The last day of the PATA 2026 field trip took us to the La Laguna trench site, which has evidence for five events including 1976

#patadays Day 3. Another spectacular evidence of Motagua fault, in a complex structural bending at La Laguna. Trastensive cinematic, well expressed in a paleoseismological trench.

🚨 New map redraws our understanding of how continents deform 🚨 We are excited to share ground-breaking work led by COMET Co-Director @timwrightleeds.bsky.social, published in @science.org. Read more: comet.nerc.ac.uk/new-map-redraws-our-understanding-of-how-continents-deform/ #Tectonics #Research

#patadays Day 2. The rupture of 1976 eq. on the Motagua fault, and his offset along a canal

Day 1 of the PATA field trip led the participants to a slip rate site and a trench on the Motagua Fault. Today we will see earthquake damage to Maya ruins at Quirigua.

The pre-meeting field trip of the 2026 PATA Days starts from Antigua Guatemala with 40+ people from 15 countries. Three days of paleoseismology, archaeoseismology, and active faults ahead of us.

That's not exactly the spot I'd have chosen if I were a tree. But little do I know for I am not a tree.

Volcano Fuego in Guatemala has some minor activity, probably excited to welcome PATA Days participants from all around the world, soon.

After discovering an exceptionally well-preserved ant that is around 40 million years old in one piece of Goethe's amber collection, the team at #UniJena was able to capture detailed 3D-images of the ant and gained new insights into the extinct species. ➡️ www.uni-jena.de/en/382833/exc…

📢Hot off press: Pitfalls of multiplied 3D landforms projection Why #mapping still matters in the #LiDAR-dominated times? We published some thoughts, tips and tricks on #cave mapping using the example of >10 km long, >1km deep Gamssteig Cave System in the Göll Massif #Alps doi.org/10.5038/1827...