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Although seismic activity is documented in the Inner Carpathians, the record of paleoseismic events is very sparse due to both erosion and the long period between earthquakes that can leave traces on the ground surface. Dr. Jacek Szczygie\u0142 and with team have documented such traces in the Dem\u00e4novsk\u00e1 Cave in the Low Tatra Mts. Thanks to uranium-series dating of the damaged speleothems, five events of the cave cutting fault reactivation during the last 0.5 million years have been determined. According to the modeling, the most likely source of the earthquakes was the Sub-Tatric fault. The research, conducted with geologists from ING UJ and Slovakia, was published in Tectonophysics.<\/p>\n
Szczygie\u0142, J.<\/strong>, Gradzi\u0144ski, M., Bella, P., Hercman, H., Littva, J., Mendecki, M.J.<\/strong>, Sala, P., Wr\u00f3blewski, W., 2021. Quaternary faulting in the Western Carpathians: insights into paleoseismology from cave deformations and damaged speleothems (Dem\u00e4nov\u00e1 Cave System, Low Tatra Mts)<\/em>. Tectonophysics 820, 229111. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.tecto.2021.229111<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”4510″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text] Although seismic activity is documented in the Inner Carpathians, the record of paleoseismic events is very sparse due to both erosion and the long period between earthquakes that can leave traces on the ground surface. Dr. Jacek Szczygie\u0142 and with team have documented such traces in the Dem\u00e4novsk\u00e1 Cave in the Low Tatra […]<\/p>\n