Schedule
Series I of the Online Lectures focuses on Fault Recognition and Characterization and comprises six thematic sessions, each lasting up to three hours. The sessions will take place between September and early October 2026. The series is designed to prepare participants for the Hands-on Field Workshop on Earthquake Geology and Paleoseismology. The lectures will be delivered by IDASH experts and other specialists in the field. The detailed programme for Series I, including dates and times (CEST -Central European Summer Time) is provided below.
Series I - Fault Recognition and Characterization
SESSION 1 | SEISMOTECTONICS OF THE WESTERN BALKANS AND LOCAL EARTHQUAKES
September 3, 2026 · 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Chaired by F.R. Cinti
Lecture 1 - Regional Geology of the Western Balkans: Geodynamics, Tectonics, and Crustal Evolution
Mattija Vukovski (Croatian Geological Survey)
Lecture 2 - General view of active geodetic deformation of the Western Balkans
Nicola D’Agostino (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia)
Lecture 3 - The 2020 Petrinja earthquake (Croatia): seismological aspects
Josip Stipcevic and Marijan Herak (University of Zagreb)
Lecture 4 - The 2020 Petrinja earthquake (Croatia): geological and geodetic deformation
Stéphane Baize (Autorité de sûreté nucléaire et de radioprotection) and
Maxime Henriquet (Université Côte d’Azur)
Lecture 5 - The 1969 Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Sanja Tucikesic (University of Banja Luka)
Lecture 6 - The 1979 Bar (Montenegro) earthquake
Milena Tomanovic (Institute of Hydrometeorology and Seismology)
SESSION 2 | EARTHQUAKE GEOLOGY. SEISMOGENIC FAULT RECOGNITION: TECTONIC GEOMORPHOLOGY, GEOPHYSICS, GEODESY
September 7, 2026 · 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Chaired by D. Pantosti
Lecture 1 - Tectonic geomorphology of active faults
Petra Jamšek Rupnik (Geological Survey of Slovenia)
Lecture 2 - Off-fault tectonic landscape
Pierfrancesco Burrato (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia)
Lecture 3 - Geophysical fault investigation
Lovro Rupar (Geological Survey of Slovenia)
Lecture 4 - Intro on GNSS for fault characterization
Nicola D’Agostino (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia)
SESSION 3 | EARTHQUAKE GEOLOGY. COSEISMIC EFFECTS ON NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, MAPPING, INVENTORIES
September 16, 2026 · 2:00–5:00 p.m.
Chaired by P. Jamšek Rupnik
Lecture 1 - Overview of coseismic environmental effects
Daniela Pantosti (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia)
Lecture 2 - Surface faulting around the world
Stéphane Baize (Autorité de sûreté nucléaire et de radioprotection) and
Francesca R. Cinti (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia)
Lecture 3 - Liquefaction effects: phenomena and geotechnical investigation
Sara Amoroso (University of Chieti-Pescara)
Lecture 4 - Cases of post-earthquake geological surveys
Stefano Pucci (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia)
Lecture 5 - Earthquake, fault and geodetic datasets in Western Balkans
Branko Kordić (Croatian Geological Survey) and
Sanja Tucikesic (University of Banja Luka)
SESSION 4 | PARAMETERS TO CHARACTERIZE SEISMOGENIC FAULTS. FAULT BEHAVIOR IN TIME
September 23, 2026 · 2:00–5:00 p.m.
Chaired by L. Rupar
Lecture 1 - Fault parameters: meaning and calculation principles
Pierfrancesco Burrato (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia)
Lecture 2 - Overview of Paleoseismology
Daniela Pantosti (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia)
Lecture 3 - Geodetic approaches to estimates of fault slip and seismic hazard
Nicola D’Agostino (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia)
Lecture 4 - Earthquake recurrence models, Seismic cycles, and Fault interactions
Bruno Pace (University of Chieti-Pescara)
Lecture 5 - Earthquake cycling simulator
Octavi Goméz Novell (Instituto Geológico y Minero de España)
SESSION 5 | GROUND-BASED AND UAV-BASED PHOTOGRAMMETRY: A HIGH-RESOLUTION MAPPING TOOL FOR EARTHQUAKE GEOLOGY AND PALEOSEISMOLOGY
October 1, 2026 · 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Chaired by P. Boncio
Session curated by B. Kordić (Geological Survey of Croatia, Croatia) and S. Pucci (National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Italy)
Lecture 1 - Terrestrial Photogrammetry for Earthquake Geology
Lecture 2 - UAS Photogrammetry for Active Fault Mapping
Lecture 3 - Processing Workflow and Structure-from-Motion (SfM)
Lecture 4 - Photogrammetric Products and Quantitative Analysis for Earthquake Geology and Paleoseismology
SESSION 6 | PRACTICE TIME. HANDS-ON FIELD WORKSHOP INTRODUCTION AND QUESTION TIME
October 7, 2026 · 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Chaired by F.R. Cinti
Lecture 1 - Practice time: exercises and examples of fault parameters calculation from geomorphic and paleoseismological trenching data
Pierfrancesco Burrato and Francesca R. Cinti (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia)
QUESTIONS TIME
Lecture 2 - Introduction to the Hands-on field Workshop on earthquake geology and paleoseismology
Josipa Maslač (Croatian Geological Survey), Petra Jamšek Rupnik (Geological Survey of Slovenia), and Marko Špelić (Croatian Geological Survey)