| Session Details | |
| Section | SE - Solid Earth Sciences |
| Session Title | Paleoseismology, Active Fault Studies and Earthquake Hazard Assessment |
| Main Convener | Dr. Javed Malik (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India) |
| Co-convener(s) | Prof. Kenji Satake (University of Tokyo, Japan) |
| Session Description | Paleoseismology has evolved in several decades. This approach has helped the scientific community to identify the historical and pre-historical earthquakes signature preserved in historical and geological records, and has been commonly adopted in many countries in Asia which have experienced several earthquake disasters. This session solicits contributions on historical earthquake studies such as collection of historical data from archives, establishment of seismic intensity scales, compilation of historical earthquake catalogues, and geological studies such as trenching surveys across active faults, identifications of liquefaction features, and searching for evidences of such catastrophic events at archaeological sites or tsunami deposits in coastal environments. Along with these, contributions on behaviour of fault segments, pattern of deformation, recurrence interval and seismic hazard analysis such as for long- and mid-term earthquake forecasts, including the probabilistic earthquake forecasting are also expected. |