Earthquake Geology and Seismic Hazards: From Earthquake Mapping of Historical and Prehistoric Earthquakes to Paleoseismology

This special volume follows a series of special publications (8th in a row) in journals of the citation index that originated from the INQUA focus group on Active Tectonics, Paleoseismology, Earthquake Geology and Seismic hazards and the corresponding INQUA – PATA days (Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics, Archaeoseismology) workshops all around the world (Reicherter et al., 2009, Silva et al., 2011, Grützner et al., 2013, Vött et al., 2013, Papanikolaou et al., 2015, Blumetti et al., 2017, McCalpin and Reicherter, 2019). This volume hosts a selection of manuscripts following a meticulous peer-review process from the 2018 PATA days in Posidi in Northern Greece and the INQUA Congress in Dublin in 2019. The main scope of the focus group, which has more than 600 members from 57 countries, is to increase the understanding of past earthquakes and future seismic risks by investigating the Quaternary geology of seismically active areas.