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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

If you work in Active Tectonics in Intraplate settings, submit your work to our EGU26 session TS6.1 Understanding Low-strain and Intraplate regions seismogenic sources and Quaternary deformation, Deadline approaching fast January 15! Keynote Talk by @yklinger.bsky.social ! It will be a great session

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

A Terra tremeu? O que fazer ANTES DURANTE e DEPOIS? Como fazer um KIT de EMERGENCIA? Leia aqui www.aterratreme.pt/wp-content/u...

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

🚨I am very honored to announce that I’m starting as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Lisbon, funded by the European Commission 🚨. I am grateful to NCSU where I honed my skills in Quaternary Geochronology and all my USA colleagues who I work with in Earthquake Geology. ☺️🌍

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Apparently surface rupture during the Myanmar 2025. I'm very surprised by the weak shaking along the rupture. I'm not sure if this is the main rupture (I would say no - nonetheless, VERY COOL). Author unknown, location Thazi (to be confirmed)

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

A small correction, the Sparta earthquake was not in the southern Appalachian zone, was just south of the Giles Seismic Zone (south Virginia) see image from Neves et al., 2024

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Not attending #EGU25 but I'm a co-author in a few abstracts. I highlight this poster presented by PhD candidate Dennis Wolf. Check it out Friday, 2 May in the morning Hall X2 | X2.52. He is doing a great work! (Next year, I will be at EGU, I promise!)

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Another video from the Myanmar Mw 7.7 quake. Now we see the railway tracks (Pyinmana, Myanmar) bent and severely deformed.

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

since we are all doing this, here is my proof of defending a Holy Trinity

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Absolutely amazing video. Direct displacement of a drainage/channel: it is possible to see a right lateral displacement of the thalweg of about 1.5 to 2 m. It is also possible to see the fault plane exposed! Credit: okarun011 on TikTok

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Regarding the Mw 7.7 Myanmar earthquake: to be confirmed, but it seems the segment that ruptured was at least partially a "seismic gap". The 1st image is figure 1 from Xiong et al 2017 doi.org/10.1002/2017... and the 2nd image is from Hurukawa & Maung 2011 doi.org/10.1029/2010...

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

In my case, it should be: “how is this quartz-rich??? There is cleavage!!! How do they expect me to extract 10Be from this piece of &$&@?!?” And then thinking about hitting them saying “sampling MATTERS! Learn your f$& mineralogy and petrology!” There! Stop complaining about geochronology!

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I do remember learning that the K-Feldspar was pink.

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Consider attending IAGA/ IASPEI 2025 in Lisbon. It has a really good scientific program and it is in Lisbon. Do I need to say more? iaga-iaspei-2025.org Abstracts deadline March 12!

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

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...

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

REMINDER: if attending SSA next April @seismosocam.bsky.social , consider our session Deadline now extended to January 14!

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

🚨🚨If attending SSA consider submitting to our session Earthquake Shaking and the Geologic Record: Triggered Phenomena and Preserved Fragile Geologic Features ⛰️🌊

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Tsunami Alert was canceled. Still, be careful with anomalous rip currents

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

If you are in the US West Coast LEAVE THE COASTLINE IMMEDIATELY and Go to Higher Ground!

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

If you are planning to attend AGU24, please consider attending our session on surface process dating, Monday 9th. We have a very nice lineup of speakers and posters, eager to discuss advancements and their research! Conveners are Marine Frouin, Nathan Brown, myself and Svenja Riedesel! #AGU24

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This is the question I get the most during this season "How is Thanksgiving celebrated in your country?" We don't!! Inherited from pagan celebrations, Europeans celebrate the Harvest season, at the end of the harvest season, in late September. That's what we are thankful for.

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

É JÁ AMANHÃ!!!! Aprende e treina como agir em caso de sismos e tsunami! vai a www.aterratreme.pt

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

well, it has been some months that I have not been here. Have not been much on social media. I think I am leaving the other place for good. If you know me, or if you are into earthquakes, paleoseismology, active tectonics, Q Geology, just say something. Trying to find familiar faces 👍

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 15/07/2024

ok, the % is small, but there is this as well

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

Targeting 10Be samples to be measured in a AMS… the final step of a long process that starts when you collect a sample in the field. Now you have the BeO2, and need to measure it to estimate your date.

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

Not attending AGU but I do have a poster there presented by co-author/mentor Tom Pratt. These are preliminary results from using Precariously Balanced Rocks analysis to estimate past ground motions in the greater New York area applied to seismic hazards. Curious? Check out Poster # S431-043

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

There is still time to submit to this Research Topic "Coastal Paleo Landforms and Deposits Applied to Tectonics, Eustatism and Paleoclimate" www.frontiersin.org/research-top... . Please reach out if you need any clarification or assistance.

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Totally forgot about this moment, some years ago! When your cat is a tectonic geomorphologist who helps you dig active fault traces in the desert! Or "Maria, San Andreas is not a litter for you!!"

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Yesterday was the anniversary of the Mw 7.3 Pleasant Valley, the largest normal faulting earthquake in the USA. We dug this fault at multiple locations, found multiple earthquakes, and we are dating also the alluvial fans that are displaced. Results should come out within the next year.

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

New paper, I have a very minor role on it, but very thankful for the opportunity. Vadman et al identified and mapped a portion of a 1-2 ka old paleo- multi fault rupture between Landers and Hector Mine, rupturing partially along Calico and likely a Mw 7.4. pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geospher...

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

Muito importante na fase pré-sismo é ter um Kit de emergência para ajudar a sobrevivência em caso de disrupção de vias de ajudas. Ter um kit ajuda-o a si, à sua familia, aos seus vizinhos. Também é útil no caso de inundações, tempestades, etc. aterratreme.pt e www.deco.proteste.pt/casa-energia...

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

Sismos ocorrem em todo o mundo, umas zonas mais, outras menos. Em Portugal, não podemos viver em receio constante. Ninguém pode prever quando, mas sabemos ONDE pode acontecer. O MELHOR é estar preparado, saber o que fazer e prevenir. Para saber mais Consultem aterratreme.pt

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

For sure the causative structure is related to Atlas, however, the preliminary focal mechanism suggests a N122 trending structure, an oblique structure to the main Atlas front. Looking at the satellite imagery, there is a subtle but visible lineament. Cannot find literature on this.

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

Mw 6.8 in Morocco, reverse, epicenter NE to the Mw 5.9 1960 Agadir location, and away from main cities. This EQ was strong, shallow-ish, and potentially hazardous. My heart is with the Morocco people. Was large enough to be felt in Lisbon, Portugal and southern Spain. Insha'Allah, all will be well.

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

Found some old posters and decided to hang them in my office. Yes, evidence all around. This is me. Who else studies in Portugal and Sparta, NC?? lol

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

That moment when you realize people don't know Portuguese is the most spoken language in the southern hemisphere...

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

3 years ago, 4 days after the earthquake, the 1st evidence associating tectonic faulting to the Mw 5.1 surface rupture and beautiful and small scarp. No mowing yet and little we knew then about the Little River fault at Sparta, NC.

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

Introducing myself in the Blue Sky - I'm Paula, I'm a geologist who loves earthquakes and digging them up. I'm a researcher in Active Tectonics, and I like studying earthquakes, and deformed landscapes, especially if they have marine terraces (old surfer habits never die). Portuguese native!

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