Evidence of a large “prehistorical” earthquake during Inca times? New insights from an indigenous chronicle (Cusco, Peru)

The ‘lost’ islands of Cardigan Bay, Wales, UK: insights into the post-glacial evolution of some Celtic coasts of northwest Europe

“…Geomythology as a sub-discipline was formally defined by Vitaliano (1968), who stated that geomythology "seeks to find the real geologic event underlying a myth or legend to which it has given rise; thus … [helping to] … convert mythology back into history" (p. 5, see also Burbery 2021). A number of geological and geographical studies have included a geomythological dimension, such as Carson and Athens (2007), Cashman and Cronin (2008), Cashman and Giordano (2008), Piccardi et al (2008), Rappenglück et al (2010), Nunn (2014a, b, 2016, Walsh et al (2017), Helm et al (2019), Liritzis et al (2019), Combey et al (2020), Wilkie et al (2020), Stewart (2021) along with a collection of papers published in a Geological Society of London Special Publication entitled Myth and Geology 5 (Piccardi and Masse 2007). The present study employs this approach to identify sources and extract coastal geomorphological information from medieval literary sources and modern folklore traditions to compare with other evidence.…”

Seismic Numerical Analysis of an Inca Stone Wall in Sacsayhuaman Using Rigid Body Dynamics within a Finite Element Framework

“…2). However, this is just a hypothesis of these structural damages [48]. Unfortunately, these earthquakes were not recorded, so how the terrain behaved during those years is unknown.…”

Monumental Inca remains and past seismic disasters: A relational database to support archaeoseismological investigations and cultural heritage preservation in the Andes

“…As various Andean regions distant from the subduction trench and as explained in 3.1, the Cusco area suffers from a poor understanding of its crustal seismicity. The concise historical catalog (Silgado Ferro, 1978;Tavera et al, 2016) available, coupled with still scarce paleoseismological studies (Benavente Escobar et al, 2013;Cabrera and Sébrier, 1998;Palomino Tacuri, 2020;Rosell Guevara, 2018), does not allow to assess properly the return period of the numerous active faults of the region, which triggered damaging earthquakes in historical (1650,1950,1986) and pre-historical times (Combey et al, 2020). We decided thus to develop the RISC project, whose objective is to improve the seismic hazard assessment by implementing the first large archaeoseismological survey in South America.…”