I just revived my blog, which was a little sleepy for a while, with a new post about the first ever described surface rupture (that of the 1891 Nobi Mw~7.5 earthquake in central Japan). 1/n

The 1891 fault rupture was indeed perfectly described and interpreted by Bunjiro Kotô in a 1893 article. It is admirably imaged by a B&W photograph in Kotô's article, and by this delicate anonymous watercolour painting 👇🏼, perhaps the first artist view of an active tectonic fault.

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My Tectoldies blog is about “the beauty of tectonics – the art of geological sections & other tectonic sketches.” Feel free to explore and comment previous posts. I'll toot about some of them soon.

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Link to the whatercolour painting of the Midori fault scarp at Kyoto University rare materials digital archive:
rmda.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/it

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