 L’IPGP et l'INGV publient The Science and Art of Paleoseismology ! Un ouvrage clé pour mieux comprendre les séismes anciens et affiner l’évaluation des risques sismiques. 🔬📚
🔗 En savoir plus : www.ipgp.fr/actus-et-age...
#IPGP #INGV #Paléosismologie #Sismologie
🔗 En savoir plus : www.ipgp.fr/actus-et-age...
#IPGP #INGV #Paléosismologie #Sismologie
You might also be interested by this work by Z. Liu who looked at the evolution of the creep along the East Anatolian Fault during inter-seismic and post-seismic time periods, following the Turkish 2023 earthquake sequence.
Free access here : agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Free access here : agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
March 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
You might also be interested by this work by Z. Liu who looked at the evolution of the creep along the East Anatolian Fault during inter-seismic and post-seismic time periods, following the Turkish 2023 earthquake sequence.
Free access here : agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Free access here : agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Interested in the Tibetan plateau active tectonics? Check out the new paper by Xu Fang et al. just published in J. Struct. Geol. It deals with forefront folding ahead of the Longmen Shan, well know since the 2008 Mw7.8 Wenshuan earthquake.
Here : www.ipgp.fr/~klinger/web...
Here : www.ipgp.fr/~klinger/web...
March 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Interested in the Tibetan plateau active tectonics? Check out the new paper by Xu Fang et al. just published in J. Struct. Geol. It deals with forefront folding ahead of the Longmen Shan, well know since the 2008 Mw7.8 Wenshuan earthquake.
Here : www.ipgp.fr/~klinger/web...
Here : www.ipgp.fr/~klinger/web...
Also for free download the electronic version of the new book about paleoseismology and past earthquakes can be accessed here : link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
February 21, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Also for free download the electronic version of the new book about paleoseismology and past earthquakes can be accessed here : link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
A bit of reading for the coming week-end. Check out our newly published paper about vertical deformation in Tibet by Liu S. et al.
free here: www.ipgp.fr/~klinger/web...
free here: www.ipgp.fr/~klinger/web...
February 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
A bit of reading for the coming week-end. Check out our newly published paper about vertical deformation in Tibet by Liu S. et al.
free here: www.ipgp.fr/~klinger/web...
free here: www.ipgp.fr/~klinger/web...
We knew about off-fault deformation already, but here we see how wide the affected area can be!
Check out the new paper by J. Liu et al. about the Kahramanmaras earthquake, using SAR data, just published : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Check out the new paper by J. Liu et al. about the Kahramanmaras earthquake, using SAR data, just published : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Extensive off-fault damage around the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake surface ruptures - Nature Communications
This study uses satellite synthetic aperture radar images to quantify off-fault damage in the two 2023 Kahramanmaraş (Türkiye) magnitude 7.8 and 7.6 earthquakes. It reveals that off-fault damage consu...
www.nature.com
February 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
We knew about off-fault deformation already, but here we see how wide the affected area can be!
Check out the new paper by J. Liu et al. about the Kahramanmaras earthquake, using SAR data, just published : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Check out the new paper by J. Liu et al. about the Kahramanmaras earthquake, using SAR data, just published : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Beautiful 3D view of the surface rupture from the last event in Southern Tibet
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1.95.66.59/t/3b94a72379...
西藏定日6.8级地震地表破裂带
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January 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Beautiful 3D view of the surface rupture from the last event in Southern Tibet
1.95.66.59/t/3b94a72379...
1.95.66.59/t/3b94a72379...
Reposted by Yann Klinger
Translation:
Title: "We're Working: The Chinese Institute of Geology, Sichuan office, Tibet office United Investigation Team Finds the Dingri Earthquake's Coseismic Vertical Displacement Measures Up to 3 Meters"
Posted by: "China Earthquake Administration"
Title: "We're Working: The Chinese Institute of Geology, Sichuan office, Tibet office United Investigation Team Finds the Dingri Earthquake's Coseismic Vertical Displacement Measures Up to 3 Meters"
Posted by: "China Earthquake Administration"
Surface ruptures were already identified from the Mw 7.1 Xizang Southern Tibetan earthquake. Scarps up to 3 m. See link in Chinese but with photos mp.weixin.qq.com/s/qtB9yU9E6T...
January 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Translation:
Title: "We're Working: The Chinese Institute of Geology, Sichuan office, Tibet office United Investigation Team Finds the Dingri Earthquake's Coseismic Vertical Displacement Measures Up to 3 Meters"
Posted by: "China Earthquake Administration"
Title: "We're Working: The Chinese Institute of Geology, Sichuan office, Tibet office United Investigation Team Finds the Dingri Earthquake's Coseismic Vertical Displacement Measures Up to 3 Meters"
Posted by: "China Earthquake Administration"
⚒️ Looking for a PhD in numerical modeling about earthquake cycle and surface deformation using Discrete Element Modelling?
Join us at IPGP, open position to start next Fall 2025.
Possibilities of funding for master internship prior to PhD if needed.
For information and application, just email me.
Join us at IPGP, open position to start next Fall 2025.
Possibilities of funding for master internship prior to PhD if needed.
For information and application, just email me.
December 16, 2024 at 4:42 PM
⚒️ Looking for a PhD in numerical modeling about earthquake cycle and surface deformation using Discrete Element Modelling?
Join us at IPGP, open position to start next Fall 2025.
Possibilities of funding for master internship prior to PhD if needed.
For information and application, just email me.
Join us at IPGP, open position to start next Fall 2025.
Possibilities of funding for master internship prior to PhD if needed.
For information and application, just email me.
⚒️ If you are puzzled by shallow slip deficit during strike-slip earthquakes, maybe diffuse deformation is part of the answer.
S. Antoine et al. revisited the Ridgecrest earthquake and got ride of almost all of the SSD by better accounting for off fault deformation.
dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024...
S. Antoine et al. revisited the Ridgecrest earthquake and got ride of almost all of the SSD by better accounting for off fault deformation.
dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024...
December 16, 2024 at 11:12 AM
⚒️ If you are puzzled by shallow slip deficit during strike-slip earthquakes, maybe diffuse deformation is part of the answer.
S. Antoine et al. revisited the Ridgecrest earthquake and got ride of almost all of the SSD by better accounting for off fault deformation.
dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024...
S. Antoine et al. revisited the Ridgecrest earthquake and got ride of almost all of the SSD by better accounting for off fault deformation.
dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024...
⚒️ To be added to your winter reading list, N. Pinzon new paper about the Altyn Tagh fault: Earthquakes, offsets, rupture scenario, definitively not a 4 pages paper :)
free acces here : dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024...
free acces here : dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024...
December 11, 2024 at 8:08 AM
⚒️ To be added to your winter reading list, N. Pinzon new paper about the Altyn Tagh fault: Earthquakes, offsets, rupture scenario, definitively not a 4 pages paper :)
free acces here : dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024...
free acces here : dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024...
For my first post on Bluesky, what's better than making the case for our new paper just out in Geophy. Res. Letters.
Evidence for pre-earthquakes damage modulating the 2008 Wenchuan event rupture. Check it out here:
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Evidence for pre-earthquakes damage modulating the 2008 Wenchuan event rupture. Check it out here:
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
December 7, 2024 at 3:52 PM
For my first post on Bluesky, what's better than making the case for our new paper just out in Geophy. Res. Letters.
Evidence for pre-earthquakes damage modulating the 2008 Wenchuan event rupture. Check it out here:
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Evidence for pre-earthquakes damage modulating the 2008 Wenchuan event rupture. Check it out here:
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...